From http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/16/unhealthy-healthy-states-lifestyle-health-states-top_chart.html?partner=yahoohealth
New England states top this new set of rankings, while the South still lags.
This annual ranking, published by the United Health Foundation, looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths. (Insurer UnitedHealth Group funds the foundation.) Scores for each state are determined by gathering data from a variety of government and nongovernmental databases and then calculating how much each state is better or worse than the national average for each measure. Click here to see the report. The below chart lists the final results in addition to rank changes in specific categories over the past 20 years.
| 2009 STATE RANKINGS |
| 1Vermont |
| 2Utah |
| 3Massachusetts |
| 4Hawaii |
| 5New Hampshire |
| 6Minnesota |
| 7Connecticut |
| 8Colorado |
| 9Maine |
| 10Rhode Island |
| 11Washington |
| 12Wisconsin |
| 13Oregon |
| 14Idaho |
| 15Iowa |
| 16Nebraska |
| 17North Dakota |
| 18New Jersey |
| 19Wyoming |
| 20South Dakota |
| 21Maryland |
| 22Virginia |
| 23California |
| 24Kansas |
| 25New York |
| 26Montana |
| 27Arizona |
| 28Pennsylvania |
| 29Illinois |
| 30Michigan |
| 31New Mexico |
| 32Delaware |
| 33Ohio |
| 34Alaska |
| 35Indiana |
| 36Florida |
| 37North Carolina |
| 38Missouri |
| 39Texas |
| 40Arkansas |
| 41Kentucky |
| 42West Virginia |
| 43Georgia |
| 44Tennessee |
| 45Nevada |
| 46South Carolina |
| 47Louisiana |
| 48Alabama |
| 49Oklahoma |
| 50Mississippi |
We're No. 8 We're No. 8. But we're No. 1 for thinness.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say about Indiana's spot is that it is better than being in Mississippi.
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