Population Health and Vital Statistics
Community Vital Statistics, Arizona, 2020
Preface
This publication provides readers with community-level data on live births and deaths in Arizona in 2020. Information on live births and deaths is compiled from the original documents (i.e., certificates of live birth and certificates of death) filed with the Arizona Department of Health Services. The tabulated data include:
- Selected characteristics of newborns and mothers giving births (mother aged 19 years or younger, early prenatal care, women giving birth who had 5 or more prenatal visits, women giving birth who had no prenatal care during pregnancy, the incidence of low-birthweight (LBW) newborns, births to unwed mothers);
- Supplementary indicators focused on socio-demographic characteristics of the women giving birth in 2020 (births by mother's race/ethnicity, births by mother's age group, births by the payer);
- Mortality from cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, breast cancer, motor vehicle-related injuries, homicide, suicide, injury by firearms, drug-induced deaths, and alcohol-induced deaths;
- Age-specific and race-specific mortality profiles by community.
The 2011 Community Vital Statistics report was the first report in this series to include cell suppression. To protect the anonymity of the individuals included in this report, cells in tables with five or fewer observations are denoted by an asterisk (*), and cells containing sums based on addends of five or fewer are rounded to the nearest tens-unit and denoted by a dagger (†).
Table of Contents
- Selected Characteristics of Newborns and Mothers by Primary Care Area
- Total births
- Mother 19 or younger
- Prenatal care in the first trimester
- No prenatal care
- Public payer for birth
- LBW newborns
- Unwed mother
- Births by Mother's Race/Ethnicity and Primary Care Area
- Births by Mother's Age Group and Primary Care Area
- Payer for Births by Primary Care Area
- Number of Deaths by Age Group and Primary Care Area
- Number of Deaths by Race/Ethnicity and Primary Care Area
- Number of Deaths from Selected Causes by Primary Care Area
- All causes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Assault (homicide)
- Intentional self-harm (suicide)
- Injury by firearms
(includes accidental discharge of firearms, suicide by firearms, homicide by firearms, legal intervention involving firearm discharge and discharge of firearms, undetermined intent) - Drug-induced deaths
(includes mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use, accidental poisoning by and exposure to drugs, suicide by drugs, homicide by drugs; and poisoning by drugs, undetermined intent) - Alcohol-induced deaths
(includes mental and behavioral disorders due to alcohol use, degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol, alcoholic polyneuropathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic gastritis, alcoholic liver disease, finding of alcohol in blood, accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol, intentional self-poisoning by alcohol; poisoning by alcohol, undetermined intent)
This report was prepared by:
Yan Huang, M.S., Vital Statistics Health Management Analyst
Saranya Murukutla, MPH, Data Analyst
Clare Torres, Senior Health Data Analyst