Total, Wisconsin’s well being is above common in US

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A reader despatched Ask Wisconsin Watch a query about how the state compares with different states in numerous classes associated to transportation, schooling, well being care, parks and native funding. Right here’s a have a look at how well being and wellness ranks in Wisconsin.

Throughout numerous measures of well being and wellness, Wisconsin ranked twenty second primarily based on knowledge from America’s Well being Rankings’ 2023 annual report. On the horizontal axis, the graphic signifies what proportion of individuals within the state are impacted by the problem. The specifics of every measure may be discovered right here. Wisconsin’s worst rankings have been in weight problems, housing with lead danger, racial disparities in untimely demise and low birthweight and extreme, heavy and binge ingesting. 

Extreme ingesting is the share of adults who reported binge or heavy ingesting. Binge ingesting is 4 or extra drinks on one event for females and 5 or extra drinks for males. Heavy ingesting is outlined as eight or extra drinks per week for females and 15 or extra for males.

In contrast with the nationwide common of 18.4% of adults, 21.6% of adults in Wisconsin drink excessively. In line with the Nationwide Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, extreme ingesting could cause long-term injury to the guts, liver, pancreas and immune system. It has additionally been linked to a number of types of most cancers. Revisit our previous protection of Wisconsin’s lethal downside with extreme ingesting.

Wisconsin additionally ranked forty ninth, tied with Michigan, for cash spent on public well being. The nationwide common was $183 per individual — Wisconsin and Michigan each spent $128 per individual.

Wisconsin ranked properly in crowded housing, most cancers screenings, voter participation and highschool commencement charges. The nationwide common voter participation was 59.5% whereas 67.3% of eligible voters in Wisconsin participated within the final presidential and nationwide midterm elections.

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