ICYMI How healthy is your state? A new report breaks it down A new report by the United Health Foundation ranks 35 factors that impact health. Dec. 13, 2017Wednesday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics health rankings If you live in Massachusetts, you may have some new bragging rights. The New England state has been named the healthiest one in which to live this year, according to a new report from the United Health Foundation. If you’re from Mississippi, however, you may be singing the blues. The Magnolia State was at the bottom of the rankings, with Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and West Virginia also in the bottom five. The report ranks states on 35 factors that impact health, such as infant mortality rates, vaccination levels, poverty levels and environmental pollution. The analysis also highlights public health challenges throughout the U.S. The rankings, called America’s Health Rankings®, was built upon the World Health Organization definition of health: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” For more on the findings, STAT has the story here. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleSurgeon awarded resident of the year in hospital where he was born Next articleWhat disabled physicians bring to medicine
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