Maine Health Insurance
How Healthy is your State?
Maine is 9th this year; it was 12th in 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.
The Good News
- Strengths include a low violent crime rate at 118 offenses per 100,000 population
- A low rate of uninsured population at 9.6 percent
- Low geographic disparity within the state at 7.8 percent
- Ready availability of primary care physicians with 129.3 primary care physicians per 100,000 population.
- Maine ranks higher for determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness should improve over time.
The Challenge for Health Care in your State
- Low public health funding at $61 per person
- Low immunization coverage with 76.2 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State
- In the past year, public health funding increased from $51 to $61 per person.
- In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 23.7 percent to 18.1 percent of the population.
- In the past ten years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 17.4 percent to 25.8 percent of the population.
Learn about United Health Foundation's review of Maine.
Maine Department of Health and Human Services
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