22-5.
Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain flexibility.
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22-5. | |
Increase the proportion of adults who perform physical activities that enhance and maintain flexibility. |
Target: 43 percent.
Baseline: 30 percent of adults aged 18 years and older did stretching exercises in the past 2 weeks in 1998 (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, 1998 (unless noted) |
Stretching |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
30 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
26 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
34 |
|
Asian |
34 |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
42 |
|
Black or African American |
26 |
|
White |
30 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
22 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
31 |
|
Black or African American |
27 |
|
White |
31 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
30 |
|
Male |
30 |
|
Family income level |
|
|
Below poverty |
21 |
|
Near poverty |
24 |
|
Middle/high income |
34 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than high school |
16 |
|
High school graduate |
23 |
|
At least some college |
36 |
|
Geographic location |
|
|
Urban |
32 |
|
Rural |
25 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with activity limitations |
29 (1995) |
|
Persons without activity limitations |
31 (1995) |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Age groups |
|
|
18 to 24 years |
36 |
|
25 to 44 years |
32 |
|
45 to 64 years |
28 |
|
65 to 74 years |
24 |
|
75 years and older |
22 |
|
Persons with arthritis symptoms |
DNA |
|
Persons without arthritis symptoms |
DNA |
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.