Monitoring the Nation's Health
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
National Center for Health Statistics

Monthly Statistical E-Letter

JULY 2008
 

 

VITAL STATISTICS

 

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• Diagnosed Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Learning Disability: United States, 2004-2006

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STATE PROFILE:  MISSOURI

 

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HEALTH & NUTRITION

• The annual prevalence of current smoking among U.S. adults declined from 24.7% in 1997 to 19.7% in 2007.
   
• Non-Hispanic white adults and non-Hispanic black adults were more likely than Hispanic adults to be current smokers. The age-sex-adjusted prevalence of current smoking was 12.7% for Hispanic persons, 22.1% for non-Hispanic white persons, and 19.4% for non-Hispanic black persons.
   
• The annual percentage of adults who had five or more drinks in 1 day at least once in the past year has remained stable over the past decade, ranging from 19.1% to 21.4%.
   
• In 2007, 30.8% of U.S. adults aged 18 years and over engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity, which was not significantly different from the 2006 estimate of 30.9%.  The annual percentages of adults aged 18 years and over who engaged in regular leisure-time physical activity increased from 29.8% in 1998 to 31.9% in 2001, did not change significantly from 2001 to 2003, decreased from 2003 to 2004, and did not change significantly from 2004 to 2007.

(Source: National Health Interview Survey, "Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the 2007 National Health Interview Survey"

 

HEALTH INSURANCE

• 43.1 million Americans of all ages were uninsured in 2007 (14.5 percent of the population.)  An estimated 8.9 percent of children under age 18 had no health insurance in 2007 –- the lowest percentage of uninsured children in the past decade.
   

• In 2004-2006, the New England region had the lowest percentage of uninsured individuals under age 65 in 2004-2006 and the Southwest had the highest. Overall, 91.1 percent of New Englanders had some kind of health insurance in 2004-2006. The Southwest had the greatest proportion of uninsured -– 18.2 percent of children and nearly 30 percent of adults.

 

(Sources: National Health Interview Survey,  "State, Regional, and National Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage for People Under 65 Years of Age: National Health Interview Survey, 2004-2006" and "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2007")