Two health reports on North Carolina released

The NC Institute of Medicine has recently posted to its website the final report of a task force which has been studying the issue of low health literacy skills in North Carolina. For a description of the project and link to the report, click here. The report discusses the problems associated with low health literacy and makes recommendations for addressing this.

Another report that has just been posted on the NCIOM website (http://www.nciom.org/index.html) is the 2007 North Carolina Child Health Report Card. This report highlights data and trends for children in North Carolina. For example, in 2006, 13.2% of NC children age 0-17 years were uninsured, a 20% increase from 2001.