A report says McDowell County is again the unhealthiest county in West Virginia .
The report released Wednesday by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University
of Wisconsin researchers
ranks the southern coalfield county last among all 55 counties for the sixth
straight year.
The report uses health factors such as
smoking, drinking, adult obesity, premature deaths, and other areas including
education, access to health care and unemployment.
Other counties at the bottom of the
list, also in the southern part of the state, are Wyoming ,
Mingo, Logan
and Mercer.
The report ranks Pendleton County
as the healthiest. Jefferson is the
second-healthiest county - up three spots from last year - and Monongalia drops
one spot to third. Last year's leader, Pleasants County ,
slips to fourth and Upshur is fifth.