Foundations Announce County Rankings
April 5, 2010
Putnam and Saratoga Counties are the two healthiest in New York, while Sullivan County and the Bronx are the least healthy in terms of mortality and morbidity, according to a series of state and national rankings developed by the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
In addition to calculating health outcomes by county, the authors also issued rankings for health factors, which are made up of health behaviors (30%); clinical care (20%); social and economic factors (40%); and physical environment (10%). For the health behaviors subset of the health factors rankings, Westchester and New York Counties top the list, with Oswego and Jefferson Counties finishing last. The health behaviors category, in turn, is made up of tobacco use, diet and exercise, alcohol use and unsafe sex. For comprehensive county-based rankings across the nation, visit www.countyhealthrankings.org.