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The lower a state’s overall ranking, the worst it performed in 24 metrics spanning four categories: healthcare access, healthcare outcomes, healthcare cost and quality of hospital care. Georgia ...
A recent analysis from Better Benefits Guide looked at all 50 states and ranked them from best to worst for healthcare based on a number of hospitals per million residents, physicians per 10,000 ...
Reproductive care and women’s health also played a significant role in how states were ranked. (The fallout of the overturn of Roe v. Wade occurred in 2022, while the scorecard data ends at 2021.)
America's Health Rankings started in 1990 and is the longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis. It is founded on the World Health Organization holistic definition of health, which says health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
In 2007, Washington state's health rank climbed to 12th from 15th in America's Health Rankings, becoming one of five states to earn the title of "most improved state." [ 12 ] In 2008, Washington claimed a spot in the top ten, ranking 10th in WHF's 2008 Report Card. [ 13 ]
“Ranking health care systems is complex,” Boyd said. “The state with the highest ranking overall is first in access and outcomes but is ranked 24th in cost.
Bloomberg finds "the U.S. spends the most on health care on a relative cost basis with the worst outcome" [5] and notes Cubans live longer than Americans, but Americans pay more than fourteen times as much for less effective health care. The Commonwealth Fund ranked seven developed countries on health care, the US ranked lowest [6] (AU, CA, DE ...
Here are the best and worst states in each of the four categories analyzed: primary care shortages, percentage of population without health insurance coverage, the number of pharmacies per 100,000 ...