US health report finds percentage of Americans reporting excellent health declined since 1998.
The New York Times (1/26, D7, Bakalar) reports in "Vital Statistics" that a report (pdf) issued last month by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) "on the health of Americans in the first half of 2009" contains "some good news," but "ample bad news, too." While "Americans report that they have been exercising more," the study found that the "percentage of people who reported having excellent or very good health declined to 66.6 percent in the 2009 period, from 69.1 percent in 1998." NCHS statistician Jeannine S. Schiller added, "Flu vaccines were up for people 18 to 49 years old, leisure-time activity was up, and the failure to attain needed medical care due to cost went up significantly in one year. ... Diabetes is also up over the short term."
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