2-2.
Reduce the proportion of adults with chronic joint symptoms who experience a limitation in activity due to arthritis.
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2-2. | |
Reduce the proportion of adults with chronic joint symptoms who experience a limitation in activity due to arthritis. |
Target: 21 percent.
Baseline: 27 percent of adults aged 18 years and older with chronic joint symptoms experienced a limitation in activity due to arthritis in 1997 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Adults Aged 18 Years and
Older |
Limitation |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
27 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
27 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
18 |
|
Asian |
16 |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
32 |
|
White |
27 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
28 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
27 |
|
Black or African American |
32 |
|
White |
27 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
31 |
|
Male |
22 |
|
Family income level |
|
|
Poor |
36 |
|
Near Poor |
30 |
|
Middle/high income |
24 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than high school |
34 |
|
High school graduate |
32 |
|
At least some college |
26 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.