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Table 12–8 Comparison of Selected Health Status Indicators—All Races and Hispanic or Latino: 2007
Health Indicator All Races Hispanic or Latino
Crude birth rate per 1,000 population by race of mother
14.3 23.4
Percentage of live births to women receiving first-trimester prenatal care
67.5 56.1
Percentage of live births to women receiving third-trimester prenatal care or no prenatal care
8.4 12.9
Percentage of live births to teenage childbearing women—under 18
3.4 5.3
Percentage of low birth weight per live births <2,500 grams
8.22 6.93
Infant mortality per 1,000 live births (2006) 6.7 5.4 Cancer—all sites per 100,000 population 446.7 326.5 Lung cancer incidence per 100,000 population Men: 65.4 38.0
Women: 47.4 22.5 Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 122.5 83.8 Prostate cancer incidence per 100,000 158.3 116.2 Male death rates from suicide, all ages, age adjusted per 100,000 resident population
11.3 10.1
Male death rates from homicide, all ages, age adjusted per 100,000 resident population
6.1 11.2
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services & National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2010: With Special Feature on Death and Dying. Hyattsville, MD. 2011: Author, pp. 102, 106, 107, 110, 124, 137, 180–181, 184–185, and 204. Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf, December 11, 2011.
Table 12–9 Comparison of the 10 Leading Causes of Death for Hispanic or Latino Americans and for All Persons: 2007