Health care
BY GABBY BAILEY
Quality of life lower in Tarrant County than U.S.
such as perceived health and life satisfaction. Quality of life can be impacted by physical health conditions like low birth weight, or live newborns who weigh less than 5.5 pounds. It also measures a person’s poor physical health days and poor mental health days over a 30-day span.
& Roadmaps, a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, defines quality of life as a person’s self assessment of physical, mental, social and emotional health throughout their life. These parameters include conditions
Tarrant County ranked lower than the United States and relatively on par with the state of Texas in term of quality of life, while Denton County residents had an overall higher quality of life compared to national and state statistics. The data, which is from County Health Rankings
Poor physical and mental health days, 2022
Comparison of adults reporting fair or poor health, 2022
13%
Denton County Tarrant County
Average physical health days
Average mental health days
18% 18%
6
6
Texas
14%
United States
4
4
Percentage of low birth weight for live newborns, 2017-23
2
2
7%
Denton County Tarrant County
9%
0
0
8% 8%
Texas
United States
SOURCE: COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS & W/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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