There are many threads you can pull from the data that contributed to the study’s rankings, including statistics about health behaviors (alcohol and tobacco use, obesity rates), social and economic factors (education, employment, income, community safety), health care access and quality, and environmental factors, including air quality and access to healthy foods.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Rural Living May Be Hazardous To Your Health
from Civil Eats. What I found particularly useful in this article was a link accessing a study of healthy living by county for the US. The study was recently released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. So, check out how healthy your county is.