Health & Wellness
Healthy communities create a healthy economy and self-reliant families. When we invest in preventative measures as a cost-effective way to improve health, everyone takes an active role managing their own health and people have their basic healthcare needs met, including access to a variety of healthcare facilities and services.
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When quality medical care is hard to find and needed coverage is still unaffordable, it impacts health outcomes and overall individual, family and community health and economics.
According to America's Health Rankings, Nevada continues to rank near last on per capita state dollars dedicated to public health and federal dollars directed to states per person by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and the Health Resources & Services Administration (2-year estimates).
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Legend Colors
Red is bad, green is good, blue is not statistically different/neutral.
Compared to Distribution
the value is in the best half of communities.
the value is in the 2nd worst quarter of communities.
the value is in the worst quarter of communities.
Compared to Target
meets target; does not meet target.
Compared to a Single Value
lower than the comparison value; higher than the comparison value; not statistically different from comparison value.
Trend
non-significant change over time; significant change over time; no change over time.
Compared to Prior Value
higher than the previous measurement period; lower than the previous measurement period; no statistically different change from previous measurement period.