State Health Ranking, How Utah compares with Oklahoma in 30 Health categories?
State Health Ranking, How Utah compares with Oklahoma in30 Health categories?
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The Boy Scouts have a merit badge named Family Life. To earn the badge, age eleven to seventeen year old Scouts study their family. Each is asked to review healthy food and avoidance of substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, ‘’all of which negatively affect your health and well-being.’’
“The family is the basic unit of society and is important to both individuals and communities. The world is rapidly changing, making today’s society much more complex than ever before. As Scouts earn this merit badge, they will realize why it is important to know more about family life and how to strengthen their families. 2017 Boy Scout Requirements. Utah is among the most family friendly states. Utah used to be in competition with Oklahoma for some health categories. From the 1960 US Census, Oklahoma ranked 3rd best in the nation for longest life expectancy for white women, and Utah ranked 6th.
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Here are some of the most current rankings. Compilation of Data may lag a decade or more from compiling the data. The sources are the US Census, United Health Foundation America’s Health rankings., MADD, FBI, NHTSA, USA Today, Time, USNews, McKinsey & Company, Sutherland Institute and the American Conservative Union Foundation. Fodor, CNBC. Wall Street 24/7. Pollina Corporate Real Estate.
For the years from 2005 to 2018, Utah ranked, at least once among the states, as first or best, for longest life expectancy, low infant mortality. low Adult smoking, low youth smoking, low senior smoking, low diabetes, low cancer deaths from all causes, fewest high blood pressure, low chronic alcohol drinking, best behaviors (combined ranks of low drug deaths, excessive adult alcoholic drinking, High school graduation, obesity, inactivity, smoking) fewest children in poverty, best overall health, low hospital deaths of seniors, low hospital readmissions for seniors, fewest hospital readmissions, low drunken driving incidents (including DUI fatalities), low gambling addiction, most charitable donations, best tourist destination, highest volunteerism, highest family prosperity, youngest population, highest birth rate, best government credit rating, best government digitalization, best job growth, best employment, high Gini index, low prison overpopulation, and business (combined categories of workforce, cost of doing business, economy, infrastructure, quality of life, technology, innovation, business friendliness, cost of living, education and access to capital).
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