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People in Naples feel great.
Confirmation comes by way of a survey from Gallup Healthways, which announced the Naples area has the highest rate of well-being out of 190 U.S. communities it surveyed.
Gallup polled 353,000 adults nationwide, questioned participants in five areas:
Purpose: Liking what you do each day and being motivated to achieve your goals;
Social: Having supportive relationships and love in your life;
Financial: Managing your economic life to reduce stress and increase security;
Community: Liking where you live, feeling safe and having pride in your community;
Physical: Having good health and enough energy to get things done.
The Sarasota area has happy people, too. That region came in third behind Naples and Salinas, Calif., among the top 15 areas in the country ranked by overall well-being.
Naples health care executives such as Allen Weiss, president and CEO of NCH Healthcare System, were quick to seize on the results.
“Among our greatest strengths, cited by the survey, are lack of daily stress, liking what we do every day, lack of smokeless tobacco, learning or doing something interesting daily, low lifetime depression diagnosis, daily healthy eating, feeling good about our appearance, being recognized for volunteerism, feeling safe and secure, physical health being nearly perfect, making time for trips with family, obesity at a rate of 22% and smoking at a rate of 14.3% (both of these rates are still too high but much better than the nation as a whole),” Weiss writes in a letter he publishes weekly.
But there's still work to do, Weiss says. “On the minus side, our worst weaknesses included lifetime cancer prevalence, lack of health insurance (Florida remains among 20 states which have not yet taken federal Medicaid), high cholesterol, alcohol consumption, heart attack risk, health care insecurity and access to dentistry.”
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