Tucson Weekly: A Tucson Checkup - New data shows that the health of Pima County residents is decidedly mixed

For the past year, residents of Pima County—like all Americans—have been inundated with talk about our health-care system, its flaws, proposed reforms and its philosophical underpinnings. However, much less has been said about how healthy we are as a community. The absence of such conversations does not involve a lack of information. There are plenty of up-to-date statistics out there, including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report released in February that provides data for counties across the nation.