Improving Children’s Health in North Carolina

Healthy children are critical to North Carolina’s future. When health needs go unaddressed, they not only can result in high-cost emergency medical care, but generate broader costs. When families experience health needs and can’t work or attend school, entire communities suffer. This is why it is important for North Carolina to improve its health outcomes for our children. Currently the state ranks 33rd for overall child well-being in the nation according to data collected in the 2017 Kids Count Data Book.