NewsUpdated: Mar. 31, 2025, 9:58 a.m.|Published: Mar. 31, 2025, 9:47 a.m.By Julie Washington, cleveland.comCLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County has a higher percentage of low birth weight babies than the state average, but is on par with state averages for the number of people without health insurance. That’s according to the recently released County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that measures conditions that influence health and wellness across the country.The data include county health snapshots and a national map showing regional patterns and comparisons. The data showed that in Ashtabula County, 9% of people under the age of 65 did not have health insurance, which is above the state’s average of 7%.People in Geauga, Medina and Portage had fewer days of poor mental health per month than the state average, the County Health Rankings showed. Here is county health data showing how Ohio, as well as Cuyahoga and surrounding...
