Oklahoma Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include a low prevalence of binge drinking at 12.3 percent of the population
• Strong public health funding at $100 per person.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high prevalence of smoking at 24.7 percent of the population
• A high prevalence of obesity at 30.9 percent of the population
• Limited availability of primary care physicians with 80.7 primary care physicians per 100,000 population
• A high rate of preventable hospitalizations with 90.3 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees
• Many poor mental and physical health days per month at 4.0 days and 4.2 days in the previous 30 days

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the rate of uninsured population decreased from 18.3 percent to 15.9 percent.
• In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 17.0 percent to 21.8 percent of persons under age 18.
• In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 42.3 percent to 73.6 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 11.6 percent to 30.9 percent of the population.