CHART Priority: 1

CHART priority levels (1, 2, or 3) are based on eight health indicators.

  • 5-year average (2018-2022) teen pregnancy rate for females ages 15-19
  • Most recent year (2022) teen pregnancy rate for females ages 15-19
  • 5-year average (2018-2022) teen pregnancy rate for females ages 10-14
  • Most recent year (2022) teen pregnancy rate for females ages 10-14
  • 5-year average (2018-2022) chlamydia infection rate
  • 5-year average (2018-2022) gonorrhea infection rate
  • 5-year average (2018-2022) HIV prevalence rate
  • 5-year average (2018-2022) syphilis infection rate

A county with significantly high rates in three or more of the health indicators qualifies as Priority 1.  A county with significantly high rates in one or two of the health indicators qualifies as Priority 2.  A county with significantly high rates in none of the health indicators qualifies as Priority 3.

Click on the link for more information about CHART and Lawrence County.

District Adoption of Sex Ed Policies

School District Sex Education Policy Adopted Sex Education Curriculum
Lawrence County Abstinence-Only Choosing the Best

County Teen Health Data

2022 Teen Birth Rates (per 1,000 females)
Age Group Lawrence* Mississippi* US^ MS County Ranking (out of 82 counties)
Females age 15-19 59.7 26.4 13.6 5
Females age 10-14 0.9 0.2 0.2 7
2022 Sexually-Transmitted Infection Rates (per 100,000 residents)
STI Lawrence** Mississippi** US** MS County Ranking (out of 82 counties)
Chlamydia 418.3 928.2 588.7 73
Gonorrhea 281.7 441.7 231.6 58
HIV 397.6 401.2 386.6 25
Syphilis 34.2 36.9 21.1 31

Sources

*Mississippi Department of Health; Mississippi Statistically Automated Health Resource System; Mississippi, 2022: https://mstahrs.msdh.ms.gov/

**Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NCHHSTP AtlasPlus. https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/about/atlasplus.html. Accessed 2024.

^Osterman MJK, Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Driscoll AK, Valenzuela CP. Births: Final data for 2022. National vital statistics report; vol 73, no 2. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf