The U.S. News Healthiest Communities Rankings List Los Alamos County, New Mexico as the Healthiest Community in the Nation.
How well and even how long you live can be shaped by where you live.
What makes Los Alamos county the healthiest county in the nation, and why don’t any of the other counties in New Mexico make it to this list? The introduction to this health equity tool suggests the points to look at in a community, and a way to remedy this or replicate those points in other communities, “Knowing how such factors interact to create a healthier community — or a sicker one — is an important first step toward targeting resources where they’ll do the most good.”
Tools like this can help to empower citizens, health care leaders and officials to make decisions about policies and practices that can improve health outcomes for all of our counties.
Explore the rankings tool here: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/rankings
