Strengths:

• High rate of high school graduation
• Low infant mortality rate
• Low percentage of children in poverty
• Low violent crime rate

 

Challenges:

• Moderate prevalence of binge drinking
• Low per capita public health funding

 

Highlights:

• In the past ten years, the rate of uninsured population increased from 8.5 percent to 11.3 percent of the population.
• In the past year, the incidence of infectious disease decreased from 6.8 to 5.5 cases per 100,000.
• New Hampshire has one of the lowest sedentary lifestyle rates in the U.S. at 22.5 percent of the population, with 234,000 sedentary adults.
• Since 1990, the infant mortality rate decreased from 8.4 to 4.4 deaths per 1,000 live births and is the lowest among all states.
• Air pollution decreased in the past five years, from 9.1 to 7.5 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter.

 

Disparities:

• In New Hampshire, obesity is more prevalent among non-Hispanic whites at 26.2 percent than Hispanic at 21.0 percent.

 

State Health Department Web Site: www.dhhs.state.nh.us