2012 Rankings Receive Widespread Media Coverage

The April 3rd release of the 2012 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps resulted in widespread media coverage and a fantastic response from individuals and organizations across the United States.

The release of the Rankings generated more than 600 original news articles (and dozens more reprints) in nearly all 50 states and reached a broadcast audience of more than 35 million. Coverage ranged from print stories in The Economist, The New York Times, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times to hits on mainstream sites such as TIME Healthland, The Wall Street Journal’s Health blog, NPR’s Shots blog and Marketplace.

A record 175,00 unique visitors learned about their counties on the newly redesigned County Health Rankings & Roadmaps website in the first two days of the release. And since the 2012 launch, 333,000 people have explored the new site, visiting 2.3 million pages and sharing the site on Facebook and Twitter thousands of times.

The CHRR team is both humbled and excited by the tremendous response to the 2012 Rankings & Roadmaps. As always, we welcome your thoughts as we continue to build and refine this project. Bookmark the County-by-County Blog for updates on the project; stories of successful health improvement efforts, new funding opportunities, and guest commentaries. Together, we can improve the health of this nation, county-by-county.

- The CHRR Team.