Missouri Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a high rate of high school graduation with 81.0 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate within four years
• A moderate rate of uninsured population at 12.6 percent

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of smoking at 24.9 percent of the population
• Low public health funding at $42 per person
• Many poor physical health days per month at 3.8 days in the previous 30 days.

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the infant mortality rate decreased from 8.1 to 7.5 deaths per 1,000 live births.
• In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 14.7 percent to 18.7 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 50.5 percent to 76.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 11.9 percent to 29.0 percent of the population.