Annual Health Rankings for Wisconsin's Counties Are Out
Thursday, March 21st, 2019 -- 8:02 AM
(WRN) -The annual health rankings for Wisconsin's 72 counties are out.The annual report by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation looks at more than 30 factors that influence health outcomes. Those include poverty, education, transportation and jobs. This year there was an emphasis on affordable housing - with researchers finding 13 percent of Wisconsin residents have what's termed a severe housing cost burden.
That means people are paying more than half their income on rent or their home mortgage. Menominee County continues to be at the bottom of the county health rankings and Ozaukee County at the top.
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