Illinois Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a low occupational fatalities rate at 3.8 deaths per 100,000 workers
• Ready availability of primary care physicians with 129.1 primary care physicians per 100,000 population
• A high rate of high school graduation with 79.7 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate within four years.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of binge drinking at 19.4 percent of the population
• A high rate of preventable hospitalizations with 85.8 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees
• High levels of air pollution at 13.2 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter
• Illinois ranks lower for determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may decline over time.

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 14.3 percent to 19.3 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 57.2 percent to 78.1 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 10.9 percent to 26.8 percent of the population.