Strengths:

• High immunization coverage
• Low occupational fatalities rate
• Moderate rate of high school graduation

 

Challenges:

• Low per capita public health funding
• High levels of air pollution
• High prevalence of smoking

 

Highlights:

• In the past five years, diabetes increased from 7.7 percent to 10.1 percent of adults. There are now 1.2 million adults with diabetes in Ohio.
• In the past five years, the rate of uninsured population increased from 11.0 percent to 13.7 percent.
• In the past ten years, obesity increased from 21.5 percent to 29.7 percent of adults, with 3.4 million adults in the state who are now obese.
• In the past year, smoking increased from 20.3 percent to 22.5 percent of the adult population, with 2.6 million adults who still smoke.
• In the past year, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 18.7 percent to 22.9 percent of persons under age 18.

 

Disparities:

• In Ohio, obesity is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 40.8 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 28.7 percent and Hispanics at 32.5 percent. Diabetes also varies by race and ethnicity in the state; 15.3 percent of non-Hispanic blacks have diabetes compared to 12.6 percent of Hispanics and 9.4 percent of non-Hispanic whites.

 

State Health Department Web Site: www.odh.ohio.gov