How Healthy is Your State? Grading Public Health

As part of the recent ACEP EM report card, Public Health and Injury Prevention didn't quite make the grade, coming in with an overall score of C.

Everything from drunk driving and immunizations to smoking and injury prevention were taken into account when grading this category.

Public Health and Injury Prevention included the following sub-categories:

• Traffic safety and drunk driving
• Immunizations
• Fatal injuries
• State health and injury prevention efforts
• Health risk factors

Is your state doing everything it can to keep you safe and healthy?

Dr. Joshua Moskovitz weighs in on the matter and shares some tips for improving the health and safety of your state.

Additionally, you can see how your specific state graded at www.emreportcard.org, as well as learn how you can do more by talking to local and state legislation and letting Congress know that you demand better.