Strengths:

• High immunization coverage
• Low occupational fatalities rate
• Ready access to early prenatal care

 

Challenges:

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

 

Highlights:

• In the past five years, obesity increased from 26.2 percent to 31.7 percent of the adult population. Now 3.1 million Michigan adults are obese.
• In the past five years, the violent crime rate decreased from 554 to 490 offenses per 100,000 population.
• In the past ten years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 13.8 percent to 20.4 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past year, diabetes increased from 9.3 percent to 10.1 percent of the population, with 1.0 million diabetics in the state.
• While smoking has decreased from 24.1 percent to 18.9 percent of the adult population in the past ten years, 1.9 million adults still smoke in Michigan.

 

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