Mustary Akter
Professor: Karah Newton
URPN 370.500
October 14, 2016
The Health System Data As many of us know that, across the United States of America, the health care system has a wide variation in performance. From place to place and across the nation the performance of the health care system varies so much that it makes many people to move from one place to another to find a better health care system option. Depending on the place where someone lives determines the performance of the health care that they receive. The different performance in the health care system throughout the United States results in a different outcome. Using the outcome, the states can be ranked according to the performance of that state and the ranking can be useful …show more content…
One of the state was that had needed to be looked up on this website was Texas. In that website dimension and indicator was listed. According to the website the dimensions are the access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, and healthy lives, which are the general terms that they used to determine the ranking of a state. Within each dimension, indicators were listed which defined more specific information about what groups that they were focusing on to determine the ranking of a state. For example, in the dimension prevention and treatment, one indicator that was listed was adults ages 50 and older who received recommended screening and preventive care. According to this dimension and the indicator the rank of Texas was determined in this category. In this category, during 2015 scorecard performance Texas rank was 37%. Also, in this category Texas ranked 41% against the United States average and ranked 48% against the best state rate average. In average, the ranking of Texas in this category was …show more content…
If we compare Oklahoma to Texas then we can see that both of the sates ranked pretty close to each other. Compared to Texas, Oklahoma ranked 1% higher in state ranking in this category, which was 36%. However, Oklahoma and Texas ranked the same percentage of the United States average ranking and best state rate average, which was 41% and 48% for both of the states. The average of the ranking in this category of prevention and treatment for adults ages 50 and older who received recommended screening and preventive care, Texas ranked 42 while Oklahoma ranked 45, which is pretty bad for both of the states. Both states in this category have low ranking compared to their many categories and also overall these two states have low ranking in the health care
Professor: Karah Newton
URPN 370.500
October 14, 2016
The Health System Data As many of us know that, across the United States of America, the health care system has a wide variation in performance. From place to place and across the nation the performance of the health care system varies so much that it makes many people to move from one place to another to find a better health care system option. Depending on the place where someone lives determines the performance of the health care that they receive. The different performance in the health care system throughout the United States results in a different outcome. Using the outcome, the states can be ranked according to the performance of that state and the ranking can be useful …show more content…
One of the state was that had needed to be looked up on this website was Texas. In that website dimension and indicator was listed. According to the website the dimensions are the access, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use and costs, and healthy lives, which are the general terms that they used to determine the ranking of a state. Within each dimension, indicators were listed which defined more specific information about what groups that they were focusing on to determine the ranking of a state. For example, in the dimension prevention and treatment, one indicator that was listed was adults ages 50 and older who received recommended screening and preventive care. According to this dimension and the indicator the rank of Texas was determined in this category. In this category, during 2015 scorecard performance Texas rank was 37%. Also, in this category Texas ranked 41% against the United States average and ranked 48% against the best state rate average. In average, the ranking of Texas in this category was …show more content…
If we compare Oklahoma to Texas then we can see that both of the sates ranked pretty close to each other. Compared to Texas, Oklahoma ranked 1% higher in state ranking in this category, which was 36%. However, Oklahoma and Texas ranked the same percentage of the United States average ranking and best state rate average, which was 41% and 48% for both of the states. The average of the ranking in this category of prevention and treatment for adults ages 50 and older who received recommended screening and preventive care, Texas ranked 42 while Oklahoma ranked 45, which is pretty bad for both of the states. Both states in this category have low ranking compared to their many categories and also overall these two states have low ranking in the health care