Humboldt, the 45th Most Healthy County in the State
by
Ryan Burns
on
March 30, 2011 at 5:23PM
It's counterintuitive, what with our clean ocean air, our outdoorsy fervor and our preponderance of brewer's yeast-eaters, but Humboldt County residents' health ranks in the bottom quarter of the state, according to the second annual County Health Rankings, released today by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. There's a wealth of fascinating data to be found on the project's website, like the fact that our resident-to-primary-care-physician ratio is 800 to one (which is actually better than the state average).