Community Stories

Fundraising can certainly be a challenge for community health improvement efforts, but in Tippecanoe County, IN, an interconnection of resources has proven to be...

Education is a key component to health – we know that better educated individuals live longer, healthier lives than those with less education, and...

The County Health Rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that, if improved, can help make communities...

As a result of the 2010 Public Health Summit, the Central Michigan District Health Department created the Together We Can Health Improvement Council, which...

What would you do if the county you’d lived in and loved for many decades was ranked the least healthy county in your state...

The 2011 County Health Rankings classified Desoto County as the healthiest county in Mississippi for health outcomes and the fifth-healthiest county for health factors...

West Virginia has one of the highest obesity rates in the country and McDowell County is no exception, where more than a third of...

Rockingham County, dubbed as North Carolina’s North Star, is nestled at the tip of the Northern Piedmont Triad region and cradled by the foothills...

When the Jackson Area Chamber of Commerce first decided to get involved with improving health and wellness in Madison County, Tennessee, officials weren’t sure...

When the 2010 County Health Rankings were released, Muskegon County’s Healthy on the Shore coalition was already in the planning stages. But the information...