Days Mental Health was Not Good in Past 30 Days (days)
Leading health experts agree that mental and physical health have a marked impact on each other and cannot be viewed separately.1 Because good mental health is difficult to define (even though specific mental conditions may be identifiable), this indicator reflects women’s own sense of mental well-being by tracking reporting of the average number of days during the past 30 days that their mental health was “not good.”
What is the average number of mental health days during the past 30 days that were “not good” for women?
Research did not uncover a standard benchmark about the acceptable number of “not good” mental health days, so the states are ranked and not graded on this indicator.
| State | State Overall Data | State Grade | State Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 4.9 | 49 | |
| Alaska | 3.5 | 11 | |
| Arizona | 4.1 | 33 | |
| Arkansas | 4.6 | 46 | |
| California | 4.2 | 38 | |
| Colorado | 3.7 | 16 | |
| Connecticut | 3.8 | 22 | |
| Delaware | 3.5 | 11 | |
| District of Columbia | 3.1 | 5 | |
| Florida | 3.9 | 29 | |
| Georgia | 3.4 | 8 | |
| Hawaii | 3.0 | 4 | |
| Idaho | 3.9 | 29 | |
| Illinois | 4.0 | 32 | |
| Indiana | 4.2 | 38 | |
| Iowa | 2.9 | 2 | |
| Kansas | 3.4 | 8 | |
| Kentucky | 5.3 | 51 | |
| Louisiana | 4.1 | 33 | |
| Maine | 4.1 | 33 | |
| Maryland | 3.6 | 13 | |
| Massachusetts | 3.7 | 16 | |
| Michigan | 4.4 | 41 | |
| Minnesota | 3.2 | 7 | |
| Mississippi | 4.8 | 48 | |
| Missouri | 4.6 | 46 | |
| Montana | 3.8 | 22 | |
| Nebraska | 3.1 | 5 | |
| Nevada | 4.5 | 43 | |
| New Hampshire | 3.4 | 8 | |
| New Jersey | 3.6 | 13 | |
| New Mexico | 3.8 | 22 | |
| New York | 3.8 | 22 | |
| North Carolina | 4.5 | 43 | |
| North Dakota | 2.8 | 1 | |
| Ohio | 4.4 | 41 | |
| Oklahoma | 5.1 | 50 | |
| Oregon | 3.8 | 22 | |
| Pennsylvania | 4.1 | 33 | |
| Rhode Island | 3.7 | 16 | |
| South Carolina | 4.1 | 33 | |
| South Dakota | 2.9 | 2 | |
| Tennessee | 3.9 | 29 | |
| Texas | 4.2 | 38 | |
| Utah | 3.7 | 16 | |
| Vermont | 3.8 | 22 | |
| Virginia | 3.8 | 22 | |
| Washington | 3.7 | 16 | |
| West Virginia | 4.5 | 43 | |
| Wisconsin | 3.6 | 13 | |
| Wyoming | 3.7 | 16 |
Data Source: Days Mental Health Was "Not Good" in Past 30 Days (%), 2009.
EXPLANATION: This measure includes the mean number of days during the past 30 days that women age 18 and older in the non-institutionalized civilian population report that their mental health was “not good.”
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data (BRFSS), 2009, available at http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/index.asp, analyzed by Quality Resource Systems, Inc.
Footnotes
1 James Lando and others, “A Logic Model for the Integration of Mental Health Into Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,” Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, 3 (April 2006), 1, available at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1563949&blobtype=pdf
