Healthiest Counties in California Announced

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Recently, the County Health Rankings for the state of California were recently released, and the figures revealed a great deal of information on the living conditions in the different counties. Marin County topped the list as the overall healthiest county in the state for the seventh year in a row.

The study measured the overall health of counties measuring a number of factors including graduation rates, access to healthy foods, obesity, smoking rates, and teenage births. Marin County (15.74% Latino population) placed highest in life expectancy, had high rates of adults with good body weights, and low rates of violent crime and unemployment.

“Community investments such as reserving land for open space and social norms around healthy eating and staying active have helped [Marin County] maintain our raking,” said Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “However, the rankings also reflect major disparities across Marin and help us know where we need to prioritize our work. For example, we need to focus on increasing equity in health care coverage, access to health food, early childhood education, and job training so everyone has an opportunity to optimize his or her health.”

In California city rankings, San Francisco performed well in both health outcomes and health factors while Los Angeles performed poorly in both.

Read more about the report here.

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