The Healthiest And Unhealthiest States - Forbes.com
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The Healthiest And Unhealthiest States
Rebecca Ruiz, 11.17.09, 12:01 AM ESTNew England states top this new set of rankings, while the South still lags.
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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 RANK CHANGE OVER 20 YEARS
Top 10 Smoking Bottom 10 Smoking 1Rhode Island 41West Virginia 2Virginia 42Illinois 3Maryland 42Montana 4Florida 44Idaho 5Delaware 45South Carolina 6Vermont 46Indiana 7Connecticut 47Nebraska 8New Hampshire 48Wisconsin 9Arizona 49Utah 9Michigan 50Missouri 9Nevada
Top 10 Obesity Bottom 10 Obesity 1Connecticut 41Georgia 2Rhode Island 41South Carolina 3Massachusetts 43Missouri 4Florida 44South Dakota 5Wyoming 45Ohio 6Colorado 46Kentucky 7Indiana 47Mississippi 8Vermont 48Oklahoma 9Nevada 49Tennessee 10Idaho 50Alabama
Overall Change - Top 10 Overall Change - Bottom 10 1New York 41Louisiana 2Vermont 42South Carolina 3Hawaii 43Tennessee 4New Hampshire 44Arkansas 5Minnesota 45Ohio 6New Jersey 46Alabama 7Oregon 47Kentucky 8Alaska 48Mississippi 9Washington 49West Virginia 10Massachusetts 50Oklahoma
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I'm going to Vermont to get skinny!
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