posted on December 5, 2006 01:46:39 PM newMinnesota tops list in health rankings
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Writer Tue Dec 5, 6:00 AM ET
WASHINGTON - An annual report released Tuesday put Minnesota at the top of its health rankings for the fourth straight year, while concluding that the nation's health improved slightly.
The report by United Health Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit foundation funded by the health care company UnitedHealth Group, said Americans are 0.3 percent healthier than they were a year ago.
The report is based on factors such as personal behaviors, the environment people live and work in, decisions by public and elected officials, and the quality of medical care delivered by health professionals.
Examples include smoking, motor vehicle deaths, high school graduation rates, children in poverty, access to care and incidence of preventable disease.
Dr. Reed Tuckson, senior vice president of the United Health Foundation, called the report a "call to action for all of us" to make the nation healthier.
"We can do better and our children deserve better," he said.
Minnesota, which has held the top spot in 11 of the 17 years of the survey, was cited for, among other things, its low rate of uninsured (8.4 percent), low percentage of children in poverty (10 percent), and low infant mortality rate (5.1 deaths per 1,000 live births).
Vermont was second on the list, followed by New Hampshire, Hawaii and Connecticut. At the other end, the report listed Louisiana as the least-healthy state, followed by Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.
posted on December 5, 2006 08:41:05 PM new
Kiara, 3 reasons we're healthy....germs feeze to death, we live so close to that healthy country of Canada , and we're a blue state....... oh, and we live clean healthy SOBER lives
posted on December 6, 2006 04:57:37 AM new
bebeboom,
I think the study was done on mental illness in the red states. It was all the Bushy Supporters that scored so poorly your fine. LOL
Seriously, when are people going to realize we need a better health care system in this country. Its true lots of people don't go to the Doctors because they don't have insurance or money until its too late.
posted on December 6, 2006 05:21:18 AM new
The unfortunate aspect of this report is that Americans on average are only 0.3 percent healthier than last year. This increase does not keep pace with increases in previous years. And the report points out that the U.S. continues to trail other nations in healthy life expectancy and infant mortality.
Factors in the poor rating include the persistence of tobacco use, obesity and of course the increasing number of uninsured Americans. Lack of insurance diminishes preventative health care and availability of medical care when needed.
The report points out that 35 other nations have infant survival rates that are better than or equal to that of the United States.
posted on December 6, 2006 09:50:17 AM new
Those like helen who continue to DENY WHY our numbers look worse than other countries......have had it explained to them over and over again.
Do they want the ACTUAL FACTS? Nope....the FACTS don't help them with their socialistic agendas for national health care.
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Articles like this can be found by the HUNDREDS on the internet....for any who don't wish to remain in DENIAL of the facts.
I, myself have posted them over and over again....obviously to NO avail. Some people are just too dense to grasp FACTS.....or just to much into getting sometime for FREE for themselves....they refuse to even look at the FACTS. tsk tsk tsk
They prefer to use International numbers where it's obvious to any intelligent person....the numbers AREN'T accumulated in the same manner. DUH
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Behind the Baby Count
By Bernadine Healy M.D.
Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006
We're a nation of beautiful babies. In a remarkable achievement, the loss of babies during their first year of life has plummeted by almost 70 percent since 1970. Yet the nation's infant mortality rate is used time and again as evidence of America's failed health system.
Just last week, the Commonwealth Fund issued a score card that flunked U.S. health system performance with newborns. The reason? Our current infant mortality rate of 6.4 per 1,000 live births is high compared with the 3.2 to 3.6 per 1,000 estimated for the three top-scoring countries in the world-Iceland, Finland, and Japan. It's also higher than the 6 deaths per 1,000 for the European community as a whole.
Before putting on the hair shirt, let's take a look behind these numbers as these comparisons have serious flaws.
They also convey little about why we lose nearly 28,000 babies a year, a starting point if we want to bring universal health to our nation's cradles.
First, it's shaky ground to compare U.S. infant mortality with reports from other countries. The United States counts all births as live if they show any sign of life, regardless of prematurity or size. This includes what many other countries report as stillbirths.
In Austria and Germany, fetal weight must be at least 500 grams (1 pound) to count as a live birth; in other parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, the fetus must be at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. In Belgium and France, births at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy are registered as lifeless. And some countries don't reliably register babies who die within the first 24 hours of birth. Thus, the United States is sure to report higher infant mortality rates.
For this very reason, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which collects the European numbers, warns of head-to-head comparisons by country.
Infant mortality in developed countries is not about healthy babies dying of treatable conditions as in the past. Most of the infants we lose today are born critically ill, and 40 percent die within the first day of life. The major causes are low birth weight and prematurity, and congenital malformations.
As Nicholas Eberstadt, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, points out, Norway, which has one of the lowest infant mortality rates, shows no better infant survival than the United States when you factor in weight at birth.
posted on December 6, 2006 10:28:58 AM new
And on the OP posts....LOL LOL LOL
ANYONE can get ANY stats they want to....ALL will depend on just WHAT circumstances were taken into factoring THEIR own silly reports.
Have nationalized health care is NOT going to change ANYTHING about crime rates....and those, along with other self serving items will change the reports REAL quick.
Most Dangerous States, 2006
2006 rank State 2005 rank
1.Nevada 1.
2.Louisiana 2.
3.New Mexico 9.
4.Arizona3.
5.Maryland4.
6.South Carolina5.
7.Florida6.
8.Tennessee7.
9.Alaska8.
10.California10.
11.Texas11.
