How healthy is living in Nevada? For the second year in a row, the state is ranked as the 37th healthiest state, according to the 2013 edition of America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.
Why Nevada was ranked #37
The Silver State has a handful of notable healthy attributes including the lowest rates of pertussis and salmonella cases and the second lowest rate of infectious disease (based on three diseases).
On the negative side, the state had some of the worst rankings for violent crime, for drug-related deaths and residents who are uninsured.
For more details see the United Health Foundationslatest findings on Nevada.
Trust for Americas Health is another source for key Nevada health quality findings.
In addition, 2010s federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impactsNevada here.
Get local health results
State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Nevada, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.
Does Nevada have
a health insurance high risk pool?
IMPORTANT UPDATE: In 2010, Nevada started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. Learn about eligibility here.
Rapidly becoming obsolete as state health insurance exchanges prepare to open, risk pools were state-sponsored programs that helped people who could afford to buy health insurance, but were not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition.
Programs varied significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state were required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black.
In the best cases, they allowed people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.
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