NHM Health Focus: National Public Health Week

QUICK FACTS

Population-Specific Issues.

• The rate of childhood Type 2 diabetes is 13 times as high among South Asian children as it is among white children. (Medical News)
  
  
• Each day 4,400 American adolescents try their first cigarette. (CDC)
  
  
• Almost 80 percent of adolescents in the US do not eat the recommended number of servings of fruits and vegetables. (CDC)
  
  
• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have higher rates of new cases of hepatitis and tuberculosis. (Healthy People 2010
  
  
• Vietnamese American women suffer from cervical cancer at nearly five times the rate of white women. (Healthy People 2010)
  
  
• African Americans have a 30 percent higher death rate for all cancers and are more than seven times more likely to die from HIV/AIDS. (Healthy People 2010)
  
  
• Hispanics and Latinos are almost twice as likely to die from diabetes and have higher rates of blood pressure and obesity. (Healthy People 2010)
  
  
• American Indians and Alaskan Natives have disproportionately high death rates from unintentional injuries and suicide. (Healthy People 2010)
  
  
• Today, 21 percent of adult women in the U.S. smoke and lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among American women. (NRC for Women and Families)
  
  
• Currently there are anywhere from one million to 2.8 million Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual adults 65 and older in the United States.(National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute)