Finding and Using Health Statistics

1. About Health Statistics

Correlates


Health correlates include both the risk factors and protective factors that are associated with our health. They include social and economic factors like income and education; physical factors like air pollution; and personal behaviors like smoking, exercise, or using drugs or alcohol.1 In practice, correlates may also be referred to as determinants of health.

Understanding how correlates relate to a disease, as well as their distribution or spread in a population, can be important for disease prevention.

This graph provides information about vaping nicotine in the United States. The data shows us what percentage of people over the age of twelve who vaped nicotine in the past month in 2020.2

Close-up of a young woman exhaling smoke vapour from an electronic cigarette, holding the device in her hand. Shot at home, indoors.

(Image Source: iStock, Christopher Ames©)


Past Month Nicotine Vaping: Among People Aged 12 or Older; 2020

Bar chart with the Y-axis as Percent Using in Past Month and X-axis as Age Groups. The age groups are 12 or Older at 3.8 percent, 12 to 17 at 5.1 percent, 18 to 25 at 11.7 percent, and 26 or Older at 2.4 percent.

1. "Health Impact Assessment, The Determinants of Health." World Health Organization (WHO), n.d., Web 1/24/2017

2. " Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration". (2021). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. PEP21-07-01-003, NSDUH Series H-56). Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/

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