Editing Alfalfa County, Oklahoma (section)

==Life expectancy and health==
Of 3,142 counties in the United States in 2014, the [[Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation]] ranked Alfalfa County 840 in the average life expectancy at birth of male residents and 1,999 in the average life expectancy of female residents. Males in Alfalfa County lived an average of 77.2 years and females lived an average of 79.6 years compared to the national average for life expectancy of 76.7 for males and 81.5 for females. In 2014, Alfalfa Country was one of only two counties in Oklahoma (the other being [[Logan County, Oklahoma|Logan County]]) in which males had a longer life expectancy than the national average. However, women had a shorter life expectancy than the national average.<ref name="Alfalfa County">{{cite web |title=County Profiles: Alfalfa County, Oklahoma |url=http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Alfalfa_County_Oklahoma.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/county_profiles/US/2015/County_Report_Alfalfa_County_Oklahoma.pdf |archive-date=October 10, 2022 |url-status=live 
 |website=Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=December 27, 2020}}</ref> In the 1980-2014 period, the average life expectancy in Alfalfa County for females increased by 1.1 years while male longevity increased by 3.5 years compared to the national average for the same period of an increased life expectancy of 4.0 years for women and 6.7 years for men.<ref>{{cite web |title=US Health Map |url=https://vizhub.healthdata.org/subnational/usa |website=Institute of Health Metrics and Evaulation |publisher=University of Washington |access-date=December 28, 2020}}</ref>

In 2020, the [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]] ranked Alfalfa country as first among 77 counties in Oklahoma in "health outcomes," as measured by length and quality of life.<ref>{{cite web |title=2020 Oklahoma Report |url=https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/oklahoma/2020/rankings/alfalfa/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot
|website=Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |access-date=December 27, 2020}}</ref>