HEALTH STATISTICS

  • Preventable illness makes up approximately 80% of the burden of illness and 90% of all healthcare costs.

  • Preventable illnesses account for eight of the nine leading categories of death.

  • The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation in the world and yet, in many respects, its citizens are not the healthiest.

  • The US healthcare system is the most expensive of systems, outstripping by over half again the health care expenditures of any other country. $6,7113 in 2003.

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   Statistically, if there are 100 people in your company…..

  • 1 uses cocaine

  • 5 are being treated for diabetes

  • 10 drink alcohol heavily

  • 10 have high blood pressure

  • 10 have diabetes (5 don’t know they have it)

  • 25 smoke cigarettes

  • 25 have high cholesterol

  • 25 have heart disease

  • 30 are overweight by more than 20%

  • 50 feel they are under moderate stress

 These unhealthy lifestyles and habits all contribute to the escalation of healthcare costs. In addition they result in decreased productivity and increased injury and absenteeism. Most are the result of treatable illnesses, conscious decisions, inadequate information, misinformation and ignorance.

 

Source:

1United Health Foundation and American Public Health Association Annual Report, Presented December, 2005

2The Wellness Councils of America. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Fundamentals of Workplace Health Promotion, p.24 1995.
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The Average American        

          The average American woman is 5'4" tall and weighs 164 pounds.

          The average American male is 5'9½ " tall and weights 191 pounds.

          The overall average BMI is 28, which is considered to be overweight.

Current statistics place 64 percent of the adult population within some definition of obesity, from overweight to morbid obesity. Women and men are about equally represented . Nearly 62 % of women and 67 % of men are overweight. These statistics mean that less than half of the American adult population is of a healthy weight!

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Osteoporosis Stats

Women

  • Eighty percent of those affected by osteoporosis are women.
  • Five percent of non-Hispanic black women over age 50 are estimated to have osteoporosis; an estimated additional 35 percent have low bone mass that puts them at risk of developing osteoporosis.
  • Ten percent of Hispanic women aged 50 and older are estimated to have osteoporosis, and 49 percent are estimated to have low bone mass.
  • Twenty percent of non-Hispanic white and Asian women aged 50 and older are estimated to have osteoporosis, and 52 percent are estimated to have low bone mass.

 Men

  • Twenty percent of those affected by osteoporosis are men.
  • Seven percent of non-Hispanic white and Asian men aged 50 and older are estimated to have osteoporosis and 35 percent are estimated to have low bone mass.
  • Four percent of non-Hispanic black men aged 50 and older are estimated to have osteoporosis and 19 percent are estimated to have low bone mass.
  • Three percent of Hispanic men aged 50 and older are estimated to have osteoporosis and 23 percent are estimated to have low bone mass.
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Prostate cancer facts:

  • 1 in 10 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, most after age 65.

  •  This year alone, nearly 200,000 American men will learn they have prostate cancer. That's one new diagnosis every three minutes.

  • This year, prostate cancer will kill more than 30,000 men, making it the second-leading cause of cancer death.

  • Between 1973 and 1993, the rate of new prostate cancer cases rose by 173 percent, due in part to more widespread use of the PSA blood test, and in part because the population is aging.

  • African-American men have the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the world, as well as the highest mortality rates from the disease.

  • Asian men have the lowest incidence of prostate cancer.

  • Prostate cancer risk begins to increase after age 50 for white men who have no family history of the disease, and after age 40 for blacks and those who have close relatives who were diagnosed with the cancer.

  • The American Cancer Society and the American Urological Association recommend annual PSA screening tests and digital rectal exams for all men over age 50, and for all high-risk men beginning at age 40. Source: Two Against One

 

Top 10 Causes of Death

  1. Heart Diseases 

  2. Cancer 

  3. Cerebrovascular diseases 

  4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases 

  5. Accidents (Unintentional injuries) 

  6. Diabetes mellitus 

  7. Alzheimer disease    

  8. Influenza & pneumonia

  9. Nephritis 

  10. Septicemia 

 
US Cancer Deaths

1.       Lung & bronchus     

2.       Prostate      

3.       Colon & rectum

4.       Pancreas

5.       Leukemia   

6.       Liver & intrahepatic bile duct

7.       Esophagus 

8.       Urinary bladder                       

9.       Non-Hodgkin  Lymphoma             

10.   Kidney         

11.   All other sites

 

 

  1. Lung & bronchus

  2. Breast

  3. Colon & rectum

  4. Pancreas

  5. Ovary

  6. Leukemia

  7. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

  8. Uterine corpus

  9. Brain/ONS

  10. Liver & intrahepatic bile duct

  11. All other sites
 

Obesity Statistics. USA Obesity Rates Reach Epidemic Proportions

  • 58 Million Overweight; 40 Million Obese; 3 Million morbidly Obese
  • Eight out of 10 over 25's Overweight
  • 78% of American's not meeting basic activity level recommendations
  • 25% completely Sedentary
  • 76% increase in Type II diabetes in adults 30-40 yrs old since 1990