State and Metropolitan-Area Estimates of Disability in the United States, 2001

We sought to provide estimates of disability prevalence for states and metropolitan areas in the United States. We analyzed Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from 2001 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia and 103 metropolitan areas. We performed stratified analyses by demogra...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 95; no. 11; pp. 1964 - 1969
Main Authors Okoro, Catherine A, Balluz, Lina S, Campbell, Vincent A, Holt, James B, Mokdad, Ali H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC Am Public Health Assoc 01.11.2005
American Public Health Association
American Journal of Public Health 2005
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Age Distribution
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Disability
Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data
Education
Estimates
Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity
Female
Gender
Health care
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Health care policy
Health surveillance
Hispanic people
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Metropolitan areas
Middle Aged
Miscellaneous
People with disabilities
Population Surveillance - methods
Prevalence
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research and Practice
Surveillance
United States - epidemiology
Womens health
United States
North America
America
United States > US
Handicap
Disability
Estimation
2001
Epidemiology
Public health
Geographical variation
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Summary:We sought to provide estimates of disability prevalence for states and metropolitan areas in the United States. We analyzed Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from 2001 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia and 103 metropolitan areas. We performed stratified analyses by demographics for 20 metropolitan areas with the highest prevalence of disability. State disability estimates ranged from 10.5% in Hawaii to 25.9% in Arizona. Metropolitan disability estimates ranged from 10.2% in Honolulu, Hawaii to 27.1% in Tucson, Ariz. Regional metropolitan medians for disability (range, 17.0-19.7%) were similar across the Northeast, Midwest, and South and were highest in the West. In the 20 metropolitan areas with the highest disability estimates, the prevalence of disability generally increased with age and was higher for women and those with a high-school education or less. State and metropolitan-area estimates may be used to guide state and local efforts to prevent, delay, or reduce disability and secondary conditions in persons with disabilities.
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Peer Reviewed
Note. The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Human Participant Protection…No protocol approval was needed for this study.
Requests for reprints should be sent to Catherine A. Okoro, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Mail Stop K–66, Atlanta, GA 30341–3717 (e-mail: cokoro@cdc.gov).
Contributors…C. A. Okoro originated and designed the study, completed the analyses, and led the writing. J. B. Holt assisted with the geographic mapping. L. S. Balluz, V. A. Campbell, and A. H. Mokdad helped interpret the findings. All authors helped to review drafts of this article.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2004.047308