Humphreys County Fact Sheet

CHART Priority: 1 (2011-2012)

CHART Priority levels (1, 2, or 3) are based five health indicators. For more information about CHART and CHART Priority counties, see http://www.mississippifirst.org/CHART-initiative.

District Adoption of Sex Ed Policies

Humphreys County School District - CHART Abstinence-Plus

2009 Teen Birth Rates (per 1,000 teenage girls)

2009 Teen Birth Ranking (ages 10-19): 1st 

Source:

*Mississippi Department of Health: http://msdh.ms.gov/phs/2009/Summary/teenc09.pdf

**MS Teen Birth Data was taken from (Table A4, Pg. 10) of the Mississippi Department of Health's 'Vital Statistics-2009' Report: http://msdh.ms.gov/phs/2009/Bulletin/vr2009.pdf

^National Birth Statistics. Table 2, Pg. 8. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_03.pdf

^^"Kids Count: Data Center": http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/stateprofile.aspx?state=MS&group=All&loc=3985&dt=1%2c3%2c2%2c4