New York Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

New York is 25th this year; it was 26th in 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.

Strengths include ready availability of primary care physicians with 169.4 primary care physicians per 100,000 population
High public health funding at $115 per person
Low geographic disparity within the state at 8.0 percent
A low infant mortality rate at 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births

Challenges include a high incidence of infectious disease at 35.8 cases per 100,000 population
Low high school graduation rate with 67.4 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate within four years
A high percentage of children in poverty at 20.3 percent of persons under age 18.
New York ranks lower for health determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may decline over time.

In the past year, immunization coverage decreased from 83.0 percent to 76.2 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 21.6 percent to 16.7 percent of the population.
In the past ten years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 16.3 percent to 25.1 percent of the population.
Since 1990, the violent crime rate decreased from 1,007 to 398 offenses per 100,000 population.