New York – Sullivan County ranks at or near the bottom in New York in a variety of health measures identified in a county-by-county ranking released Wednesday.
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In a comparison of premature deaths, Sullivan came in last among New York’s 62 counties, even lower than the Bronx. It did not fare much better in other categories: it ranked 50th for unhealthy behavior such as smoking and binge drinking and 56th in terms of access to medical care and the quality of that care.
Orange and Ulster counties generally had middling scores, although in two areas of concern, Orange ranked 50th in clinical care and Ulster came in 44th in unhealthy behavior.
The report, one of 50 created by the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, allows health officials in each state to compare health measures among neighboring counties.
So let’s take our camps out of Sullivan county and bring them to brooklyn !
These scores are no doubt increased due to to July and August months.
this should not be a surrise.
the fresh air was out in the rockaways by the beaches.
they gave up almost all of the beachfront property in the 70s to build housing projects.
thats where our bungalows should have been. the men could ahve come back and forth daily instead of only on weekends
I’m old enough to remember how some of our generation’s great Rebbes instructed their followers to send their children to camps or bungalow colonies because they needed it for their “health.” LOL