HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act
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Several demographic variables affect the health of this age group. Four variables athat are the most important to community health are: the number of young people, their living arrangements, their employment status, their access to health care. 10 to 24 year olds made up over a fifth of the us population. This population has increased since 2000 with the greatest increase in the young adult (20-24) age group. The proportion of adolescents and young adults in the general population will continue to increase and at the same time the racial and ethnic makeup will become increasingly more diverse. In 2012: 55% of adolescents were non-hispanic white: estimated that in 2050: this percentage will decrease to 44% 2010 more than a quarter of all children in the us lived in single-parent families. More black children (53%) lived in a single-parent home than did white children (23%) or.
