Health Outcomes
#3
Ranking out of 62 counties SARATOGA
Quality of life
#15of life Length SCHENECTADY
(How people feel overall — physically, mentally)
Schenectady
(Premature death, before the age of 75)
#3
SARATOGA #27
#8 BEST!
Albany
#34
RENSSELAER
Saratoga
#62 BRONX
#10 #31 ALBANY
#1 #18NASSAU
SCHENECTADY
Rensselaer
RENSSELAER Albany
Rensselaer
Schenectady
#15
#18
#37
#30
#15
#62 BRON
SCHENECTADY
Saratoga
#10 ALBANY
#45
#7
#3
WORST
#1
EnvironmentalSCHENECTADY Factors Air pollution
11.2
#18
Schenectady
#10 ALBANY
(The average daily measure of fine particulate matter in micrograms per cubic meter)
11.1
10.9 Rensselaer
#1
RENSSELAER
Saratoga Albany
NASSAU
#62 Clinical Care BRONX
#10 ALBANY Drinking-water violations (Percent of the Albany population getting Schenectady 0% drinking water from public water systems with at Rensselaer least one healthBRONX 9% Saratoga based violation)
#62
#1
NASSAU
32%
Tobacco, Drug & Alcohol Use
Uninsured 9% Albany 8% Saratoga
WORST
SARATOGA
#15
NASSAU
BEST!
11% Schenectady
10% Rensselaer
Ratio of general population to doctors
Primary Care Physicians
Dentists
Mental Health Providers
1,069:1 - Albany
1,322:1 - Albany
444:1 - Albany
1,292:1 - Saratoga
1,365:1 - Schenectady
700:1 - Schenectady
1,348:1 - Schenectady
1,700:1 - Saratoga
887:1 - Saratoga
1,898:1 - Rensselaer
2,511:1 - Rensselaer
1,017:1 - Rensselaer
Adult smokers (Current smokers who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime)
16% Saratoga 17% Albany 18% Schenectady 19% Rensselaer
Excess drinking (The percent of adults that report either frequently drinking a lot at one time or frequently having more than one drink a day)
22% Rensselaer 20% Saratoga 19% Albany 15% Schenectady
Alcohol-impaired driving deaths (Percent of driving deaths where alcohol was a factor)
Schenectady
23%
Albany2
21%
Saratoga
19%
Reneselaer
21%
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