Vermont Health Near The Top

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Created on Friday, 18 March 2016 17:58

Written by Alex Pinkham

Around the Northeast Kingdom - Two studies released show details of how healthy the Green Mountain State actually is. According to the United Health Foundation, Vermont is the second healthiest state, Hawaii was the healthiest. A Wisconsin Study just came out with details that the healthiest place in the Green Mountain state is Chittenden County. The least healthiest county is Orleans.

This year makes the seventh year the Robert Wood Johnson and the University of Wisconsin have teamed up to make these ratings. These findings are based off of four criteria witch are health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and physical environment.

"This is actually for the states this the is the third year in a row we are number two," said Laural Ruggles of the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital. "And if you go back a due years before that we were actually number one."

Over all Caledonia County came out in seventh. This is two spaces higher then last years results. According to the study health concerns like premature death, smoking, and obesity are more common in rural areas then in urban ones.

"Every three years we do a community health assessment where we are looking at what are the health needs in our communities, what you should be working on and the county health rankings are something we look at," said Laurel Ruggles.