Indicator Profile of Health Status: Mental Health Past 30 Days
Why Is This Important?
Mental health is one of the ten Healthy People 2010 Leading Health Indicators. Mental health refers to an individual's ability to negotiate the daily challenges and social interactions of life without experiencing undue emotional or behavioral incapacity. Mental health and mental disorders can be influenced by numerous conditions including biologic and genetic vulnerabilities, acute or chronic physical dysfunction, and environmental conditions and stresses. Approximately 20% of the U.S. population is affected by mental illness in any given year. The BRFSS mental health question is an attempt to obtain a global measure of recent mental and emotional distress.Percentage of Adults Who Reported Seven or More Days When Their Mental Health Was Not Good in the Past 30 Days by Ethnicity, Utah, 2003-2008
Data Notes
Age-adjusted to U.S. 2000 standard population.Data Sources
Utah Data: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Office of Public Health Assessment, Utah Department of Health;Other Views
- by Age Group, Utah, 2008
- by Education Level, Utah, 2006-2008
- by Income, Utah, 2008
- by Local Health District, Utah, 2006-2008
- by Race, Utah, 2003-2008
- by Small Area, Utah, 2003-2008
- by Sex and Age Group, Utah, 2007 and 2008
- Utah and U.S., 1993-2008
Definition
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who reported seven or more days when their mental health was not good in the past 30 days.How We Calculated the Rates
| Numerator: | Number of survey respondents who reported seven or more days when their mental health was not good in the past 30 days. |
| Denominator: | Total number of survey respondents excluding those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure" and "Refused" responses. |
Page Content Updated On 10/22/09,
Published on 11/02/09
