From Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children (http://www.papartnerships.org):
The State of Children’s Health Care report uses various health indicators to provide a data-driven snapshot of children’s health care in Pennsylvania – its successes, limitations and challenges – to help monitor the impact health care reform is having on physical and behavioral health care for children.
PPC completes a year-to-year comparison as well as comparing the most recent year’s data to the base year of 2010, which was prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act, to determine whether children are receiving more quality services.
Key findings from our 2017 report:
- The one-year comparison of the number of uninsured children declined from 139,000 children to 111,000 children, reducing the uninsured rate from 5.2% to 4.1%. In addition, when comparing the most recent year’s data with the prior year, the report showed progress in areas such as testing for lead screening and children getting immunized, while most other areas showed no significant change.
- When comparing the most recent data to baseline data from 2010, the number of uninsured children decreased from 144,000 (5.2%) children to 111,000 (4.1%). All areas either showed improvement or had no significant change, except for emergency room visits, which showed a decline in performance, meaning children accessed emergency rooms at an increasing rate.
For more information on what services were measured and the significance of those measures, visit: www.papartnerships.org/work/health/childrens-health-reports.
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