Monday 14 December 2015

Indiana still has lots of room for improvement on health care

WASHINGTON — Indiana continues to rank among the lowest-performing states on measures of health status and health care systems, despite recent improvements in some areas, such as increased insurance coverage for kids, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund.

Indiana also kept its low rank in a second analysis released this week, the latest health tracking report from the United Health Foundation.

Only nine states ranked lower on that report, which has tracked a decline in health determinants and outcomes in Indiana since the 1990s.

In recent years, Indiana improved on the percentage of adults who aren’t physically active, on preventable hospitalizations for Medicare patients and on infant mortality rates. For the full article click here 



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