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Life expectancy is a common indicator that can help examine the health of a community, state or country. , Longer life expectancy may...
Healthiest Communities News & Analysis
The U.S. fetal mortality rate in 2020 remained relatively unchanged from 2019, reaching 5.74 deaths at 20 weeks of gestation or more per...
This year’s release of the U.S. News & World Report Healthiest Communities rankings offers an insightful look at the state of health equity...
Few communities in the U.S. confronted the arrival of the novel coronavirus better prepared than Los Alamos County. The New Mexico community had...
Few communities in the U.S. confronted the arrival of the novel coronavirus better prepared than Los Alamos County. The New Mexico community had...
For Dr. Vian Nguyen, one of the more harrowing moments of Hurricane Harvey in 2017 came when she fielded an emergency call about...
Nine of Maryland‘s 24 counties or county equivalents landed in the top 500 of the 2022 Healthiest Communities rankings, including two that ranked...
Until last year, Georgia’s Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days. That meant the Medicaid benefits of many women...
SACRAMENTO — In January, progressive California Democrats vowed to adopt the toughest COVID vaccine requirements in the country. Their proposals would have required...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a light on the mental health crisis we are facing in this country and forced us to prioritize...