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10 States with The Lowest Number of Physicians per Capita

Published on April 23, 2017 at 8:59 am by Vuk Zdinjak in Lists

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7. Alabama

206 active physicians per capita

Student enrollment per capita of 28.9, and number of fellows and residents in ACGME programs per capita of 27.8 are not ideal but Alabama’s got real problems. Being the state with the second highest obesity rate of 35.6 percent, and add to that hypertension rate of whopping 40.4 percent, the third highest diabetes rate of 13.5 percent, physical inactivity rate of 31.9 percent and you’ve got a bleak picture of that state’s health. Life expectancy at birth of 75.4 years seems somewhat optimistic.

10 States with The Lowest Number of Physicians per Capita

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