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Big names like Hollywood
and Los Angeles are what people
think when they are talking about California.
However, big cities like these are not the best places in California
when it comes to health issues.
A recent health report ranked the Los
Angeles County,
home to Hollywood, 28th,
among 56 ranked counties. This was behind San Diego
county (18) and San Franciso county (24). The first place went to Marin
County in northern California.
The report, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps for 2012 summarizes the
state of health nationwide.
County
Health Rankings (www.countyhealthrankings.org) is Published
by the University of Wisconsin
Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. The Rankings help counties understand what
influences how healthy residents are and how long they will live. The
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program includes the County
Health Rankings project, launched in 2010, and the newer County Health
Roadmaps project that mobilizes local communities, national partners and
leaders across all sectors to improve health.
The County Health Rankings rank the health of
nearly every county in the nation and show that much of what affects health
occurs outside of the doctor’s office. The County Health Rankings
confirm the critical role that factors such as education, jobs, income, and
environment play in how healthy people are and how long they live.
The Rankings look at a variety of measures that affect health such as the rate of people dying before age 75, high school graduation rates, access to healthier foods, air pollution levels, income, and rates of smoking, obesity and teen births. These measures, in turn, can be influenced by policies and programs in a particular area. The Rankings, based on the latest data publically available for each county, are unique in their ability to measure the overall health of each county in all 50 states on the multiple factors that influence health.
The Rankings look at a variety of measures that affect health such as the rate of people dying before age 75, high school graduation rates, access to healthier foods, air pollution levels, income, and rates of smoking, obesity and teen births. These measures, in turn, can be influenced by policies and programs in a particular area. The Rankings, based on the latest data publically available for each county, are unique in their ability to measure the overall health of each county in all 50 states on the multiple factors that influence health.
California 2012 - County Health Rankings
1 Marin (MR)
2 Santa
Clara (ST)
3 San
Benito (SN)
4 Placer (PL)
5 San
Mateo (SE)
6 Orange (OR)
7 Yolo (YO)
8 Nevada
(NE)
9 El
Dorado (EL)
10 Santa
Cruz (SC)
11 Colusa (CO)
12 Sonoma
(SM)
13 San
Luis Obispo (SP)
14 Napa
(NA)
15 Monterey
(MT)
16 Ventura
(VE)
17 Contra Costa
(CN)
18 San Diego (SD)
19 Santa
Barbara (SR)
20 Plumas (PU)
21 Alameda
(AL)
22 Amador (AM)
23 Calaveras
(CA)
24 San Francisco (SF)
25 Sutter (SU)
26 Tuolumne
(TO)
27 Glenn (GL)
28 Los Angeles (LO)
29 Mono (MN)
30 Lassen (LS)
31 Sacramento
(SA)
32 Riverside
(RI)
33 Solano (SO)
34 Mariposa (MI)
35 Imperial (IM)
36 Stanislaus
(SL)
37 San
Joaquin (SJ)
38 Merced
(MC)
39 Mendocino
(ME)
40 Kings (KI)
41 San
Bernardino (SB)
42 Fresno
(FR)
43 Shasta (SH)
44 Butte
(BU)
45 Madera
(MA)
46 Modoc (MO)
47 Tulare
(TU)
48 Humboldt (HU)
49 Kern (KE)
50 Inyo (IN)
51 Yuba (YU)
52 Lake
(LA)
53 Tehama (TE)
54 Siskiyou (SY)
55 Del Norte
(DE)
56 Trinity (TR)
NR Sierra (SI)
NR Alpine (AP)
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