Pinal County ranks last in doctor ratios, work commutes
by Kevin Reagan | Casa Grande Dispatch
A map shows how Arizona’s counties rank in the number of primary care doctors it has per capita. The counties with darker shades indicate fewer doctors per capita. Pinal County ranked last in the state by having one doctor for every 6,440 residents. Coconino County had a ratio of 1 to 1,200./University of Wisconsin
Data released this week shows Pinal County has the worst ratio in Arizona for primary care doctors per capita.
The University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute recently released its annual rankings of the healthiest counties in Arizona. Based on a number of health factors, Pinal County ranked seventh — a few spots down from the fourth ranking it held in 2017.
Higher rates of adult obesity, air pollution and sexually transmitted diseases were a couple factors observed in Pinal County, which the Health Institute calculated through more than 50 sources of public data.
