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Health expectations and outcomes can vary greatly across our vast state, as this county-by-county map demonstrates. Shading represents primary care physicians per capita (Coconino is the highest, with one doctor per 1,200 residents; Pinal is the lowest, with one per 6,440) alongside average overall life expectancy (below). Yuma 80.9 years Santa Cruz 79.5 years Maricopa 79.2 years Pinal 79 years Pima 78.8 years Yavapai 78.7 years Cochise 78.5 years Coconino 78.3 years La Paz 77.5 ...

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When Jon Ford travels the state talking to groups about wellness, he asks people the first word that comes to mind when he says “health.” “Every single time it’s doctors, medicine, hospitals,” says Ford, director of strategic initiatives at Vitalyst Health Foundation, a statewide advocacy organization. After that, “it’s always ‘Well, I should lose weight and exercise more.’ This is the default frame that we have in America, that health is either ‘health care,’ or...