{"id":2094,"date":"2014-03-11T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:04:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T14:04:45","slug":"state-vitals-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/03\/11\/2094\/","title":{"rendered":"STATE VITALS: FLORIDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height:1.5em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/HAI\/images\/maps\/fl.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Florida\" width=\"222\" height=\"190\" \/>Among the 50 U.S. states,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height:1.5em\" title=\"STATE VITALS: FLORIDA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2014.pdf\">Florida<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.5em\">\u00a0ranks 3rd highest for cesarean delivery rates, and 4th highest in\u00a0the proportion of births to unmarried mothers and preterm births.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Sunshine State\u00a0also has a higher homicide rate and higher mortality rate from drug overdose deaths than the national rate, and has a significant larger proportion of its population without health insurance than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>However, among the ten leading causes of death in the U.S.,\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"STATE VITALS: FLORIDA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/states\/FL_2014.pdf\">Florida<\/a>\u00a0has lower mortality rates than the national rate for the following causes: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, diabetes, kidney disease, and influenza\/pneumonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the 50 U.S. states,\u00a0Florida\u00a0ranks 3rd highest for cesarean delivery rates, and 4th highest in\u00a0the proportion of births to unmarried mothers and preterm births. The Sunshine State\u00a0also has a higher homicide rate and higher mortality rate from drug overdose deaths than the national rate, and has a significant larger proportion of its population without health<\/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\/2094"}],"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=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}