Marin ranked healthiest county in state for sixth year; but economic inequality a pitfall
By Richard Halstead
In the novel “Lost Horizon,” the charmed denizens of Shangri-La live years longer than the normal lifespan, and in real world Marin County, most residents are similarly robust, according to new health rankings released Wednesday.
Most, but not all.
For the sixth year running, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute have ranked Marin as the healthiest county in California. This year, however, the rankings included a new measure that Marin did not perform so well on: income inequality. Marin ranked 54th out of 57 responding counties in income inequality.
Julie Willems Van Dijk, co-director of the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Program, said this is the first time economic inequality has been included in the rankings since 2010, the year the rankings began.
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