Kansas Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include few poor mental and physical health days per month at 2.9 days and 3.2 days in the previous 30 days
• A low incidence of infectious disease at 7.6 cases per 100,000 population
• A low prevalence of binge drinking at 14.1 percent of the population.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include low public health funding at $41 per person, limited availability of primary care physicians with 101.2 primary care physicians per 100,000 population
• A high occupational fatalities rate at 6.7 deaths per 100,000 workers.

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the number of poor mental health days increased from 2.6 to 2.9 days in the previous 30 days.
• In the past five years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 22.6 percent to 28.0 percent of the population.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 35.7 percent to 78.2 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 30.2 percent to 17.8 percent of the population.