Access to health care services & the affordability of health insurance are crucial to overall health!
States that fare worse on our healthcare rankings tend to have higher costs for less access and higher rates of medical conditions like diabetes & obesity.
We did our own research...
1. West Virginia
Worst States for Health Outcomes
2. Mississippi
3. Louisiana
4. Tennessee
5. Kentucky
Metrics for Measurements on our Page!
1. West Virginia: 41.3
States With Most Diabetes Mortalities per 100,000 Residents
2. Mississippi: 41.0
3. Arkansas: 33.8
4. Louisiana: 33.1
5. Oklahoma: 32.8
Metrics for Measurements on our Page!
1. West Virginia: 125.6
States With the Highest Rates of Preventable Deaths per 100,000 Residents
2. Tennessee: 88.7
3. Kentucky: 88.2
4. New Mexico: 88.0
5. Maine: 85.1
Metrics on our Page!
1. Utah: 98.7
States With the Fewest Primary Care Providers per 100,000 Residents
2. Idaho: 99.2
3. Nevada: 101.6
4. Texas: 109.0
5. Montana: 110.3
Metrics for Measurements on our Page!
Methodology
To rank healthcare quality by state, we used health outcomes, cost and access to care data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, CDC and HealthData.gov.