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<br />69 <br /> <br />Healthy NC 2020 Objective Orange County North Carolina Target <br />Tobacco Use <br />Decrease the percentage of adults who are current smokers 16.8% 19.1% (2014) 13.0% <br />Decrease the percentage of high school students reporting current <br />use of any tobacco product 9% 22.5% (2011) 15.0% <br />Decrease the percentage of people exposed to secondhand smoke <br />in the workplace in the past seven days. 6.4% 9.7 %(2014) 0% <br />Physical Activity and Nutrition <br />Increase the percentage of high school students who are neither <br />overweight nor obese 78.0% 72.3% (2013) 79.2% <br />Increase the percentage of adults getting/ meeting CDC Aerobic <br />Recommendations 51.7% 48.1% (2013) 60.6% <br />Increase the percentage of adults who consume fruit one or more <br />times per day. 68.0% (2015)* 57.1% (2013) 69.7% <br />Increase the percentage of adults who consume vegetables one or <br />more times per day. 68.0% (2015)* 76.3% (2013) 84.7% <br />Injury and Violence <br />Reduce the unintentional poisoning mortality rate (per 100,000 <br />population) 6.7(2014) 12.5 (2014) 9.9 <br />Reduce the unintentional falls mortality rate (per 100,000 <br />population) 18.6 10.0 (2014) 5.3 <br />Reduce the homicide rate (per 100,000 population) 1.4 5.6 (2014) 6.7 <br />Maternal and Infant Health <br />Reduce the infant mortality racial disparity between whites and <br />African Americans 3.76 (2014) 2.39 (2014) 1.92 <br />Reduce the infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births 4.9 7.1 (2014) 6.3 <br />Reduce the percentage of women who smoke during pregnancy 6.6% 9.8%(2014) 6.8% <br />Sexually Transmitted Disease and Unintended Pregnancy <br />Decrease the percentage of pregnancies that are unintended County data <br />not available 42.7% (2011) 30.9% <br />Reduce the percentage of positive results among individuals aged <br />15 to 24 tested for chlamydia 8.5% (2011) 10.8%(2014) 8.7% <br />Reduce the rate of new HIV infection diagnoses (per 100,000 <br />population) 12.3 (2013) 16.0 (2013) 22.2 <br />Substance Abuse <br />Reduce the percentage of high school students who had alcohol on <br />one or more of the past 30 days 32% 32.2% (2013) 26.4% <br />Reduce the percentage of traffic crashes that are alcohol-related 6.1% 4.8% (2014) 4.7% <br />Reduce the percentage of individuals aged 12 years and older <br />reporting any illicit drug use in the past 30 days 9% 7.5% (2012-13) 6.6% <br />Mental Health <br />Reduce the suicide rate (per 100,000 population) 10.4 13.0 (2014) 8.3 <br />Decrease the average number of poor mental health days among <br />adults in the past 30 days 2.5 3.6 (2014) 2.8 <br />Reduce the rate of mental health-related visits to emergency <br />departments (per 10,000 population) 82.1 104.5 <br />(2012) 82.8 <br />Oral Health <br />Increase the percentage of children aged 1–5 years enrolled in 55.7% (2009-58.0% (2013) 56.4%