News Advisory: Launch of DiversityData.Org and Briefing on Harvard School of Public Health Report 'Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing American Children'
Posted on: Monday, 22 January 2007, 12:00 CST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following advisory was issued today by the Harvard School of Public Health:
On Jan. 24, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Health and with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will launch a Web site (http://diversitydata.org/) that brings together a wide range of indicators of how people of different racial/ethnic backgrounds live in U.S. metropolitan areas. The site includes comparative data about housing, neighborhood conditions, residential integration and education, and goes beyond many similar Web sites by including information on health factors such as disability rates, health insurance, births to teenager mothers, births to unmarried mothers, prenatal care, smoking during pregnancy, preterm births and low birthweight rates.
*The launch will be accompanied by the online publication of the first report in a series of data analyses drawn from DiversityData.org. The report, "Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing American Children," examines the well-being of children in the 100 largest metropolitan areas -- where about two-thirds of American children live. The report scores metropolitan areas for the living conditions they provide to white, black, Hispanic and Asian children based on indicators of health, family income, home ownership, residential and school segregation and neighborhood and school socioeconomic environment. Using a summary measure of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions, the report shows the metropolitan areas with worst and best neighborhood environments for children of different racial/ethnic groups.
The event will feature project directors Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Associate Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH, and Barbara Krimgold, Director of Kellogg Scholars and Fellows Programs at the Center for the Advancement of Health.
WHAT: Launch of a new Web site, http://diversitydata.org/, and briefing on the Harvard School of Public Health report, "Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing American Children" WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 24 from 8:30-11 a.m. WHERE: First Amendment Room, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. R.S.V.P.: Center for the Advancement of Health, diversitydata@cfah.org
CONTACT: Christina Roache of Harvard School of Public Health, +1-617-432-6052, or croache@hsph.harvard.edu
Harvard School of Public Health
CONTACT: Christina Roache of Harvard School of Public Health,+1-617-432-6052, or croache@hsph.harvard.edu
Web site: http://diversitydata.org/http://www.cfah.org/http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/
Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire
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