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Now Available on State Health Compare: Updated Data on Five Measures of Social Determinants of Health and Three Measures of Youth Health Behaviors

SHADAC Staff
July 12, 2018

SHADAC has updated eight measures in State Health Compare. The updated measures include:

  • Unemployment Rate
    This measure is now available for all states from 2000 through 2017.
  • Smoke-Free Campuses
    The measure is an indication of whether a state has enacted laws to ensure smoke-free campuses and can be broken down by type of school campus—i.e., public vs. private and k-12 vs. college. This measure is now available for all states from 2000 through 2017.
  • Cigarette Tax Rates
    This measure indicates the rate of state excise tax per pack of cigarettes and is now available for all states from 2000 through 2016.
  • Public Health Funding
    This measure captures per-capita state-provided public health funding in each state and is now available for all states from 2005 through 2016. Read SHADAC’s recent issue brief on this measure.
  • Child Vaccinations
    This measure indicates the percent of children ages 19-35 months who received all recommended vaccines and is now available for all states from 2000 through 2016.
  • High School Obesity
    This measure indicates the prevalence of obesity (>95th percentile for BMI) among high school students. It is now available for all states from 2001 through 2017.
  • High School Smoking
    This measure indicates the percent of high school students who smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days. It is now available for all states from 2001 through 2017.
  • High School Physical Activity
    This measure indicates the percent of high school students who did not meet the recommendations for 60 minutes of physical activity per day in five of the last seven days. It is now available for all states from 2001 through 2017.

Explore these updated estimates on State Health Compare.

Data Sources

The State Health Compare estimates for unemployment rates come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; the smoke free campuses and state cigarette tax rates come from the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System; the public health funding measure comes from Trust for America’s Health; the child vaccinations measure comes from the CDC’s National Immunization Survey; and the measures of high school obesity, smoking, and physical activity come from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).