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Report Data: View by Region, State, or MMSA
To obtain data on older adult health for the nation, a particular state, and/or the District of Columbia select a location in the dropdown menu or click a state using the map below. You may also compare data for two locations or view the State Performance Summary.
 
 
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State Performance Summary
The table below depicts data for 14 key indicators (hip fracture hospitalizations are not available for every state) related to older adult health for the 50 states and District of Columbia, and indicates which states are performing at the highest and lowest levels. There is considerable variation among the states for each indicator.
    
Indicator† Data Year HP 2010 Target‡ # of States Meeting Target§ Worst-Ranked State Best-Ranked State
Health Status Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading 
Physically Unhealthy Days (mean number of days in past month) 2009 || || Kentucky (7.2) New Hampshire (5.1)
Frequent Mental Distress (%) 2009 || || Alabama (8.9) Minnesota (4.3)
Oral Health: Complete Tooth Loss (%) 2008 20 29 West Virginia (37.8) Hawaii (9.6)
Disability (%) 2009 || || Mississippi (41.3) Hawaii (29.7)
Health Behaviors Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading 
No Leisure-Time Physical Activity (%) 2009 20 0 Kentucky (40.8) Hawaii (25.0)
Eating ≥ 5 Fruits and Vegetables Daily (%) 2009 Mississippi (16.4) Hawaii (27.3)
Obesity (%) 2009 15 1 Alaska (31.2) Hawaii (13.9)
Current Smoking (%) 2009 12 49 Nevada (16.2) Utah (3.9)
Preventive Care and Screening Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading 
Flu Vaccine in Past Year (%) 2009 90 0 District of Columbia (67.1) Rhode Island (75.7)
Ever Had Pneumonia Vaccine (%) 2009 90 0 District of Columbia (62.1) Oregon (69.5)
Mammogram Within Past 2 Years (%) 2008 70 49 Mississippi (71.9) Massachusetts (84.4)
Colorectal Cancer Screening (%) 2008 50 51 Mississippi (62.0) District of Columbia (70.2)
Up-to-date on Select Preventive Services — Men (%) 2008 || || Alaska (43.9) New Hampshire (49.6)
Up-to-date on Select Preventive Services — Women (%) 2008 || || Alabama (36.0) Minnesota (42.1)
Cholesterol Checked in Past 5 Years (%) 2009 80 51 Texas (94.0) Delaware (96.1)
Injuries †† Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading  Category Heading 
   
† All state-level data were collected by CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). See Technical Information for a full description of this data source.
   
‡ See Healthy People Targets for a full description.
   
§ Includes all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
   
|| These indicators are more recently developed measures and do not have Healthy People 2010 targets.
   
Healthy People 2010 segments the nutrition target into multiple categories of fruits and vegetables. See Healthy People Targets for a full description.
   
†† No state-level data for hip fracture hospitalizations exist.
   
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