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Michigan

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Strengths:

• High immunization coverage
• High use of early prenatal care
• Low occupational fatalities rate

Challenges:

• High prevalence of obesity
• High violent crime rate
• Low per capita public health funding

Highlights:

• While smoking has decreased from 24.1 percent to 18.9 percent of the adult population in the past ten years, more than 1.4 million adults still smoke in Michigan.
• In the past year, diabetes increased from 9.3 percent to 10.1 percent of the population; 761,000 adults now have diabetes.
• In the past five years, the violent crime rate decreased from 554 to 490 offenses per 100,000 population.
• In the past five years, obesity increased from 26.2 percent to 31.7 percent of the adult population. Now nearly 2.4 million Michigan adults are obese.
• In the past ten years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 13.8 percent to 20.4 percent of persons u nder age 18.

Health Disparities:

In Michigan, obesity is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 41.1 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 29.1 percent. Diabetes also varies by race and ethnicity in the state; 13.8 percent of non-Hispanic blacks have diabetes compared to 8.6 percent of non-Hispanic whites and 10.7 percent Hispanics.

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