Miami-Dade ranks in top 5 healthiest Florida counties

[d_legendary1]

Miami-Dade County took the No.5 spot among the healthiest counties in the Sunshine State, according to an annual County Health Rankings report released Wednesday.

St. Johns County, home to St. Augustine, ranked first for overall health outcomes, followed by Collier, Martin, Seminole and then Miami-Dade counties. Monroe County placed ninth and Broward ranked 15th for overall health outcomes.

The rankings, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, compare 30 factors that influence health, including exercise, access to care, education and jobs.

Miami-Dade placed first for length of life and health behaviors, which includes factors such as adult smoking, obesity, teen births, alcohol-impaired driving deaths and excessive drinking.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article16274657.html


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Likes working there, hates living there.

[darkangel218]

1. No idea how they do that

With all the pollution and over development. Not to mention the illegals and uninsured down there.

[valerief]

2. Only one county of the five in the oil-spill Gulf Coast. nt

[d_legendary1]

3. Except that Miami faces the Atlantic Ocean...

Now if it were Cape Coral, Naples, Tampa, or Bradenton that would be a different story.

[valerief]

4. Right. That's one of the four counties facing the Atlantic.

One county faces the oil-slicked gulf.

[d_legendary1]

5. The good news is that our drinking water doesn't come from the Gulf

The bad news is that the people who bathe in that water and the animals that live in it well....
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