for white non-Hispanic andAsian females,more
than 40 percent for Hispanic or Latino and
American Indian females, andaround30percent
for Black or African American females.
Teenage femalesalso received fewerabortions in
2013 (n = 1,441) than in 2012 (n = 1,539).
More than 40 percent of abortion records for
teenage females reported either multiple
race/ethnicities or was missing information on
race/ethnicity,making the calculationof percent
change in teenage abortions by race/ethnicity
ineffective.
T
OTAL
M
ORTALITY
During 2013, 49,929 Arizona residents died,
1,470 more than in 2012. The 2013 age-
adjusted mortality rate slightly increased from
687.2 per 100,000 residents in 2012 to 687.8
per 100,000 residents in 2013. Themedian age
at death in 2013was 76.9 years.
I
NFANT
M
ORTALITY
In 2013, 447 infants died before reaching their
first birthday, 254 fewer than the latest peak of
701 infant deaths in 2007. The infant mortality
rate (IMR) decreased from5.8 infant deaths per
1,000 live births in 2012 to 5.3/1,000 in 2013,
the lowest IMR in the State?s history.
Newborn weight at birth is one of the most
important predictors of an infant?s survival
chances. In 2013, the mortality rate among
babies weighing less than 500 grams at birth
was 84.8 percent. Together, births of infants
weighing less than 1,500 grams accounted for
1.1 percent of births and 47.9 percent of all
infant deaths.
C
AUSE
-
SPECIFIC
M
ORTALITY
In2013, thenumber of deaths due to
nephritis
decreased from 440 in 2012 to 391 in 2013, a
11.1 percent decrease. In 2013, 160 Arizonans
died from
obesity
as the underlying cause of
death, a 16.2 percent decrease from 2012. The
number of completed
suicides
in 2013 (n =
1,116) was a slight increase from the 1,070
suicides observed in 2012. In 2013, males
accounted for 77.1 percent of suicides. In2013,
suicidewas the7
th
leading causeofdeathamong
males. It ranked as the 11
th
leading cause of
mortality for females. The age-adjusted suicide
rate increased from16.2 suicidesper 100,000 in
2012 to 17.0/100,000 in 2013. From 2012 to
2013, middle-aged adults (ages 45-64 years)
experienced an unprecedented increase in
mortality from accidental poisoning, increasing
26.1 percent.
From 2009 to 2013 the number of deaths from
diabetes
increasedby61.8percent, from1,078
deaths in 2009 to 1,744 deaths in 2013. In
addition to 1,744 deaths that had diabetes
assignedas theunderlying cause, another2,762
deaths had diabetes assigned as a contributing
factor. The diabetes-related death rate of
60.7/100,000 was 2.6 times greater than the
rate for diabetes as underlying cause
(23.6/100,000). Thediabetes-relateddeath rate
includes all mentions of diabetes on the death
certificate as the underlying cause or other than
underlying cause.
H
OSPITAL
C
ARE
In 2013 there were 636,535 inpatients
discharged, excluding newborn infants, from
non-Federal short stay hospitals in Arizona.
Among those admitted as inpatients, 2,701
Arizonanswerehospitalizedwith thediagnosisof
enterocolitis due to
Clostridium difficile
,
a
bacterial inflammation of the intestines. The
disease is of growing public health concern
because it is often acquired in hospitals and
other health care institutions with long-term
patients as residents.
In 2013, 2,568 Arizonans were admitted as
inpatients with the diagnosis of
depression
as
first-listed diagnosis. In addition there were
6,885 emergency room recordswith depression
as the first-listeddiagnosis (for a total of 10,256
hospital encounters). When considering all nine
potential diagnoses associated with a hospital
discharge, depression was associated with
100,979 inpatient or emergency room
discharges in 2013.
E
MERGENCY
R
OOM
C
ARE
During2013, nearly2.0millionvisitsweremade
by Arizona residents to hospital emergency
rooms (ER), about 30.2 visits per 100 persons.
In 2013,
abdominal pain
,
chest pain
,
acute
upper respiratory infection
,
mental
disorders
,
contusion with intact skin
surfaces
, and
spinal disorders
were the
leading diagnostic categories, accounting for
approximately one-fourth (22.2 percent) of all
visits
Around seventeen-hundred Arizonans were
treated inanemergency roomwith thediagnosis
of
exposure to excessive natural heat
.
A comparison of some of the basic findings for
theState for 2003, 2008, and2013 ispresented
on the following page.
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Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics 2013
