Nebraska Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

Nebraska is 16th this year; it was 9th in 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.

Strengths include a high rate of high school graduation with 87.0 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate in four years
Few poor mental and physical health days per month at 2.5 days and 2.7 days in the previous 30 days
Low levels of air pollution at 8.0 micrograms of fine particulate per cubic meter

Challenges include a high prevalence of binge drinking at 18.6 percent of the population
Low immunization coverage with 74.8 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
Nebraska ranks lower for determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may decline over time.

In the past year, immunization coverage decreased from 85.2 percent to 74.8 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 11.0 percent to 16.2 percent of persons under age 18.
In the past ten years, the prevalence of smoking declined from 22.0 percent to 18.3 percent of the population.
Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 11.6 percent to 27.2 percent of the population.