Statistics from 2005 America's Health Rankings

The yearly report is funded by the United Foundation for Health, in partnership with the American Public Health Association and Partnership for Prevention. It is avilable in pdf format at this URL - http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2005/ahr05_email.pdf. Highlights include:

• Since 1990, there has been a 99% increase in the prevalence of obesity, 40% decrease of infectious disease, 30% decline in smoking, and 18% decrease of cardiovascular death.
• Since 2004, there has been a 1% increase in obesity, 6% decline in smoking, 6% decrease of infectious disease
• 28 countries have healthy life expectancies that exceed the U.S., the highest being Japan, which can expect to have five additional years of life.