North Carolina Health Insurance
How Healthy is your State?
North Carolina is 37th this year, unchanged from 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.
The Good News
- Strengths include a low prevalence of binge drinking at 12.6 percent of the population
- A low occupational fatalities rate at 4.8 deaths per 100,000 workers.
The Challenge for Health Care in your State
- Challenges include a high prevalence of obesity at 29.5 percent of the population
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- Low immunization coverage with 72.4 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations
Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State
- In the past year, the rate of uninsured population decreased from 17.2 percent to 15.9 percent.
- In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty decreased from 23.1 percent to 19.4 percent of persons under age 18.
- In the past ten years, the prevalence of obesity increased from 19.4 percent to 29.5 percent of the population.
- Since 1990, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 31.6 percent to 20.9 percent of the population.
Learn about United Health Foundation's review of North Carolina.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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