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National Health Rankings are out - we're still getting heavier.

Want some fresh data on how Indiana is doing on Health Care?  The good news is that we didn't change our ranking.  The bad news is we're 12th from the bottom.

The Indiana Results:

Some summary statistics:

•While smoking has decreased from 26.9 percent to 21.2 percent of adults in the past ten years, over 1.0 million people still smoke in Indiana.

•Almost 1.5 million adults in Indiana are obese, 490,000 more individuals than 10 years ago.

•In the past year, the rate of preventable hospitalizations increased from 75.6 to 78.4 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.
 

•In the past year, the infant mortality rate decreased from 7.8 to 7.3 deaths per 1,000 live births.
 

•In the past five years, diabetes increased from 8.3 percent to 9.8 percent of the adult population. Now,478,000 Indiana adults have diabetes.
 

•In the past five years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 18.6 percent to 25.2 percent of persons under age 18.
 

•Infectious disease, at 7.8 cases per 100,000 population, has returned to levels experienced three years ago after dipping to 4.4 and 4.6 cases per 100,000 population in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
 

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