TAILIEUCHUNG - America’s Health Starts With Healthy Children: How Do States Compare?

The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, a nationally representative survey of 4,350 adults age 19 and older, presents new information on the health insurance coverage of Americans and the health and financial consequences families face when they experience breaks in insurance. The survey, conducted between August 2005 and January 2006, finds that while the lowest-income families have always been most at risk of not having insurance coverage, more moderate- and middle-income earners and their families are also in jeopardy. In addition, one of five of all adults under age 65 is currently paying off debt from medical bills. | America s Health Starts With Healthy Children How Do States Compare ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION Commission to Build a Healthier America October 2008 Executive Summary Introduction Page 5 Page 2 A National Overview Page 13 How Do States Compare A State Snapshot North Carolina All State Profiles Page 18 Page 24 statedata Reaching America s Health Potential Starts With Healthy Children How Do States Compare All parents want their children to grow up to live long healthy lives yet unfortunately not all children have the same opportunity to be healthy. Factors such as where children live how much education their parents have and their race and ethnicity can make a real difference in their health as children and as adults. America s children are this nation s greatest resource yet tremendous health differences exist among them gaps that contradict the premise of equal opportunity for all Americans undermine our economic productivity and affect our ability to compete globally. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America is examining how we live our lives and how the surrounding social economic and physical environment can affect our health. Based on this inquiry the Commission will identify specific feasible steps to improve all Americans health. This chartbook America s Health Starts With Healthy Children How Do States Compare examines the health of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds in every state to document how healthy our nation s children are now and how healthy they could be if we as a nation were realizing our full health potential. Why a chartbook on children s health Research has consistently shown that brain cognitive and behavioral development early in life are strongly linked to health outcomes later in life including cardiovascular disease and stroke high blood pressure diabetes obesity smoking drug use and depression. The right opportunities in early childhood can put a child on the

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