12.Michigan12.
13.Georgia13.
14.Oklahoma14.
15.Arkansas22.
16.Washington20.
17.North Carolina18.
18.Alabama19.
19.Illinois16.
20.Missouri21.
21.Mississippi17.
22.Colorado24.
23.Ohio23.
24.Delaware15.
25.Kansas26.
26.Hawaii25.
27.Oregon28.
28.Indiana27.
29.Pennsylvania30.
30.Massachusetts29.
31.New York31.
32.New Jersey32.
33.Kentucky37.
34.Nebraska35.
35.Minnesota36.
36.Utah34.
37.Virginia38.
38.Rhode Island33.
39.Connecticut39.
40.Idaho41.
41.West Virginia44.
42.Montana40.
43.Iowa43.
44.Wisconsin42.
45.South Dakota46.
46.Wyoming45.
47.New Hampshire47.
48.Vermont49.
49.Maine48.
50.North Dakota50.
Source: Morgan Quitno Press. Web: www.morganquitno.com
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so....put in different citeria and you'll get different results.
Citeria having NOTHING to do with health care.....doesn't make anyone more 'healthy'.
posted on December 6, 2006 10:38:03 AM new
Well I'm batting a thousand...I live in the second least healthy state and 11 miles from the border of the second most dangerous state..time to move me thinks....
posted on December 6, 2006 10:38:09 AM new
The above and this was taken from 'infoplease.com'
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Healthiest States, 2006
2006 rank State 2005 rank
1.Vermont2.
2.New Hampshire1.
3.Minnesota4.
4.Maine5.
5.Iowa6.
6.Massachusetts3.
7.Nebraska9.
8.Utah7.
9.Connecticut10.
10Hawaii8.
11.North Dakota11.
12.Kansas15.
13.Rhode Island12.
14.Wisconsin14.
15.Oregon19.
16.New Jersey16.
17.South Dakota22.
18.Idaho20.
19.California18.
20.Washington13.
21.Virginia17.
22.West Virginia28.
23.Michigan23.
24.Ohio26.
25.Wyoming30.
26.Kentucky32.
27.Montana25.
28.Indiana24.
29.Pennsylvania21.
30.North Carolina33.
31.New York31.
32.Colorado27.
33.Illinois34.
34.Missouri36.
35.Maryland29.
36.Arkansas40.
37.Delaware35.
38.Tennessee38.
39.Alaska37.
40.Arizona39.
41.Florida44.
42.Alabama41.
43.South Carolina43.
44.Georgia42.
45.Oklahoma46.
46.Texas45.
47.Nevada47.
48.Louisiana50.
49.New Mexico48.
50.Mississippi49.
Methodology: The Healthiest State designation is awarded on the basis of 21 factors selected from the 2006 edition of Morgan Quitno's annual reference book, Health Care State Rankings. These factors reflect access to health care providers, affordability of health care, and the general health of a state's population.
Source: Morgan Quitno Press. Web: www.morganquitno.com
posted on December 6, 2006 10:39:43 AM new
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posted on December 6, 2006 10:28:58 AM new
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And on the OP posts....LOL LOL LOL
ANYONE can get ANY stats they want to....ALL will depend on just WHAT circumstances were taken into factoring THEIR own silly reports.""""
And who should know that better than YOU! LOL!
The crime rate ????Wha ..???? Where'd THAT come from...your pipe???
posted on December 6, 2006 10:42:10 AM new
lol maggie. Why DID you choose to move there in the first place?
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I personally think that's one of the good things about these reports that compare cities, states, etc. When one looks at ALL of them...one can see certain 'truths'...IF most show the same results. When they don't...then who really knows.
posted on December 6, 2006 10:54:20 AM new
I understand that, but since he is gone so much....seems to me you could live anywhere close by and he'd still be able to fly home. No???
posted on December 6, 2006 11:08:52 AM new
Don't think I haven't considered it...every hurricane season when my bags are packed and I'm ready to run...
posted on December 6, 2006 11:56:21 AM new
Syphilis!!! I thought that had died in the olden days.. it still exists? Good Lord...
Oh and judging by my walmart.. Mississippi has the majority of the fattest lard asses in the country. The isles are filled with those electric chair/carts carting fat people around.
posted on December 6, 2006 12:02:16 PM new
Walmart is fat person heaven.
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posted on December 6, 2006 03:12:47 PM new
yea ginger-the profe is right-I can go into walmarts in the middle of the day-in the middle of the week here in NY,and its hog heaven.The places gross's me out.Every time I leave the place,I have to go home a take a shower.Ive been going to target lately which is a lot nicer.
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posted on December 6, 2006 05:47:10 PM new
Their food is cheaper.The only reason I use to go in there was the coffee I bought was $4.97 a pound-the same coffee at the A&P was 9.75.
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posted on December 6, 2006 05:53:43 PM new
Their aisles are nice and wide, and they carry lots of "plus" sizes.
Not that I have any problem with fat people. Quite the contrary, I know that most of them have a glandular problem and that being grotesquely overweight is NOT a choice. They were born obese. Their parents are obese. Their kids are little fatties too. It has nothing to do with their sedentary life style and the fact that they consume processed carbohydrates by the BALE.....Really it doesn't.
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posted on December 9, 2006 11:24:59 AM newwe're a blue state
Not yet. All of the health issue laws that matter were passed when we were a red state. We don't officially become a depressing blue state for another month. Thank heavans we still have a non-liberal as Govenor. We have to keep the state under control.
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