Rank State Score
1 Minnesota 24.3
1 New Hampshire 24.3
3 Utah 19.5
4 Vermont 19.0
5 Massachusetts 16.3
6 Connecticut 14.7
7 Iowa 14.6
8 Maine 13.8
9 Colorado 13.7
10 Hawaii 13.4
11 Washington 12.9
12 North Dakota 12.5
13 Rhode Island 12.1
14 Wisconsin 11.7
15 South Dakota 11.5
16 Nebraska 10.1
17 Idaho 9.0
18 New Jersey 8.9
19 Oregon 8.8
20 Kansas 8.3
21 Virginia 6.9
22 California 5.7
23 Wyoming 5.2
24 Pennsylvania 4.1
25 Montana 2.8
26 Ohio 2.2
27 Indiana 1.9
28 Michigan 1.8
29 Maryland 0.8
30 Illinois 0.4
31 New York -0.5
32 Arizona -2.1
33 Missouri -2.7
34 Delaware -3.4
35 Texas -3.8
36 Nevada -4.6
36 North Carolina -4.6
38 Alaska -5.5
39 Kentucky -7.0
40 New Mexico -7.5
41 Georgia -7.6
42 Florida -10.8
43 Alabama -11.1
44 West Virginia -11.3
45 Oklahoma -12.1
46 Tennessee -13.2
47 Arkansas -14.2
48 South Carolina -15.5
49 Louisiana -19.5
50 Mississippi -22.0
*Scores presented in this table indicate the percentage a state is above or below the national norm.
The rankings were based on a state-by-state analysis of several public health statistics supplied by the federal government and other sources. Those factors included risk factors that are indicators of behaviors and activities that are related to the healthiness of a population, including:
*Prevalence of smoking
*Motor vehicle deaths
*Violent crime
*Risk for heart disease
*High school graduation
*Children in poverty
*Adequacy of prenatal care
*Lack of heath insurance
*Financial support for public health care
The analysis also included measures of death and disease, such as:
*Occupational fatalities
*Limited activity days
*Heart-related deaths
*Cancer deaths
*Infectious disease cases
*Total deaths per 100,000 population
*Infant mortality
*Premature death
JonnyTheDamned
Baltimore, MD
February 2003
NOV 18, 2003 05:28 PM