ADVANCE for Nurses: Public Health Nurses Promote Wellbeing

When researchers at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute teamed up with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to identify the healthiest counties across the U.S., some striking trends emerged. Urban/suburban counties tend to be healthier than rural ones and have better access to healthy foods. People in the least healthy counties acknowledged their poor health status in self reports, are more likely to smoke and have more frequent hospital admissions. Children in the least healthy counties live in poverty and face the specter of premature death.