National Healthcare Measures: A lot of Improvement Overshadowed By Obesity and Diabetes
By Clive Riddle, March 16, 2017
What’s striking is that despite our marked improvement in most topics
during the past two decades, the percentage of persons reporting they
had excellent health didn’t improve (although half a percentage point
better than ten years ago, it is two percentage points lower than twenty
years ago.)
The culprits in the case must be due in a large part to the fact we
living large(er). Two topics below in which increasing percentages
aren’t a good thing are obesity and diabetes, but increase we did. We
can make policy and administrative changes that impact the percentage of
people with insurance, access care,
receive vaccinations, promote exercise and promote smoking cessation.
Obesity and Diabetes seem tougher
to tackle.
·
Percentage of persons without health
insurance coverage: 2017
9.0% | 2007 14.5% | 1997 15.4%
·
Percentage of Persons With a Usual
Place to go for Medical Care (Age adjusted):
2017 88.1% | 2007
86.5% | 1997 86.3%
·
Percentage of persons of all ages who
failed to obtain needed medical care due to cost at some time during the
past 12 months (Age Adjusted): 2017 4.4% | 2007 5.8% | 1997 4.5%
·
Percentage of adults aged 65+ who
received an influenza vaccination during the past 12 months (Age
Adjusted): 2017 70.6% | 2007
66.8% | 1997 63.1%
·
Percentage of adults aged 65 and over
who had ever received a pneumococcal vaccination (Age Adjusted):
2017 69.9% | 2007 57.8% | 1997 42.6%
·
Prevalence of obesity among adults
aged 20 and over (Age Adjusted):
2017 31.4% | 2007 26.6% | 1997 19.5%
·
Percentage of adults aged 18 and over
who met 2008 federal physical activity guidelines for aerobic activity
through leisure-time aerobic activity (Age Adjusted):
2017 54.8% | 2007 42.0% | 1997 43.3%
·
Prevalence of current cigarette
smoking among adults aged 18 and over (Age Adjusted):
2017 14.3% | 2007 19.7% | 1997 24.6%
·
Percentage of persons of all ages who
had excellent or very good health:
2017 66.5% | 2007 66.0% | 1997 68.5%
·
Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among
adults aged 18 and over: (Age Adjusted):
2017 8.4% | 2007 7.5% | 1997 5.3% |
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