Children under age 7 screened for lead poisoning in Louisiana
Why This Indicator Matters
Definitions:
number - the number of children who received a blood test for lead poisoning
percent - the number of children who received a blood test for lead poisoning per 100 children under the age of seven in the population
Data Source:
Louisiana Department of Health, Louisiana Healthy Homes and Childhood Lead Prevention Program (LHHCLPPP), by special request
Percentages for 2011 were calculated by Agenda for Children using population estimates available through "Easy Access to Juvenile Populations: 1990-2019." Available: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezapop/
Footnotes: Data on the parish in which a child lives was missing for many records, and was thus unreportable. As a result, the statewide data is larger than the sum of the parish-level data.