Alabama Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a low prevalence of binge drinking at 11.4 percent of the population
Low geographic disparity within the state at 8.6 percent
• High public health funding at $97 per person.
• Alabama ranks higher for health determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may improve over time.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of obesity at 32.2 percent of the population
• High levels of air pollution at 13.5 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter
• A high percentage of children in poverty at 23.7 percent of persons under age 18

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the rate of uninsured population declined from 13.6 percent to 11.9 percent.
• In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 25.3 percent to 22.1 percent of the population.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 45.8 percent to 76.3 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 12.3 percent to 32.2 percent of the population.