How were the life stage ranks for health and health disparity calculated?
For health, mean state values were used to assign ranks. The average of the two outcomes ranks was used for working-age and older adults. Life stage health disparities ranks were based on the state disparity scores described above. Because the ranks were constructed in a slightly different manner for working-age and older adults than the grades were constructed, the ranks displayed below do not necessarily reflect a ranked order of the grades received by each state. The health and health disparity ranks for all 50 states for each life stage (infants, children and young adults, working-age adults, and older adults) are available.
