The United Health Foundation released its annual report of the healthiest and unhealthiest states in the US. The report looks at 35 measuremnets including behaviors, community and environment, policy, clinical care and outcomes data. The yearly report measures progress and a drive action for improving public health.
Premature death rates, cardiovascular death, and drug deaths all increased in the US this year. Mortality rates also increased in many states. Massachusetts is ranked the healthiest state but has a large increase in the drug death rate this year.
This year’s report looked at the concentration of key health care providers and found wide variations across the country. Massachusetts has the highest concentration of mental health providers, Alabama has the lowest. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Rhode Island have more than 200 primary care physicians per 100,000 populations. Utah and Idaho have fewer than 100 primary care physicians per 100,000. Massachusetts and New Jersey have more than 80 dentists per 100,000 populations. Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Delaware have fewer than 45 dentists per 1000,000 populations.
Here is the rest of the line-up for Americas Health Ranking by State
1. Massachusetts
2. Hawaii
3. Vermont
4. Utah
5. Connecticut
6. Minnesota
7. Colorado
8. New Hampshire
9. Washington
10. New York
11. Rhode Island
12. New Jersey
13. Nebraska
14. Idaho
15. Iowa
16. Maryland
17. California
18. North Dakota
19. Virginia
20. Oregon
21. Wisconsin
22. Montana
23. Maine
24. South Dakota
25. Kansas
26. Wyoming
27. Illionois
28. Pennsylvania
29. Alaska
30. Delaware
31. Arizona
32. Florida
33. North Carolina
34. Texas
35. Michigan
36. New Mexico
37. Nevada
38. Indiana
39. Ohio
40. Missouri
41. Georgia
42. Kentucky
43. Oklahoma
44. South Carolina
45. Tennessee
46. West Virginia
47. Alabama
48. Arkansas
49. Louisiana
50. Mississippi
source: https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/2017annualreport.pdf
