How Healthy...

[Perknose]

Is your county?

 

[Vdubchaos]

“If you do what everyone else does, you get what everyone else gets.”

-- Sam Hinkie, Philadelphia 76ers GM.

"What everyone else gets, is not necessarily what you want"

 

[DesiPower]

So once I click on the state, the ranking is within the sate? That would suck as I know my state sucks when it comes to health, would be fun to know where we stand nationally...

 

[DesiPower]

“If you do what everyone else does, you get what everyone else gets.”

-- Sam Hinkie, Philadelphia 76ers GM.

"What everyone else gets, is not necessarily what you want"

How does this philosophy apply here? are you saying that we should not want to be healthy, as "healthy" defined by the govt standard?

 

[IronWing]

We're poor, fat, and lazy but have excellent access to healthcare.

 

[purbeast0]

where i live:

http://www.countyhealthrankings.org...gs/montgomery/county/factors/overall/snapshot

where i work:

http://www.countyhealthrankings.org...nkings/howard/county/factors/overall/snapshot

so pretty healthy in general around here.

not surprised baltimore is on the bottom of the list, because that city sucks ass.

EDIT:

when i change to "health outcomes" from "health factors" those 2 counties flip flop 1 and 2.

 

[smackababy]

My county has a very healthy murder rate!

 

[akugami]

Pennsylvania....rank 67 of 67...

 

[cabri]

State #1, County #2

 

[clamum]

Current county of Washtenaw is ranked #9 in the state for Health Outcomes and #1 for Health Factors.

Delta county, where I was born and raised, is ranked #40 and #15, respectively. The findings aren't surprising but the "error margin" is sure high for a lot of results; in many cases the value of the factor is within the error margin.

 

[DrPizza]

I'm perplexed by some of the things used to determine the ranking. "Access to exercise opportunities"? Apparently that means gyms, since it's one of the areas where my county ranks poorly. Yet, the county is filled with county and state forests where hiking trails abound, and tons of other types of opportunities.

And, percentage of people who drive to work alone? It's such a rural county, why would anyone carpool?

 

[Perknose]

Lol, my county, Bucks in Pa, has gone steadily downhill since 2011 -- from 6th to 7th to 9th to 10th to 12th.

 

[allisolm]

12 out of 67

 

[Captante]

2 out of 8. (Connecticut)

 

[Perknose]

I'm perplexed by some of the things used to determine the ranking. "Access to exercise opportunities"? Apparently that means gyms, since it's one of the areas where my county ranks poorly. Yet, the county is filled with county and state forests where hiking trails abound, and tons of other types of opportunities.

And, percentage of people who drive to work alone? It's such a rural county, why would anyone carpool?

Yeah, every single one of these "USA Today" level surveys contains tons of flawed assumptions applied to the data.

 

[Uppsala9496]

#3 in IL and where I am going to move to is #2.

 

[vi edit]

4th out of 120 in Kentucky. Should be higher but got murdered in the physical environment score.

Health Outcomes 4
Length of Life 5
Quality of Life 9
Health Factors 6
Health Behaviors 3
Clinical Care 2
Social & Economic Factors 46
Physical Environment 105

 

[Slew Foot]

I'm perplexed by some of the things used to determine the ranking. "Access to exercise opportunities"? Apparently that means gyms, since it's one of the areas where my county ranks poorly. Yet, the county is filled with county and state forests where hiking trails abound, and tons of other types of opportunities.

And, percentage of people who drive to work alone? It's such a rural county, why would anyone carpool?

liberals. people who dont live in big cities dont exist.

 

[SparkyJJO]

liberals. people who dont live in big cities dont exist.

If they think we don't exist then why can't they leave me alone?!

 

[IronWing]

liberals. people who dont live in big cities dont exist.

Of course people who don't live in big cities exist. We know this because they are mooching off the taxes paid by the big city workers who produce most of the actual wealth in our country.

 

[Bubbleawsome]

2nd!

 

[norseamd]

7th out of Minnesota.