Texas Health Insurance

How Healthy is your State?

The Good News

• Strengths include high immunization coverage with 78.6 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving complete immunizations
• Few poor mental days per month at 3.2 days in the previous 30 days.

The Challenge for Health Care in your State

• Challenges include a high rate of uninsured population at 25.1 percent
• A high percentage of children in poverty at 23.1 percent of persons under age 18
• Low public health funding at $47 per person
• A high incidence of infectious disease at 22.6 cases per 100,000 population
• Limited availability of primary care physicians with 95.0 primary care physicians per 100,000 population.
• Texas ranks lower for health determinants than for health outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may decline over time.

Most Recent Changes for Health Care in your State

• In the past year, the rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 87.6 to 81.2 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
• In the past five years, geographic disparity within the state increased from 12.2 percent to 15.3 percent.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 30.6 percent to 18.5 percent of the population.
• Since 1990, the prevalence of obesity increased from 12.3 percent to 28.9 percent of the population.