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America’s Heath Rankings charts are available for you to download for use in PowerPoint presentations, handouts, or wherever you choose! In the top right corner of any chart, press the download icon.
You can also share a single chart, a whole measure, or a State page to Facebook or Twitter by looking for the share icon in the top right corner of a chart or an entire web page.
Strengths
- Low prevalence of excessive drinking
- Low percentage of children in poverty
- Low prevalence of frequent mental distress
Challenges
- High drug death rate
- High violent crime rate
- Large difference in health status by high school education
Highlights
- Since 2012, excessive drinking decreased 26% from 19.6% to 14.6% of adults
- Since 2012, smoking decreased 35% from 19.1% to 12.5% of adults
- In the past year, chlamydia increased 8% from 510.4 to 552.1 cases per 100,000 population
- In the past two years, mental health providers increased 17% from 219.3 to 257.4 per 100,000 population
- In the past year, diabetes increased 15% from 10.4% to 12.0% of adults
- Since 1990, infant mortality decreased 44% from 11.6 to 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births

