Rhode Island Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

Rhode Island is 10th this year, unchanged from 2008, according to United Health Foundation's 2009 Study.

Strengths include a low prevalence of obesity at 22.0 percent of the population
A low violent crime rate at 249 offenses per 100,000 population
Ready availability of primary care physicians with 169.6 primary care physicians per 100,000 population
Low geographic disparity within the state at 6.8 percent.
Rhode Island ranks higher for determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness should improve over time.

Challenges include a high prevalence of binge drinking at 18.0 percent of the population
A high rate of preventable hospitalizations with 78.5 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.

In the past year, the rate of uninsured population increased from 9.7 percent to 11.3 percent.
In the past five years, the incidence of infectious disease decreased from 20.7 to 13.7 cases per 100,000 population.
In the past ten years, immunization coverage increased from 58.5 percent to 79.5 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations.
Since 1990, the prevalence of smoking declined from 34.4 percent to 17.3 percent of the population.