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Healthy Aging - Wilmington Report Card

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2008 - 2009† Wilmington MMSA‡ Report Card
Allentown-Bethlehem-EastonAllentown-Bethlehem-EastonCamdenCamdenEdisonEdisonNew York-White Plains-WayneNew York-White Plains-WayneNewark-UnionNewark-UnionWilmingtonWilmington Wilmington MMSA includes:
 –  New Castle County, Delaware
–  Cecil County, Maryland
–  Salem County, New Jersey
Indicator Data C.I. Year
Category Heading  Health Status Data C.I.§ Year
Physically Unhealthy Days (mean number of days in past month) 5.2 (4.1 – 6.3) 2009
Frequent Mental Distress (%) 5.0 (3.0 – 7.1) 2009
Oral Health: Complete Tooth Loss (%) 17.6 (13.0 – 22.1) 2008
Disability (%) 31.8 (27.1 – 36.5) 2009
Category Heading  Health Behaviors Data C.I.§ Year
No Leisure-Time Physical Activity (%) 30.6 (25.8 – 35.4) 2009
Eating ≥ 5 Fruits and Vegetables Daily (%) 24.4 (19.9 – 29.0) 2009
Obesity (%) 29.3 (24.3 – 34.3) 2009
Current Smoking (%) 9.0 (6.2 – 11.7) 2009
Category Heading  Preventive Care and Screening Data C.I.§ Year
Flu Vaccine in Past Year (%) 71.4 (66.5 – 76.2) 2009
Ever Had Pneumonia Vaccine (%) 61.3 (56.1 – 66.6) 2009
Mammogram Within Past 2 Years (%) 83.4 (83.4 – 83.4) 2008
Colorectal Cancer Screening (%) 68.7 (63.4 – 74.0) 2008
Up-to-date on Select Preventive Services — Men (%) 49.7 (39.3 – 60.0) 2008
Up-to-date on Select Preventive Services — Women (%) 34.6 (28.0 – 41.2) 2008
Cholesterol Checked in Past 5 Years (%) 96.5 (94.9 – 98.1) 2009
Category Heading  Injuries || Data C.I.§ Year
   
† Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area (MMSA) data are not available in this report for data years 2003–2004.
   
‡ MMSA data — The Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) project uses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to analyze the data of selected metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (MMSAs) with 500 or more respondents. BRFSS data can be used to identify emerging health problems, establish and track health objectives, and develop and evaluate public health policies and programs. For more information, visit BRFSS SMART.
   
§ A confidence interval (CI) describes the level of uncertainty of an estimate and specifies the range in which the true value is likely to fall. The State of Aging and Health in America online report uses a 95% level of significance, which means that 95% of the time, the true value falls within these boundaries. When comparing prevalence of variables across states or years, we recommend the use of confidence intervals. If the confidence intervals overlap, the difference is not statistically significant.
   
|| No state-level data for hip fracture hospitalizations exist.
   
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