Arizona Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a low prevalence of smoking at 15.9 percent of the population
• A low rate of preventable hospitalizations with 55.8 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees
• Few poor physical health days per month at 3.2 days in the previous 30 days
• Low rates of deaths from cancer and cardiovascular disease, at 171.0 deaths and 239.9 deaths per 100,000 population, respectively.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high percentage of children in poverty at 26.2 percent of persons under age 18
• A high rate of uninsured population at 18.9 percent and limited availability of primary care physicians with 91.4 primary care physicians per 100,000 population.

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 61.5 to 55.8 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 20.8 percent to 15.9 percent of the population.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 51.2 percent to 79.2 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 10.8 percent to 25.5 percent of the population.