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The Mercer Human Resource specialists have examined the ecological situation in 215 cities of the world. According to the results of the research, the health care and sanitary situation seems to be the best in the cities of North America.
The rating has been compiled with consideration of different factors, like the accessibility of medical institutions, air pollution level, presence of infections. Also the quality of the sewerage systems, water accessibility, absence of dangerous animals and insects have been taken into consideration.
New York has been considered as the "starting point" with the rating of 100 points. The city with the highest ecology, healthcare and hygiene levels, is Calgary in Canada that has gathered 131,7 points. The second place went to Honolulu. The third place took Helsinki. The top ten consists of Ottawa (127,2), Minneapolis (125,7), Oslo, Stockholm and Zuruch that have gathered 125 point, and the Japanese Katsuyama (123,8). The tenth place have taken Bern, Boston, Geneva, Lexington, Montreal, Nurnberg, Pittsburg and Vancouver.
The city with the worst sanitary and health care level is the capital of Azerbaijan - Baku (27,6 points). |
