The Rankings

Oregon

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Strengths:

• Low prevalence of smoking
• Low rate of preventable hospitalizations
• Low levels of air pollution

Challenges:

• High rate of uninsured population
• Low per capita public health funding
• High percentage of children in poverty

Highlights:

• While smoking decreased from 20.7 percent to 15.1 percent of adults in the last ten years, 448,000 adults still smoke in Oregon.
• In the past year, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 46.1 to 42.0 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past year, obesity increased from 23.6 percent to 27.6 percent of adults, with 818,000 obese adults in the state.
• In the past five years, diabetes increased from 6.7 percent to 7.2 percent of adults. Now 213,000 Oregon adults have diabetes.
• In the past ten years, the rate of uninsured population increased from 12.7 percent to 16.8 percent.

Health Disparities:

Diabetes varies by race and ethnicity in the state; 7.3 percent of non- Hispanic whites have diabetes compared to 6.6 percent of Hispanics. Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites have approximately the same prevalence of obesity at 25.4 percent and 25.3 percent, respectively.

State Health Department Web Site: www.oregon.gov/dhs/ph