Strengths:

• Low incidence of infectious disease
• Low levels of air pollution
• Low percentage of children in poverty

 

Challenges:

• High prevalence of low birthweight
• Limited availability of primary care physicians
• Low immunization coverage

 

Highlights:

• In the past five years, the occupational fatalities rate decreased 56 percent from 16.4 to 7.2 deaths per 100,000 workers; it has declined steadily in the past six years.
• In the past ten years, the rate of preventable hospitalizations declined from 72.3 to 58.2 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past year, immunization coverage decreased from 90.7 percent to 82.5 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months.
• Last year, the incidence of infectious disease was 4.8 cases per 100,000 population; this year it is 4.1.
• Smoking remains high at 23.0 percent of the adult population, with 100,000 adults who smoke in Wyoming.
• The infant mortality rate declined in the past year from 7.2 to 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births.

 

Disparities:

• In Wyoming, obesity is more prevalent among non-Hispanic Native Americans at 40.9 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 24.6 percent; and smoking is more prevalent among non-Hispanic Native Americans at 50.6 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 18.6 percent and Hispanics at 24.2 percent.

 

State Health Department Web Site: http://www.health.wyo.gov