Identifying county characteristics associated with resident well-being: A population based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Well-being is a positively-framed, holistic assessment of health and quality of life that is associated with longevity and better health outcomes. We aimed to identify county attributes that are independently associated with a comprehensive, multi-dimensional assessment of individual well-being.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional study examining associations between 77 pre-specified county attributes and a multi-dimensional assessment of individual US residents' well-being, captured by the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index. Our cohort included 338,846 survey participants, randomly sampled from 3,118 US counties or county equivalents.

Findings

We identified twelve county-level factors that were independently associated with individual well-being scores.

SUBMITTER: Roy B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5965855 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature