Natrona County found to be one of Wyoming’s unhealthiest, says new report

(File Picture; Trevor T. Trujillo, Oil Metropolis Information)

CASPER, Wyo. — Up to date analysis from an annual report that paperwork the well being and high quality of life for almost each county within the U.S. discovered Natrona County to be considered one of Wyoming’s unhealthiest in each of its measuring mechanisms.

The Inhabitants Well being Institute on the College of Wisconsin launched findings from its 2022 County Well being Rankings report Wednesday morning — a examine that paperwork “well being outcomes” and “well being components” for counties throughout the nation — and located that Natrona County ranked within the backside half among the many remainder of the state in every class.

The institute decides power in well being components primarily based on 4 weighted identifiers: well being behaviors (reminiscent of weight loss program, train, and alcohol and drug use), high quality and entry to scientific care, social and financial components (reminiscent of schooling, earnings and employment), and bodily surroundings (reminiscent of housing and air and water high quality). On the subject of these identifiers, Natrona County was listed to be nineteenth out of the 23 Wyoming counties.

The opposite a part of the findings — well being outcomes — didn’t convey a lot better information for the county.

There, the world ranked seventeenth amongst Wyoming counties primarily based on life expectancy and high quality of life, measured by researchers by way of “self-reported well being standing[es]” and the county’s share of low-birthweight newborns. Additional explanations of measures and the info can be found in Natrona County’s total report on the County Well being Rankings web site.

Teton County was ranked as Wyoming’s finest in each classes, whereas Fremont County was ranked because the worst in each. Detailed knowledge that compares Wyoming towards the remainder of the U.S. could be discovered within the institute’s full report for the state.

Regardless of the low rankings, there have been some constructive well being developments recorded in Natrona County which might be price celebrating.

The speed of Natrona County kids dwelling in poverty was recorded at 10% for 2020, the county’s lowest quantity because the County Well being Rankings started recording knowledge on the topic in 2002. Moreover, Natrona County’s ratios of main care physicians and dentists to the inhabitants additionally stay near the nationwide common.