- Posted
- February 20, 2015
Ohio falls farther in annual well-being ranking
Ohio has slipped one spot closer to the bottom in Gallup’s latest national ranking of well-being (Source: “Ohio ranks 47th in well-being index,” Zanesville Times Recorder, Feb. 19, 2015).
Ohio is ranked 47th in the 2014 Gallup-Healthway Wellbeing Index, which was released Thursday. The ranking is based on over 176,000 phone interviews with people in all 50 states. The Index measures how people feel about and experience their daily lives, and looks at their health across five categories: purpose, social, financial, community and physical. Last year Ohio ranked 46th.
Alaskans nabbed the top spot, while West Virginia came in dead last for the sixth time in six years. Hawaii and South Dakota followed Alaska in spots two and three. And Kentucky stayed in the 49th spot, where it's been for a number of years.
Ohio also was ranked 47th in HPIO’s 2014 Health Value Dashboard, a first-of-its-kind state ranking that equally weighs health outcomes and healthcare costs.
