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 Washington County.

District Adoption of Sex Ed Policies

School District Sex Education Policy Adopted Sex Education Curriculum
Hollandale Abstinence-Only Choosing the Best
Leland CHART Abstinence-Plus Draw the Line/Respect the Line & Reducing the Risk
Western Line CHART Abstinence-Plus Draw the Line/Respect the Line & Reducing the Risk
Greenville CHART Abstinence-Plus Draw the Line/Respect the Line & Reducing the Risk

County Teen Health Data

2022 Teen Birth Rates (per 1,000 females)
Age Group Washington* Mississippi* US^ MS County Ranking (out of 82 counties)
Females age 15-19 36.7 26.4 13.6 29
Females age 10-14 0 0.2 0.2 78
2022  Sexually-Transmitted Infection Rates (per 100,000 residents)
STI Washington** Mississippi** US** MS County Ranking (out of 82 counties)
Chlamydia 1277.2 928.2 588.7 12
Gonorrhea 693.9 441.7 231.6 6
HIV 555.7 401.2 386.6 7
Syphilis 42.3 36.9 21.1 25

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