Vermont

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Vermont

Overall rank: 1
2008 rank: 4
Prevalence of smoking*: 12**
Prevalence of obesity: 37
Lack of health insurance: 9
Primary care physicians: 5***

Strengths:
Low percentage of children in poverty
Low prevalence of obesity
High rate of high school graduation
High per-capita public health funding

Challenges:
High prevalence of binge drinking
Moderate immunization coverage

*America's Health Rankings analyzed 22 different health measures to arrive at its ranking. In addition to the four cited in the caption above, the measures include the following: prevalence of binge drinking, high school graduation, violent crime, occupational fatalities, infectious disease, children in poverty, air pollution, public health funding, immunization coverage, prenatal care, infant mortality, preventable hospitalizations, poor mental health days, poor physical health days, geographic disparity, cardiovascular deaths, cancer deaths and premature deaths.
**High score indicates low prevalence of smoking as a percentage of the population.
***Per 100,000 population.