Snapshots on Women's Health

The Office of Minority Health has declared April as the month to raise awareness about health disparities that especially affect members of racial and ethnic minority populations.

*Use caution in interpreting, the estimate has a relative standard error greater than 30% and does not meet UDOH standards for reliability.         

• Health insurance coverage individuals obtain services that help prevent disease or helps  them obtain optimal treatment  if they already have a chronic condition.
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January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Thyroid Awareness Month

About 1,000 babies in Utah, or about one in 50, are born with some type of birth defect each year

• Heart defects are the most common type of structural birth defect, accounting for up to one-third to one-fourth of all birth defects.
• Neural tube defects, which are defects of the spine and brain, affect about one in 1,365 births in Utah.
• Craniofacial anomalies are relatively common. Orofacial clefts affect one in every 600-750 newborns worldwide. Although Utah does not have excessive rates of birth defects
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November is National Diabetes Month
November 14 is World Diabetes Day

Nationally, about 19 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes. An increasing number of Americans is being diagnosed each year.  If the current trend continues, as many as 15 percent of all Americans could have diabetes by 2050.

An estimated 130,000 Utah adults (about 6.7 percent or one in 15 adults) have been diagnosed with diabetes.

Diabetes is serious

• Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. In Utah, it is the sixth leading cause of
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