County Health Rankings

Post date: Apr 03, 2017 1:45:4 PM

StarNewsOnline.com shared about a valuable resource CountyHealthRankings.org:

"A new survey released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows New Hanover County moved up three spots from the year prior. It’s now at No. 11 among North Carolina’s 100 counties in the group’s annual county health rankings.

Published online at www.countyhealthrankings.org, the rankings help counties understand what influences how healthy residents are and how long they will live. Factors used to build a portfolio for the health of each county is based on a variety of factors such as quality of life, high school graduation rates, access to healthy foods, rates of smoking, obesity, and teen births.