What's behind the rankings
Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 16:42
in Health & Medicine
Burlington, Vt., was billed in a blizzard of reports this month as the nation's healthiest city -- and Huntingon, W.Va., as least healthy -- based on survey results compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . It's one of many such "healthy city" rankings periodically splashed across the news.
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