How do people use the County Health Rankings—what are they doing?
- Raising awareness in the general community about the multiple factors that influence health via media interviews and follow-up conversations.
- Initiating community health assessment and planning efforts where none previously existed
- Celebrating successes and promoting existing community health improvement efforts
- Informing policy makers, particularly Local Boards of Health, about the many factors that affect a community's health and about community health improvement planning
- Revitalizing or refining existing community health assessment and improvement plans
- Citing the County Health Rankings as justification in securing grant funding to conduct community health improvement efforts and/or to address the determinants of health
- Providing feedback to the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to improve the Rankings methodology and report.
