Report finds Kansas may need improvements in child healthcare

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – A latest report discovered that the Sunflower State might have some extra work to do in terms of the sector of kid healthcare.

With a mean of $6,100 spent per 12 months on employer-sponsored household protection and Each Child Wholesome Week starting on April 24, personal-finance web site WalletHub.com says it launched its report on 2023′s Greatest & Worst States for Youngsters’s Well being Care on Tuesday, April 11.

To be able to discover which states supply essentially the most cost-effective and high-quality healthcare for kids, WalletHub mentioned it in contrast all 50 states and Washington, D.C., primarily based on knowledge units that vary from share of youngsters aged 0 – 17 in wonderful or excellent well being to pediatricians and household docs per capita.

The report ranked Kansas thirty sixth total with a complete rating of 49.07. The Sunflower State ranked thirty ninth for teenagers’ well being and entry to healthcare, twenty eighth for teenagers’ diet, bodily exercise and weight problems, and twentieth for teenagers’ oral well being.

Colorado ranked seventeenth total with a complete rating of 56.16. It ranked twenty fifth for teenagers’ well being and entry to healthcare, sixth for teenagers’ diet, bodily exercise and weight problems, and twenty fourth for teenagers’ oral well being.

Missouri ranked 18th total with a complete rating of 56.03. It ranked 14th for teenagers’ well being and entry to healthcare, twenty fourth for teenagers’ diet, bodily exercise and weight problems, and fortieth for teenagers’ oral well being.

Nebraska ranked nineteenth total with a complete rating of 55.48. It ranked 18th for teenagers’ well being and entry to healthcare, twenty second for teenagers’ diet, bodily exercise and weight problems, and tenth for teenagers’ oral well being.

Lastly, Oklahoma ranked forty fourth total with a complete rating of 45.93. It ranked forty third for teenagers’ well being and entry to healthcare, forty seventh for teenagers’ diet, bodily exercise and weight problems and forty eighth for teenagers’ oral well being.

The report additionally discovered that Nebraska had the best share of youngsters with wonderful or excellent well being whereas Colorado had the fifth highest. Oklahoma had the fifth-lowest share of uninsured kids.

WalletHub additionally mentioned that Nebraska had the fifth-highest share of youngsters with unaffordable medical payments whereas Kansas tied North Dakota for the fourth-highest. Nebraska had the fifth-most pediatricians and household docs per capita whereas Kansas had the second-fewest.

Lastly, the report discovered that Colorado had the second-lowest share of overweight kids. Nebraska tied Maine for the fifth-highest share of youngsters with wonderful or excellent tooth.

The report discovered the places which can be greatest for kids’s well being are:

1. Massachusetts
2. Washington, D.C.
3. Rhode Island
4. Vermont
5. Hawaii

The report discovered the states which can be worst for kids’s well being are:

1. Mississippi
2. Texas
3. Louisiana
4. Wyoming
5. Indiana

For extra data or to see the place different states fall, click on HERE.

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