Cleveland ranks among top 5 big cities for teen births, maternal smoking, gonorrhea incidence, heart disease and cancer mortality

Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus ranked poorly for lung cancer mortality and maternal smoking among the 54 largest cities in the United States. The Big Cities Health Inventory 2007 report, released in November 2007, provides comparisons of health indicators.

The Big Cities Health Inventory 2007 provides comparisons of health indicators among the 54 largest cities in the U.S., including Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit and Pittsburgh. Developed by NACCHO, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, these reports illustrate variations in morbidity and mortality rates among the major cities participating in the survey. The report can be accessed by clicking here.

Indicators include HIV, STD (sexually transmitted disease) and tuberculosis rates, suicides, homicide, firearm- and motor vehicle-related mortality, diabetes, pneumonia and influenza related mortality.

Additional data by sex, race and ethnicity are available in the report.

NACCHO reports that the following Ohio cites fared poorly among several indicators, including:

Chlamydia Incidence (rates), 2005, rankings among 43 cities

Cleveland: 7th

Columbus: 22nd

Cincinnati: 2nd

Gonorrhea Incidence (rates), 2005, rankings among 43 cities

Cleveland: 2nd 

Columbus: 20th

Cincinnati: 1st

Overall Mortality (rates), 2004, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 7th

Columbus: 12th

Cincinnati: 10th

Heart Disease Mortality  (rates), 2004, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 5th

Columbus: 26th

Cincinnati: 27th

Cancer Mortality  (rates), 2004, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 5th

Columbus: 7th

Cincinnati: 6th

Lung Cancer Mortality  (rates), 2004, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 4th

Columbus: 3rd

Cincinnati: 9th

Female Breast Cancer Mortality  (rates), 2004, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 5th

Columbus: 28th

Cincinnati: 6th

Low Birth weight Birth Rates, 2003, rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 6th

Columbus: 15th

Cincinnati: 8h

Mothers Under Age 20  (rates), 2003 rankings among 54 cities

Cleveland: 2nd

Columbus: 29th

Cincinnati: 8th

Mothers Who Smoke (rates), 2003 rankings among 44 cities

Cleveland: 4th

Columbus: 6th

Cincinnati: 7th