Ohioans are living less healthy lives and spending more on health care than people in most other states.
That is the unfortunate, albeit familiar, conclusion from the recently released Health Value Dashboard, which is produced every other year by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.
Since 2014, HPIO has gathered data on more than 100 metrics to compare Ohio to other states and D.C. on health value, a combination of health outcomes and health care spending. The dashboard also examines differences in outcomes between groups of Ohioans, such as by race, ethnicity, income, education and disability status.
In every edition of the dashboard, Ohio has been near the bottom. This year, Ohio ranks 47, with only Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky and West Virginia ranking lower.
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A ranking released Tuesday places health in Ohio near the bottom among all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.
Ohio ranked 47th in the country in the 2021 health value dashboard from the Columbus-based Health Policy Institute of Ohio (HPIO). The dashboard s rankings are based on a combination of public health and health care spending, according to the institute.
Ohio ranked 43rd for population health and 37th for health care spending in the latest edition of the dashboard. Ohio s low ranking was largely based on inequities, a lack of prevention due to a sparse public health workforce and childhood adversity and trauma, according to a press release.