Findings from 2010 Ohio Family Health Survey released

The preliminary results of the 2010 Ohio Family Health Survey,  a telephone survey (including cell phones) of 8,276 adults and proxy responses for 2,002 children, was released at a public forum (click here for the slide presentation, pdf, 74 pages) last week.
 
Among the preliminary findings from the 2010 OFHS, are that:

• 15,283 more children reported being uninsured in 2010 than in 2008. However, Ohio’s child uninsured proportion of 4.6 percent is less than half the national average, which exceeds 10 percent.
• 1,364,064 working-age Ohioans, or 18.5 percent, report being uninsured. This is an increase of 143,709, or 46.5 percent, in the past two years.
• The percent of working-aged Ohioans who report receiving coverage through employers has fallen from 66.3 percent in 2004 to 57.4 percent in 2010, or 481,435 fewer adults with coverage through employers
• Medicaid enrollment has increased by 227,161 adults and 209,115 children between 2004 and 2010 (more than 55 percent of that increase occurred in the past two years) 

The OFHS is sponsored by a collaboration of state agencies: Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department of Health and Ohio Department of Insurance as well as the Health Policy Institute of Ohio and the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati.