Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Health Care

Ohio ranks 40th out of 50 in health metric. Smoking in itself is not a health metric.
"In the past year, drug deaths increased by 25 percent from 14 to 17.5 deaths per 100,000 population, reflecting the ongoing prescription drug and heroin epidemic that has hit Ohio especially hard. And Ohio now ranks 46th out of 50 states for infant mortality, with an average of 7.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, down from 9.9 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013.
Part of the problem is that although Ohio ranks high in terms of total health spending, the number of state and federal federal dollars dedicated to public health is about half the national average at $45 million, according to the report."
That tiny number isn't the problem.

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