Michigan Health Insurance
How Healthy is your State?
Michigan is 30th this year; it was 31st in 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.
The Good News
- Strengths include a low rate of uninsured population at 11.7 percent
- A low occupational fatalities rate at 3.8 deaths per 100,000 workers
- Low geographic disparity within the state at 9.0 percent.
The Challenge for Health Care in your State
- Challenges include a high prevalence of binge drinking at 18.1 percent of the population
- A high prevalence of obesity at 29.5 percent of the population
Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State
- In the past year, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 15.8 percent to 19.1 percent of persons under age 18.
- In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 26.1 percent to 20.4 percent of the population.
- In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 46.7 percent to 76.8 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
- Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 14.1 percent to 29.5 percent of the population.
Learn about United Health Foundation's review of Michigan.
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
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