Indiana Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a low rate of uninsured population at 11.9 percent
• A low incidence of infectious disease at 8.9 cases per 100,000 population
• Low geographic disparity within the state at 8.5 percent.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of smoking at 26.0 percent of the population
• High levels of air pollution at 13.2 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter
• Low public health funding at $36 per person and a high percentage of children in poverty at 23.3 percent of persons under age 18.
• Indiana 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 rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 83.2 to 78.6 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 13.7 percent to 23.3 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 41.8 percent to 78.4 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.