Women's Health: How Does Your Accompaniment Rank?
Women are beneath acceptable to be adipose in Colorado, and they're added acceptable to get approved mammograms if they reside in the Northeast, according to a new federal address that ranks women's bloom state-by-state.
The report, appear today by the Department of Bloom and Human Services' Office on Women's Bloom and the CDC, ranks anniversary state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico on 27 indicators of women's health, such as above causes of death, antitoxin care, and bloom allowance coverage.
Researchers begin no accompaniment denticulate best on all of the women's bloom indicators, but several bounded patterns emerged, such as:
- Eight of the 10 states with the accomplished achievement afterlife ante were in the South.
- Colorado, Hawaii, and Utah had some of the everyman afterlife ante for affection diseases and cancers.
- The Northeast had a array of states with a top allotment of women with contempo mammograms and contempo cholesterol screenings.
- States with a ample Hispanic citizenry -- Texas, California, Arizona, and Colorado -- had almost lower ante of bloom allowance coverage.
Ranking Women's Brainy Health
In the report, advisers aswell looked at women's brainy bloom and begin the women's brainy bloom appeared best in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Montana. These states had the a lot of women who appear aught canicule in the antecedent ages in which their brainy bloom was not acceptable due to stress, depression, and problems with affections from 1997 to 2000.
The angle for women's brainy bloom was beneath aflush in Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, Nevada, Mississippi, and Oregon, area the a lot of women appear 14-30 canicule in the endure ages in which their brainy bloom suffered.
Women's Blubber and Afterlife Risks Vary by State
When it came to blubber ante a part of women, advisers begin that Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, and Texas had the a lot of adipose changeable residents, with 25% or added of the women classified as adipose from 1997-2002.
Colorado, Hawaii, and Massachusetts had the everyman allotment of adipose women -- beneath than 18% in anniversary state.
The address aswell showed that women's accident of afterlife from any could cause assorted abundantly a part of the states. For example, women's bloodshed amount was accomplished in Mississippi and everyman in Hawaii.
To see how your accompaniment fared, see the blueprint below:
| State | Deaths per 100,000 women of all ages, 2000 |
| Alabama | 1,005 |
| Alaska | 850 |
| Arizona | 811 |
| Arkansas | 968 |
| California | 793 |
| Colorado | 800 |
| Connecticut | 784 |
| Delaware | 896 |
| District of Columbia | 1,063 |
| Florida | 810 |
| Georgia | 974 |
| Hawaii | 678 |
| Idaho | 815 |
| Illinois | 885 |
| Indiana | 927 |
| Iowa | 795 |
| Kansas | 848 |
| Kentucky | 1,000 |
| Louisiana | 1,013 |
| Maine | 859 |
| Maryland | 905 |
| Massachusetts | 814 |
| Michigan | 903 |
| Minnesota | 767 |
| Mississippi | 1,041 |
| Missouri | 928 |
| Montana | 850 |
| Nebraska | 809 |
| Nevada | 937 |
| New Hampshire | 814 |
| New Jersey | 849 |
| New Mexico | 829 |
| New York | 818 |
| North Carolina | 938 |
| North Dakota | 780 |
| Ohio | 924 |
| Oklahoma | 976 |
| Oregon | 836 |
| Pennsylvania | 889 |
| Rhode Island | 816 |
| South Carolina | 969 |
| South Dakota | 801 |
| Tennessee | 987 |
| Texas | 788 |
| Utah | 788 |
| Vermont | 819 |
| Virginia | 885 |
| Washington | 809 |
| West Virginia | 1,008 |
| Wisconsin | 822 |
| Wyoming | 868 |
| U.S. Average | 869 |