New Hampshire Health Insurance
How Healthy is your State?
New Hampshire is 5th this year; it was 6th in 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.
The Good News
- Strengths include a low percentage of children in poverty at 8.6 percent of persons under age 18
- High immunization coverage with 85.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations
- Low geographic disparity within the state at 5.7 percent
- Low premature death rate with 5,749 years of potential life lost before age 75 per 100,000 population
- A low infant mortality rate at 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The Challenge for Health Care in your State
- Challenges include moderate public health funding at $59 per person
Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State
- In the past year, immunization coverage decreased from 93.2 percent to 85.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
- In the past five years, the infant mortality rate increased from 4.4 to 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births.
- In the past ten years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 15.6 percent to 24.8 percent of the population.
- Since 1990, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 30.7 percent to 17.0 percent of the population.
Learn about United Health Foundation's review of New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
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