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Health Outcomes - Children in United States
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Health Outcomes - Children by State
Rank based on: Sum of weighted z-scores of health outcomes measures for children
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Health Outcomes - Children
- America's Health Rankings composite measure, 2024
About Health Outcomes - Children
Top State(s): Hawaii: 0.755
Bottom State(s): Mississippi: -0.989
Definition: Sum of weighted z-scores of health outcomes measures for children
Data Source and Years(s): America's Health Rankings composite measure, 2024
Suggested Citation: America's Health Rankings analysis of America's Health Rankings composite measure, United Health Foundation, AmericasHealthRankings.org, accessed 2025.
The Health Outcomes category directly measures the burden of disease and impacts on life expectancy and mental and physical health and well-being. Topics in this category are Behavioral Health, Physical Health and Mortality. Some of the measures in this category include anxiety, depression and asthma among children, neonatal abstinence syndrome and infant mortality.
Health Outcomes is one of five categories of measures used in the America’s Health Rankings model, which is built upon the World Health Organization’s definition of health: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The other four categories — Social and Economic Factors, Clinical Care, Behaviors and Physical Environment — influence and are influenced by Health Outcomes, reflecting the impact of social determinants of health.
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