{"id":1225,"date":"2013-02-26T17:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2013-02-26T17:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:13:28","slug":"state-vitals-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/02\/26\/1225\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS:  FLORIDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Florida Fact Sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2013.pdf\">Florida<\/a> has the 3rd highest cesarean delivery rate in the U.S. (38.1% of all births). Only Louisiana and New Jersey have higher cesarean rates than <a title=\"Florida Fact Sheet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2013.pdf\">Florida<\/a>. The state also has the 5th highest percentage of births born to unmarried mothers (47.6%) and the 10th highest preterm birth rate (13% of all births).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a higher percentage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2013.pdf\" title=\"Florida Fact Sheet\">Floridians<\/a> are without health insurance (19.7% in 2011) compared with the U.S. as a whole (15.1%) , and the state also has higher mortality rates from homicide and drug poisoning compared to the national average.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2013.pdf\" title=\"Florida Fact Sheet\">Florida<\/a> also had the 3rd <em>lowest<\/em> mortality rate from influenza\/pneumonia in 2010, as well as the 6th lowest mortality rate from stroke, and the 8th lowest mortality rate from Alzheimer\u2019s disease &#8212; despite a large elderly population living in several areas of the state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2013.pdf\" title=\"Florida Fact Sheet\">Florida<\/a> also has lower mortality compared to the rest of the nation for several other leading causes of death, including: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, and kidney disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida has the 3rd highest cesarean delivery rate in the U.S. (38.1% of all births). Only Louisiana and New Jersey have higher cesarean rates than Florida. The state also has the 5th highest percentage of births born to unmarried mothers (47.6%) and the 10th highest preterm birth rate (13% of all births). In addition, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}