State Findings: Arizona, 2022, 2022 Health Of Women And Children Report
Strengths
- Low prevalence of excessive drinking among women
- Low Black/white residential segregation
- Low prevalence of tobacco use among adolescents
Challenges
- High child mortality rate
- Low percentage of female college graduates
- Low prevalence of physical activity among children
Highlights
- Depression increased 104% from 2.3% to 4.7% of children ages 3-17 between 2017-2018 and 2020-2021.
- Teen births decreased 37% from 26.3 to 16.6 births per 1,000 females ages 15-19 between 2015 and 2020.
- Mortality increased 35% from 100.7 to 135.6 deaths per 100,000 women ages 20-44 between 2019 and 2020.
- Cigarette smoking during pregnancy decreased 30% from 5.3% to 3.7% of live births between 2015 and 2020.
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