America's Health Rankings For 2008 Are In: Vermont Is Healthiest

America's Health Rankings For 2008 Are In: Vermont Is Healthiest in General Healthcare

UnitedHealth Foundation, a non-profit organization for improving health care, recently released their annual report from America’s Health Rankings for 2008. UnitedHealth Foundation was founded by UnitedHealth Group in 1999.

In the report, each U.S. state’s health is analyzed by various health metrics and ranked accordingly.

For 2008, Vermont is the healthiest state in the country — a title its held for two straight years by America’s Health Rankings.

Here are the top ten healthiest states:

     1. Vermont
     2. Hawaii
     3. New Hampshire
     4. Minnesota
     5. Utah
     6. Massachusetts
     7. Connecticut
     8. Idaho
     9. Maine
     10. Washington

And the ten lowest ranked states:

     50. Louisiana
     49. Mississippi
     48. South Carolina
     47. Tennessee
     46. Texas
     45. Florida
     44. Oklahoma
     43. Arkansas
     42. Nevada
     41. Georgia

The health metrics that America’s Health Rankings uses includes a range of health statistics such as:

• Prevalence of smoking
• Infectious diseases
• Children in poverty
• Population without health insurance
• Prenatal care quality
• Primary care physicians
• Preventable hospitalizations
• Infant mortality
• Cancer deaths

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