Premature Death, General Mental Health, Adult Smoking, and Adult Obesity

Key population health variables from the County Health Rankings. Includes results on
premature death, general mental health, adult smoking, and adult obesity. More information on the County Health Rankings
available at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Key population health variables from the County Health Rankings. Includes results on
premature death, general mental health, adult smoking, and adult obesity. More information on the County Health Rankings
available at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Key population health variables from the County Health Rankings. Includes results on
premature death, general mental health, adult smoking, and adult obesity. More information on the County Health Rankings
available at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Key population health variables from the County Health Rankings. Includes results on
premature death, general mental health, adult smoking, and adult obesity. More information on the County Health Rankings
available at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Key population health variables from the County Health Rankings. Includes results on
premature death, general mental health, adult smoking, and adult obesity. More information on the County Health Rankings
available at: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

Percent of adults age 18 or older who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and are current smokers

Percentage of total population within a designated area that is identified as both “low income”
and having “low access” to healthy food. Low income is defined as Low income is defined as having an annual family income
at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty threshold. Low access is defined as population that is beyond 1 mile for urban areas or 10 miles for rural areas from a supermarket.

Note that there are many ways to measure food access for individuals and for neighborhoods,
and many ways to define which areas are food deserts (neighborhoods that lack healthy food sources).
Explore the USDA Food Access Research Atlas for more information: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/.

Average number of days a county’s adult respondents report that their mental health was not good in past 30 days (age-adjusted - Adjusting for age removes the effect of age as a risk factor on poor mental health days since aging is not preventable)

Premature death measures the risk of dying before age 75, uses Years of Potential Life Lost as its measure of Premature Death, per 100,000.