Minnesota Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Minnesota is among the top ten states on 11 of the 22 measures.
• Strengths include a low premature death rate with 5,595 years of potential life lost before age 75 per 100,000 population
• A low infant mortality rate at 5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births
• A low rate of uninsured population at 8.5 percent
• A low occupational fatalities rate at 3.1 deaths per 100,000 workers.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include low public health funding at $41 per person
• A moderate prevalence of binge drinking at 17.2 percent of the population.
• Minnesota 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, immunization coverage decreased from 84.7 percent to 77.4 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 9.7 percent to 15.6 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 16.2 percent to 25.1 percent of the population.