Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
Information on the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance, SSI, Refugee, and other cash assistance.
If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
Children's Special Health Care Services information and FAQ's.
Information on assistance with home repairs, heat and utility bills, relocation, home ownership, burials, home energy, and eligibility requirements.
Information on the Food Assistance Program, eligibility requirements, and other food resources.
Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
Information on the Children's Protective Services Program, child abuse reporting procedures, and help for parents in caring for their children.
Information on adoption programs, adoption resources, locating birth parents and obtaining information from adoption records.
Information on Adult Protective Services, Independent Living Services, Adult Community Placement Services, and HIV/AIDS Support Services.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
Information on the Children's Foster Care program and becoming a Foster Parent.
Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
Information on treatment and services for juvenile offenders, success stories, and more.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Division of Environmental Health (DEH) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Resources and information to assist in assuring firearm safety for families in the state of Michigan.
The Division of Victim Services (DVS) provides a voice advocating for and responding to all victims of crime in Michigan. Learn more about DVS-funded programs and services, including Michigan’s 24/7, free, confidential, and anonymous domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
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Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
Information on communicable & chronic diseases.
Home to an array of public health programs, initiatives and interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, infants, families and communities.
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Bridge Card Participation Information on Electronic Benefits for clients and businesses, lists of participating retailers and ATMs, and QUEST.
Provider Payments Information on the direct deposit of State of Michigan payments into a provider's bank account.
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Michigan Statewide Systems of Care
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
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Welcome. This page provides reports and data on physical activity, nutrition and weight, heart health, and stroke in Michigan, including how these issues affect people living with HIV. To access more information about any of these topics, simply click on one of the headings below.
For more information about the surveillance and evaluation work of the MDHHS Cardiovascular Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity Section, contact Stephanie Levey at 517-335-9595 (e-mail: LeveyS@michigan.gov).
Are you looking for our Cardiovascular Disease Dashboard? You'll find it on our Michigan Cardiovascular Disease Dashboard page. The dashboard provides quick access to indicators at the state and county level, as well as demographics and selected comorbidities and controllable risk factors. It includes three main sections:
(June 2022) (March 2022) (February 2020) (August 2019)
Note: Clicking on the image will open a full-size version of the Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality in Michigan trend chart. (November 2020) (January 2020) (rev. April 2024) (October 2019) (rev. April 2024)
High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy, Michigan, 2016-2019 (March 2022)
This presentation reports on hypertension among people who had a live birth using Michigan Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (2016-2019). Results include hypertension burden overall and by selected characteristics, maternal risk factors and comorbidities, and complications to mom and newborn.
Michigan Medicaid: Antihypertensive Medication Adherence among Adult Beneficiaries (18-64 Years Old), by County, 2016-2018 Combined (November 2020)
This summary provides antihypertensive medication (AHM) adherence prevalence estimates among adult Michigan beneficiaries ages 18-64 years who took antihypertensive medication from 2016 to 2018. (See Methods.) AHM disparities are also reported by selected demographic characteristics and county.
This map shows county-level high blood pressure medication adherence rates among adult Michigan Medicaid members, along with the average number of yearly members in 2015–2016. This map was developed as a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention GIS Capacity Building Project. Learn more about the project.
Source: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services: Michigan Advanced GIS Training: Map Details — Medicaid Members and High Blood Pressure (HBP) Medication Adherence Rates
This map highlights the existence of major geographic disparities in blood pressure medication adherence, even within the Medicaid population. This map was developed as a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention GIS Capacity Building Project. Learn more about the project.
Source: Michigan Department of Health and Human Services: Michigan Advanced GIS Training: Map Details – Relative Differences in High Blood Pressure (HBP) Medication Adherence among Medicaid Members, by County
Estimated Hypertension Prevalence among Michigan Adults (2015 and 2017 Combined) (November 2020)
These data tables provide estimated hypertension prevalence among Michigan adults ages 18 and older for 2015 and 2017 combined (both unadjusted and age-adjusted), based upon self-reported data from adult respondents to the Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance survey. Hypertension prevalence is presented by selected demographic characteristics, including age group, gender, race/ethnicity, education level, and disability status, as well as by race/ethnicity and age group combined.
[1] 95% Confidence Interval
[2] Latinx – Latino or Latina; Non-Hispanic Other/Multiracial – Non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Multiracial
Source: Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2015 and 2017 Combined)
Cholesterol awareness questions are included on the Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey on odd-numbered years. This includes two questions:
The most recent results for Michigan can be found on page 18 at the following link: Michigan 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Annual Report or in the 2019 Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Selected Tables.
Additional data about cholesterol is available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/maps_data.htm.
Michigan's efforts to improve outcomes for individuals who suffer a stroke focus on improving treatment and communication across the continuum of stroke care. This includes emergency medical services (EMS), hospitals, and rehabilitation settings.
More information about this work can be found on the Michigan Stroke Program website. Dashboards, surveillance briefs, and other data resources related to stroke in Michigan can be accessed on the Michigan Stroke Program website's Data Dashboards & Briefs page.
The Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (MiBRFSS) is composed of annual, state-level telephone surveys of Michigan residents, aged 18 years and older. This is a main data source for physical activity, nutrition, and weight status.
The national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) consists of annual surveys (i.e., BRFS) conducted independently by the states, District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, and is coordinated through cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Michigan Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System or PRAMS is a project that, with help from our partners at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), gathers high-quality, population-based data about maternal attitudes and experiences before, during and after pregnancy. With the data collected from this survey, we can help improve the health of mothers and their babies throughout the State of Michigan.
The Michigan Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is a supplemental nutrition program that helps women, infants and children through an important time of growth and development. The WIC Data and System Management provides access to system release information, WIC research, reports and system policies. and processes. Maternal WIC Data and Reports provides information including PNSS and PedNSS reports that contain information on the demographic composition and health status of women and health outcomes of infants and children enrolled in the WIC Program and breastfeeding reports.
We are still constructing this section. Please check back soon for additional information. In the meantime, data and statistics about HIV in Michigan are available on the MDHHS HIV & STDs Data & Statistics webpage.
Program evaluation is the systematic collection and analysis of data to examine whether public health activities are achieving their intended outcomes. Evaluation is important, because it helps us improve our programs and spend our resources wisely.
For more information on program evaluation, see the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Program Performance and Evaluation Office website. Materials specific for evaluation of heart disease and stroke prevention can be found on the CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Evaluation Resources webpage.
Evaluation documents produced from our work can be found below.
(2018)State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors and Promote School Health (1305)
CDC's 1305 grant opportunity, State Public Health Actions to Prevent and Control Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Associated Risk Factors, and Promote School Health, was a coordinated effort between three MDHHS program areas and the Michigan Department of Education. Health Impact Statements for each of the program areas are available below.
School Health
(2019) (2019)Physical Activity and Nutrition
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
(2019) (2019)Diabetes
(2019) (2019)
Looking for even more data? Check out the resources below.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's How Healthy is Your State? widget allows you to see state-based data compared with national data related to cholesterol, diabetes, heart attacks, high blood pressure, nutrition, obesity, physical activity, stroke, and tobacco use.
You can use this interactive widget to explore recent data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and see how Michigan compares to the nation as a whole for these health-based indicators.
▶ This widget is part of the CDC Healthy Living Widgets series. Download it and see the other widgets in the series at the CDC Healthy Living Widgets page.
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