{"id":3113,"date":"2016-04-27T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2016-04-27T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:13:14","slug":"annual-report-card-on-the-nations-health-shows-racial-and-ethnic-health-disparities-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/04\/27\/3113\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNUAL REPORT CARD ON THE NATION\u2019S HEALTH SHOWS RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES PERSIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus15.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3114 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/hus15_cover_final.png?w=236\" alt=\"hus15_cover_FINAL\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hus\/hus15.pdf\">Health, United States, 2015<\/a>\u201d. This is the 39th annual report card on the nation\u2019s health, along with a special feature on racial and ethnic health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>The special feature was inspired by the landmark 1985 Report of the Secretary&#8217;s Task Force on Black and Minority Health (Heckler Report), which documented significant health disparities among racial and ethnic groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference between the highest (non-Hispanic black) and lowest (non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander) infant mortality rates among the five racial and ethnic groups narrowed from 9.41 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1999 to 7.21 in 2013.<\/li>\n<li>During 1999\u20132014 non-Hispanic black mothers experienced the highest percentage of low-risk cesarean deliveries (29.9 percent in 2014) among the five racial and ethnic groups while non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native mothers experienced the lowest (21.5 percent in 2014).<\/li>\n<li>Among Hispanic mothers during 1999-2014, Cuban mothers experienced the highest percentage of low-risk cesarean deliveries among the five Hispanic-origin groups (41.4 percent in 2014) while Mexican mothers experienced the lowest (24.1 percent in 2014).<\/li>\n<li>In 2011\u20132014 for children and adolescents aged 2\u201319 years, Hispanic children and adolescents had the highest prevalence of obesity (21.9 percent) and non-Hispanic Asian children and adolescents had the lowest prevalence (8.6 percent).<\/li>\n<li>The difference for women between the highest (non-Hispanic white) and lowest (non-Hispanic Asian) percentages of current cigarette smokers among racial and ethnic groups narrowed from 17.5 percentage points in 1999 to 13.2 in 2014 (percentages are age-adjusted).<\/li>\n<li>The difference between the highest and lowest percentage of uninsured adults aged 18-64, narrowed from a difference of 24.9 percentage points in 1999 (Hispanic adults compared with non-Hispanic white adults) to a difference of 19.9 percentage points in the first six months of 2015 (Hispanic adults compared with non-Hispanic Asian adults).<\/li>\n<li>In 2014 among adults aged 18-64, Hispanic adults had the highest percentage of those not receiving needed dental care in the past 12 months due\u00a0to cost (15.7 percent) and non-Hispanic Asian adults had the lowest percentage (6.3 percent).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released \u201cHealth, United States, 2015\u201d. This is the 39th annual report card on the nation\u2019s health, along with a special feature on racial and ethnic health disparities. The special feature was inspired by the landmark 1985 Report of the Secretary&#8217;s Task Force on Black and Minority<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53700,53747],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}