Strengths:

• Low occupational fatalities rate
• Low prevalence of sedentary lifestyle
• Low rate of uninsured population

 

Challenges:

• High prevalence of obesity
• High prevalence of smoking
• Low immunization coverage

 

Highlights:

• Although Michigan has one of the lower rates of sedentary lifestyle in the U.S., there are more than 1.7 million adults living a sedentary lifestyle and almost 2.4 million obese adults in the state.
• In the past five years, air pollution decreased from 12.9 to 9.5 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter.
• In the past five years, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 77.6 to 69.8 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees
• In the past ten years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 12.4 percent to 22.7 percent of persons under age 18.
• Last year, 92.9 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months received immunizations, this year it is 87.0 percent.

 

Disparities:

• In Michigan, obesity is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 42.1 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 29.2 percent; and sedentary lifestyle is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 29.6 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 22.7 percent.

 

State Health Department Web Site: www.michigan.gov/mdch