Iowa Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a high rate of high school graduation with 86.9 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate within four years
• A low rate of uninsured population at 9.4 percent
• A low infant mortality rate at 5.2 deaths per 1,000 live births
• Few poor mental and physical health days per month at 2.8 days and 3.1 days in the previous 30 days

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of binge drinking at 20.1 percent of the population
• Limited availability of primary care physicians with 83.9 primary care physicians per 100,000 population.
• Iowa 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, public health funding increased from $45 to $51 per person.
• In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 21.7 percent to 18.7 percent of the population.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 47.7 percent to 77.3 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 12.8 percent to 26.7 percent of the population.