Baltimore ranks last in Maryland for health, but analysts see promise

Baltimore City ranked last — again — among healthiest counties in Maryland, but industry analysts see promise for improved health here. Baltimore showed improvement in premature death, alcohol-impaired death, and air pollution in the 2016 County Health Rankings, released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Analysts noted the city’s concentration of primary care doctors and mental health specialists, compared to the rest…

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