The County Health Rankings provide a snapshot of a community’s health and a starting point for investigating and discussing ways to improve health. This guide will help you find and understand the data - in this site and beyond - as you begin to assess your needs and resources, and focus on what's important. The guide includes three sections.

• Explore Your Snapshot provides tools to help explore your snapshot and understand what is happening in your community.
• Go Beyond the Snapshot offers additional resources to understand, visualize, and share data that go beyond the snapshot.
• Communities Using the Rankings Data introduces the many ways communities are using the Rankings.