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	Compare by Region: The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.
	Compare by Average: This gauge shows how the Hawaii State value compares with the median or mean value for all counties in the state (or all US counties). The gauge is blue and white when being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad and is multi-colored when being higher (or lower) is good or bad.
	Compare by Time Period: This gauge shows whether the Hawaii State value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not the Hawaii State value meets a specific target. The Hawaii State value is represented by the left bar and the target value by the right bar.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not a specific target is met. A green check means the target is met and a red "X" means the target is not met.

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Red > 20.2
Green <= 16.6
In-between = Yellow
Unit: percent
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Adults without Health Insurance

Value:	7.2 percent
Measurement Period:	2007
Location:	State : Hawaii
Categories:	Health / Access to Health Services

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the percentage of adults aged 18-64 that do not have any kind of health care coverage.

Why this is important: Medical costs in the United States are extremely high, so people without health insurance may not be able to afford medical treatment or prescription drugs. They are also less likely to get routine checkups and screenings, so if they do become ill they will not seek treatment until the condition is more advanced and therefore more difficult and costly to treat. Many small businesses are unable to offer health insurance to employees due to rising health insurance premiums.

Technical note: The distribution for this indicator is based on BRFSS survey data from all 50 U.S. states.

Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

URL of Source: http://www.hhdw.org/

URL of Data: http://www.hhdw.org/cms/index.php?page=insurance-2

Time Series Data

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Unit: percent
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Adults without Health Insurance

Value:	7.2 percent
Measurement Period:	2007
Location:	State : Hawaii
Categories:	Health / Access to Health Services

What is this Indicator?
This indicator shows the percentage of adults aged 18-64 that do not have any kind of health care coverage.

Why this is important: Medical costs in the United States are extremely high, so people without health insurance may not be able to afford medical treatment or prescription drugs. They are also less likely to get routine checkups and screenings, so if they do become ill they will not seek treatment until the condition is more advanced and therefore more difficult and costly to treat. Many small businesses are unable to offer health insurance to employees due to rising health insurance premiums.

Technical note: The trend is a comparison between the most recent and previous measurement period. Confidence intervals were taken into account in determining the direction of the trend.

Source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

URL of Source: http://www.hhdw.org/

URL of Data: http://www.hhdw.org/cms/index.php?page=insurance-2

Time Series Data

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