Access includes rates of insurance coverage for all children and for children at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Data are two-year averages from the U.S. Census Bureau Current Population Surveys, from 2007 and 2006. Florida ranks last in the nation, 51st.
Quality includes indicators that measure three related components: receipt of the “right care,” coordinated care, and patientcentered care. Four of the seven quality indicators are taken from the State Scorecard and the remaining three are from the National Survey of Children’s Health, 2003, and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2001. Data for both surveys were assembled and analyzed by the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative and are available at http://www.childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx. Florida ranks 37th.
Costs includes annual per capita personal health spending and annual private health insurance premiums. Data are taken from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services National Health Statistics Group and the Kaiser Family Foundation’s State Health Facts, available at http://www.statehealthfacts.org/. Florida ranks 34th.
Equity includes differences in performance associated with family income level, type of insurance, or race or ethnicity. The two outcome measures used were percent of children with a medical home and percent of children with at least one preventive medical and dental visit in the past year. Data are taken from the State Scorecard. Florida ranks 43rd.
Potential to Lead Healthy Lives includes indicators that measure the degree to which a state supports children’s potential to live long and healthy lives. The two indicators include infant mortality rates and rates of young children at risk for developmental delays. The mortality data are from the State Scorecard and developmental delay risk data are from the National Survey of Children’s Health, 2003. Florida ranks 38th.
Overall rank 50th, barely above Oklahoma.