{"id":4341,"date":"2017-01-06T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2022-12-23T02:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T02:55:29","slug":"is-california-a-healthy-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.costulessdirect.com\/blog\/is-california-a-healthy-place-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Is California a Healthy Place to Live?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recently, the California Wellness Foundation<\/a>, aka Cal Wellness, commissioned the Field Research Corporation, a polling company, to interview nearly 2,200 Californians about topics such as health insurance<\/a>, crime, employment, and the environment in their community. Those communities included:<\/p>\n Out of the five, Central Valley respondents \u201cwere the most likely to say their communities felt polluted, unsafe and unhealthy,\u201d The New York Times<\/a> said. \u201cAsked to rate whether their community was a \u2018healthy place to live,\u2019 45 percent of the valley\u2019s residents chose \u2018fair,\u2019 \u2018poor\u2019 or \u2018very poor.\u2019 \u2026 The Central Valley was also the region most likely to take a fair or worse view of pollution \u2014 55 percent, compared to 42 percent statewide \u2014 and public safety \u2014 56 percent, compared to 46 percent statewide.\u201d<\/p>\n Consequently, only about half of Central Valley respondents believed they had clean drinking water. Environmentalists have raised concerns about fertilizers leaking into the valley\u2019s groundwater for years, the Times said.<\/p>\n\n
What Questions Did the Survey Ask?<\/h2>\n