Author: Larry Smith, PhD

  • Uninsured Adults by County | 2025 Update

    Uninsured Adults by County | 2025 Update

    To download the print-friendly version, click here. | To view previous publications, click here. This fact sheet provides the number and percentage of adults, ages 18-64, without health insurance at the county level in Mississippi. The most recent data for 2023 is compared to data for the year 2020. Under…

  • Mississippi 2025 County Rankings | Issue Brief 2025

    Mississippi 2025 County Rankings | Issue Brief 2025

    For the past 15 years, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has led the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, with primary funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This program provides data to help local communities improve…

  • Drug Overdose Deaths in Mississippi

    Drug Overdose Deaths in Mississippi

    Up 52.3% from April 2020 to April 2021The National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Vital Statistics Rapid Release of Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts at the US and State level.