Summit County, Colorado: Difference between revisions

According to a report in the [[Journal of the American Medical Association]], residents of Summit County had a 2014 life expectancy from birth of 86.83 years in 2014, the longest in the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dwyer-Lindgren|first=Laura|date=8 May 2017|title=Inequalities in Life Expectancy Among US Counties, 1980 to 2014|url= |journal=JAMA Internal Medicine|doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0918|pmc=5543324|pmid=28492829|volume=177|issue=7|pages=1003–1011}}</ref> Both men and women live longer in Summit County than in any other county in the United States: 85.5 years for men and 88.0 years for women is the life expectancy at birth.<ref>"County Profile: Summit County Colorado," http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Summit_County_Colorado.pdf, accessed 2 Aug 2017</ref> Two contiguous counties, [[Pitkin County|Pitkin]] and [[Eagle County, Colorado|Eagle]] counties, rank numbers two and three in the nation in life expectancy. Factors contributing to the high life expectancy in Summit County are "high education, high income, high access to medical care, the people are physically active, obesity is lower than anywhere else — so you’re doing it right,” said Dr. Ali Mokdad, one of the study's co-authors.<ref>Achenbach, Joel, "U.S. life expectancy varies more than 20 years from county to county," ''Washington Post'', May 8, 2017</ref>