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Unintentional injury deaths in Oklahoma in 2012, 1 out of every 16 deaths in the state that year. The leading causes of unintentional injury death include poisonings, motor vehicle crashes, and falls.
Source: State of the State’s Health 2014.
How much Oklahoma put in a fund to reimburse uncompensated care at community health centers this year — less than one-third of what they said they will need, and even less than the $3.12 million FY 2014 funding that ran out before half the year was over.
Source: Oklahoma Policy Institute
Poverty rate for Native Americans in Oklahoma in 2013, 6.1 percentage points higher than the state as a whole.
Source: Census Bureau via TalkPoverty.org.
Percentage of Oklahoma nursing homes with “severe deficiencies,” defined as violations of state or federal law that resulted in resident injury, abuse, neglect or death.
Source: Families for Better Care
The poverty rate for women in Oklahoma, 1.5 percentage points higher than the state as a whole.
Percentage of Oklahomans in poverty in 2013, according to data released by the Census Bureau yesterday.
Source: US Census Bureau.
Percentage of Oklahoma pregnant women who receive first trimester prenatal care. The national average is 73.1 percent.
Number of the Oklahoma children whose parents lacked secure employment in 2012, 30 percent of all kids in the state.
Percentage of Oklahoma women killed by men in 2012 whose killer was someone they knew. A new report ranks Oklahoma 3rd in the US for the rate of women killed by men.
Source: Violence Policy Center
Canadian County’s ranking out of 3,135 U.S. counties in a New York Times analysis of the least and most difficult places to live in the country, the best ranking of any Oklahoma county.
Source: The New York Times via NewsOK.
