FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Division of Public Health Statistics & Performance Management

An improved County Health Profile report delivers graphs to illustrate data
2014 cancer incidence data has been added, effecting more than 274 health indicators in CHARTS
A new display of STD and HIV/AIDS data now provides ages, race and ethnicity breakouts.

In 2015, 82.4% of men and 80.8% of women said their health was good or excellent.
In 2015, 73.5% of men and 82.0% of women reported they had a personal doctor.
In 2015, the top three leading causes of death for men were heart diseases, cancer and unintentional injury.
Men’s age adjusted homicide by firearms death rate at 8.2 per 100,000 was more than six times that of women at 1.3 per 100,000 in 2015
In 2015, 70.1% of men and 57.9% of women were overweight or obese.
About one in four men (25.4%) in Florida reported that they were sedentary in 2015.
In 2015, 21.9% of men reported they engaged in heavy or binge drinking compared with 13.4% of women.
Of the adults living with HIV in Florida through 2015, 16% were Caribbean-born.
In 2015, 79% of the adult HIV infection cases were male, compared to 71% in 2006.
The relative increase in male HIV cases in recent years might be attributed to increases in HIV transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM).

You can get data about HIV/AIDS cases by risk group by selecting Mode of Transmission
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance data can be filtered for men and women using the “Select Dimension” option
Use the Change Groupings feature in FloridaCHARTS.com viewer windows to compare health statistics for men and women
Using CHARTS Query systems, you can compare health statistics for men and women by moving the filter for “sex” to the column area.