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America's Health Rankings started in 1990 and is the longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis. It is founded on the World Health Organization holistic definition of health, which says health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
From 2013 County Health Ratings data, residents who live in rural U.S. food deserts are more likely to have poorer health than those who live in urban food deserts. People who live in rural communities have significantly lower scores in the areas of health behavior, morbidity factors, clinical care, and physical environment.
Data is for 2023 and comes from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. Data was examined for the largest 100 cities for which data was available. Cities are mapped to county-level.
Food insecurity is defined at a household level, of not having adequate food for any household member due to finances. The step beyond this is very low food security, which is having six (for families without children) to eight (for families with children) or more food insecure conditions in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Security Supplement Survey.
Emmet and Charlevoix counties were ranked among the healthiest in Michigan in a recent report.
The report was produced by County Health Rankings, a University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute program. The goal of the program is to provide data, evidence and guidance to build ...
Living in a food swamp can be considered a type of food insecurity since according to the USDA Economic Research Service, low food security is defined as “reduced quality, variety, or desirability of diet” with “little or no indication of reduced food intake,” and food swamps have very little quality and variety of diet. [24]
May 5—Frederick County ranks among the healthiest counties in Maryland in a report compiled by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The ...