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Measuring the well-being of children – Key National Indicators 2010

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

A recent edition of the America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being report, published each year since 1997 by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, presents updated results with regards to the well-being of children and families living in the USA.

The report covers several children and youth well-being domains such as: family and social environment, economic circumstances, healthcare, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. Its purpose is to provide statistical information on children and families in an easy-to-use format in order to stimulate discussion among data providers, policy makers and members of the public (The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2010).

Children ages 0–17 covered by health insurance at some time during the year by type of health insurance, 1987–2008

Source: The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (2010)

Children with health insurance (public or private) are more likely than children without insurance to have a regular and accessible source of health care.

The figure above indicates that in 2008, 90% of children had health insurance coverage at least some time during the year, while the number of children without coverage at any time during the year reached up to 7.3 million. The percentage of children with public health insurance increased with 2% since 2007, reaching up to 33% in 2008.

Among other statistically significant results within the report are:

The decrease in births to adolescents, from 22.2 per 1,000 girls ages 15–17 to 21.7 per 1,000
Eighth graders’ average mathematics scale score increased, from 281 to 283
The proportion of youth ages 16–19 neither enrolled in school nor working increased from 8% to 9%.

References:

The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics 2010, America’s Children In Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010, available at: http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp (accessed 06 September 2010)

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Metrics reflecting the health insurance coverage in the U.S.A.

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The Gallup Daily tracking analysis, Health Insurance Coverage Varies Widely by Age and Income, underlines the wide degree of variability in 2009 in health insurance coverage across U.S. population segments, based on age and income. Health insurance coverage is one of the most important Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) used to track the health of the national healthcare system (smartkpis.com, 2010).

Source: Newport, 2010

As indicated by the graphic above, the health insurance coverage is generally lowest in Americans’ mid-twenties and strongly related to income, ranging from a low of 44% among 35-year-olds making less than $24,000 a year to 100% among seniors in their 70s making more than $24,000 a year (Newport, F 2010).

An average of 16.2% of American adults lacked health insurance coverage in 2009, increasing up from 14.8% in 2008. The analysis indicates that lack of health insurance coverage is due to two main reasons:

voluntary decision to do without
economic circumstances, including lack of access to employer-paid insurance.

Source: Mendes, 2010

An average of 39.9% hispanics lack healthcare coverage, this representing more than double the current national average. This level of the indicator makes hispanics the most likely demographic segment of the adult population to be uninsured. From 2008 to 2009, the percentage of uninsured low-income Americans, Hispanics, and blacks increased by 2.9 percentage points (Mendes, E 2010).

The results of the analysis are based on telephone interviews with more than 353,849 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2009.

Resources:

Newport, F 2010, Health Insurance Coverage Varies Widely by Age and Income, available at: http://www.gallup.comhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/126143/health-insurance-coverage-varies-widely-age-income.aspx/poll/126143/health-insurance-coverage-varies-widely-age-income.aspx (accessed 19 July 2010)

Mendes, E 2010, More Americans Went Uninsured in 2009 Than in 2008, available at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/124973/Americans-Went-Uninsured-2009-2008.aspx (accessed 19 July 2010)

smartkpis.com 2010, % Health Insurance Coverage, available at: http://www.smartkpis.com/kpi-key-performance-indicator/Health-insurance-coverage-2668.html (accessed 20 July 2010)

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