The 2016 Health of Women and Children Report by the United Health Foundation found that when it comes to the health of women and children, Wisconsin ranks at number 15 out of 50. That’s a "middle-of-the-road" ranking according to Dr. Ana Fuentevilla, chief medical officer at Unitedhealthcare Community & State.
Wisconsin is well behind neighboring Minnesota and Iowa, which are ranked at numbers five and eight respectively, but ahead of surrounding states like Illinois and Michigan, which are ranked at 21 and 32. The report based the rankings on 60 different measures of women’s, infants' and children’s health "to provide a holistic view of how each state stacks up against others."
Fuentevilla said that one of the main areas of concern in women’s health was related to alcohol.
"One of the key findings that the study showed us was the high prevalence of excessive drinking for women," she said. "And worse yet is a high prevalence of alcohol during pregnancy."
[For more of this story, written by Haleema Shah, go to http://www.wpr.org/wisconsin-c...consin-womens-health]
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