HOW HEALTHY ARE HAWAIIANS TODAY?
Hawaiians suffer the worst health profile in Hawai'i.
Between 1980 and 1990, while rates of death from heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes decreased for non-Hawaiians, they increased, sometimes dramatically, for Hawaiians.Below 1 year of age, the Hawaiian death rate is more than double the overall state average.
Between 1 and 4 years of age, it is triple the state figure, and so on into adulthood.
Just under 20 percent of the population, we suffer 75 percent of the deaths for persons less than 18 years of age.
