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Under a new threshold, the number of Pa. children with high lead levels is expected to almost double

Posted on March 15, 2022March 17, 2022

Data from the 2020 Childhood Lead Surveillance report from the Pennsylvania DOH showed the rate of children with elevated blood lead levels to be about 4.65. This is a rate two times higher than children poisoned in Flint, Mich., at the peak of the city’s crisis, according to a recent statement from the Lead-Free Promise […]

Report: Pa. kids show elevated blood levels at more than twice the national rate | Wednesday Coffee

Posted on September 30, 2021October 5, 2021

An alarming 5 percent of Pennsylvania children have elevated levels of lead in their blood at more than two times the national rate, a newly released study has found. The research, from JAMA Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association, puts Pennsylvania in the company of just six states nationwide with such dangerously high blood […]

Press Release: Pa’s uninsured rate increased, 8th highest number of uninsured kids in the nation

Posted on November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

Pa’s uninsured rate increased, 8th highest number of uninsured kids in the nation Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (PPC), the only statewide advocacy organization with a public policy agenda that spans the life of a child prenatally through adulthood, today released the 2020 State of Children’s Health Care Report. “No child should be without health insurance […]