Population health How healthy is your community? U.S. News will tell you Areas in Colorado and Virginia scored high on US News’ list of the healthiest places to live in the country. April 2, 2018Monday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email With the aim of arming local, public health and federal officials with information that would allow them to make decisions to improve population health, editors at U.S. News & World Report recently undertook an ambitious project—evaluating the health of nearly 3,000 American counties. For the project, researchers scored counties in roughly 80 indicators, giving the heaviest weight to population health and equity. The publication recently published a list of the top 500 healthiest communities in America. Four counties in Colorado and three areas of Virginia made the top 10 list: Falls Church city, Virginia Douglas County, Colorado Broomfield County, Colorado Los Alamos County, New Mexico Dukes County, Massachusetts Fairfax city, Virginia Hamilton County, Indiana Routt County, Colorado Ouray County, Colorado Loudoun County, Virginia To see whether your community landed on the list and where it ranked, view the entire rankings list at U.S. News & World Report. More stories about rankings: UNECOM leads DO schools on U.S. News’ best med schools list Best and worst states for doctors in 2017: See how your state stacks up The 20 best hospitals in the US, according to U.S. News & World Report More in Lifestyle 3 DOs featured on recent episode of HGTV’s ‘Home Town’ The hosts of this popular renovation show transformed several rooms in a maternity ward in Laurel, Mississippi. Did you work in the service industry before becoming a physician? Working in nonmedical service industry jobs before medical school helps prepare us for the realities of practicing medicine, writes Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA. Previous articleBest and worst states for doctors in 2018: How's medicine where you live? Next articleStroke intervention team brings life-changing techniques to patients
3 DOs featured on recent episode of HGTV’s ‘Home Town’ The hosts of this popular renovation show transformed several rooms in a maternity ward in Laurel, Mississippi.
Did you work in the service industry before becoming a physician? Working in nonmedical service industry jobs before medical school helps prepare us for the realities of practicing medicine, writes Daniel J. Waters, DO, MA.