Park County in Top Third of State for Health

A new study ranks Park County in the top third of the state when it comes to the health of its residents.

A new study produced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the University of Wisconsin Poplar Health Institute, and the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps researched data from all of Wyoming’s 23 counties. Data categories included health behaviors; education, employment, and income; and physical environmental factors; as well as life expectancy and quality of life.

For the report, counties were ranked in two overall categories – health factors, which are the circumstances that exist in the county that may lead to good or poor health; and health outcomes, which is how healthy the residents actually are.

Teton County came on top overall, in both categories; Fremont County came in last. Park County was 3rd in health factors but ranked 7^th in the actual health of its residents.

Big Horn County was ranked 22nd in health factors, but 15^th in how healthy its residents actually are; Washakie County ranked 8^th in health outcomes and 10^th in health factors. And Hot Springs County came in at the 21^st spot when it comes to the health of its residents.

Additionally, Wyoming as a state ranked “unhealthier” than the nationwide average in many categories.