Strengths:

• High rate of high school graduation
• Low prevalence of sedentary lifestyle & diabetes
• Low rate of premature death and deaths from cardiovascular disease

 

Challenges:

• High incidence of infectious disease
• High prevalence of binge drinking
• Low per capita public health funding

 

Highlights:

• Minnesota’s sedentary lifestyle and diabetes rates are among the lowest in the U.S. However, 891,000 adults live a sedentary lifestyle and almost 300,000 adults have diabetes in the state.
• In the past five years, the amount of public health funding decreased from $62 to $43 per person.
• In the past five years, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 65.6 to 50.6 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past ten years, the percentage of children in poverty has increased from 8.1 percent to 13.3 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, the rate of cardiovascular deaths decreased from 270.4 to 195.9 deaths per 100,000 population.
• In the past year, the immunization coverage increased from 90.9 percent to 93.2 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months.

 

Disparities:

• In Minnesota, sedentary lifestyle is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 29.4 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 16.8 percent; and smoking is more prevalent among non-Hispanic blacks at 21.2 percent than non-Hispanic whites at 15.4 percent.

 

State Health Department Web Site: www.health.state.mn.us