Key Sources of Statistics

The Center for Health and Environmental Statistics within KDHE provides reliable public health statistics. From their Web site, you can find teen pregnancy statistics, teen pregnancy rates by county, and other interesting information. The links below take you to reports from the Center that are especially relevant to teen sexuality and the need for abstinence until marriage education in Kansas.

Kansas Teenage Pregnancy Summaries – The Center's Office of Health Assessment annually publishes a teenage pregnancy report, summarizing data collected from vital records on fetal deaths, abortions, and live births. The total of these three elements represents the number of pregnancies. Reports from 1995 to the most current year are available at this link.

Annual Summary of Vital Statistics – The 2004 Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics is the Department's report on births, deaths, marriages and marriage dissolutions during calendar year 2004. The section on Pregnancy Outcomes is of particular interest to parents of teens. This part of the Annual Summary has information on age of mother’s at a child’s birth and the age of fathers when the mother of a new baby is between 10 and 19 years of age. Pregnancy Outcomes also discusses prenatal care and other health issues important to teen parents.

Kansas Information for Communities – The Kansas Information for Communities (KIC) system gives users the chance to prepare their own queries for vital event and other health care data. The queries designed into this system will answer many health data requests. KIC programs available at this link will allow you to generate your own table for specific statistics, including year of occurrence, age, rate, sex, and county.

Another interesting Web site for Kansas statistics is the Kansas HIV/STD Section of the Bureau of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention. This is the place to learn about the problem of sexually transmitted infections in Kansas. Two reports are especially interesting to people concerned with the sexual health of teenagers.

Biannual STD Reports – This link provides access to reports which outline the number and location of reportable sexually transmitted infections (diseases) in Kansas. “Reportable” means that health departments and private physicians are required by law to report to state agencies when they diagnose the infection or disease. The only reportable sexually transmitted infections are Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, so other infections that are considered “epidemic” such as human papilloma virus and Herpes are not included in these reports.

HIV-AIDS Case Reporting, Surveillance, and Epidemiology – This link will allow you to access the epidemiological profile of HIV/AIDS cases in Kansas – which simply means you can learn about the number and ages of people in Kansas living with HIV or AIDS, where these problems are most prevalent, and other information about those who suffer with HIV/AIDS. For example, in 2003, 22 of 152 diagnoses of HIV were in people under 24 years of age.