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2019
Value

Behaviors
Drug Deaths (deaths per 100,000 population)
Excessive Drinking (% of adults)
High School Graduation (% of students)
Obesity (% of adults)
Physical Inactivity (% of adults)
Smoking (% of adults)
Behaviors Total*

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Community & Environment
Air Pollution (micrograms of fine particles per cubic meter)
Children in Poverty (% of children)
Infectious Disease (mean z score of chlamydia, pertussis and Salmonella)*
Chlamydia (cases per 100,000 population)
Infectious Diseases— Pertussis (cases per 100,000 population)
Salmonella (cases per 100,000 population)
Occupational Fatalities (deaths per 100,000 workers)
Violent Crime (offenses per 100,000 population)
Community & Environment Total*

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RATING
Symbol

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Rank

1–10
11–20
21–30
31–40
41–50

Policy
Immunizations—Adolescents (mean z score of HPV, meningococcal and Tdap)*
HPV Females (% ages 13–17)
Immunizations—
HPV Males (% ages 13–17)
Adolescents Meningococcal (% ages 13–17)
Tdap (% ages 13–17)
Immunizations—Children (% ages 19–35 months)
Public Health Funding (dollars per person)
Uninsured (% of population)
Policy Total*
Clinical Care
Dentists (number per 100,000 population)
Low Birthweight (% of live births)
Mental Health Providers (number per 100,000 population)
Preventable Hospitalizations (discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees)
Primary Care Physicians (number per 100,000 population)
Clinical Care Total*

2019
Rank

No. 1
State

26.4
19.0
87.9
27.4
22.4
12.2
0.153

40
35
15
7
18
4
5

7.2
11.3
91.0
22.9
16.4
9.0
0.288

7.2
14.1
-0.540
494.7
2.1
12.9
3.4
207
0.179

22
17
7
24
8
17
8
5
9

4.4
9.5
-1.230
228.0
0.7
6.5
2.7
112
0.307

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0.890
54.7
51.6
92.1
95.4
75.3
$86
5.4
0.108

6
24
20
8
3
10
28
8
7

1.863
76.1
80.0
98.7
97.5
82.1
$281
2.8
0.206

73.3
8.1
396.9
46.2
220.0
0.134

7
22
8
19
4
5

82.7
6.2
626.6
23.3
274.9
0.188

All Determinants* +++++

0.574

4

0.687

174.2
219.8
9.7
30.7
11.0
10.5
4.7
6,091
0.160
0.734

8
5
12
41
5
8
8
4
8
4

149.8
193.8
7.0
14.5
9.3
9.6
3.8
5,665
0.234
0.850

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OBESITY

PERCENTAGE OF ADULTS

PERCENTAGE OF ADULTS

* Value indicates z score. Negative scores are below U.S. value; positive scores are above U.S. value. Years reflect
edition year, not data source year. For measure definitions, including data sources and years, see Table 9.

SMOKING
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0

4

Change:

1

0
10
20
30
40
50
2000

2010

7

4

8

2019 EDITION YEAR

4

OVERALL RANK

Strengths:

• Low prevalence of smoking
• High rate of primary care physicians
• Low cardiovascular death rate

Challenges:

• High prevalence of excessive drinking
• High drug death rate
• Large difference in health status by high
school education

Highlights:

• Since 2013, high school graduation
increased 6% from 83.0% to 87.9% of
students
• Since 1993, low birthweight increased
23% from 6.6% to 8.1% of live births
• In the past three years, air pollution
decreased 18% from 8.8 to 7.2
micrograms of fine particles per cubic
meter
• In the past five years, drug deaths
increased 140% from 11.0 to 26.4 deaths
per 100,000 population
• In the past 10 years, children in poverty
increased 13% from 12.5% to 14.1% of
children
• In the past year, chlamydia increased
28% from 387.4 to 494.7 cases per
100,000 population

Senior Report Rank: 3
Health of Women and Children
Report Rank: 5

40

35
30
25

State Health Department Website:

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portal.ct.gov/dph

15
10
5
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1990

1995

2000

EDITION YEAR

State

RANK:

1990

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Outcomes
Cancer Deaths (deaths per 100,000 population)
Cardiovascular Deaths (deaths per 100,000 population)
Diabetes (% of adults)
Disparity in Health Status (% difference by high school education)
Frequent Mental Distress (% of adults)
Frequent Physical Distress (% of adults)
Infant Mortality (deaths per 1,000 live births)
Premature Death (years lost before age 75 per 100,000 population)
All Outcomes*
OVERALL*

OVERALL

OVERALL RANK

Rating

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut

Nation

2005

2010

2015

2019

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

2019

EDITION YEAR

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