Community Stories Health improvement efforts from around the country 6 Stories Filtered by Education, Quality of Care, Government, and Nonprofits In Utah, United Way Makes Strong Link Between Education and Health February 10, 2015 Education is a key component to health – we know that better educated individuals live longer, healthier lives than those with less education, and... Read more Changing the Trajectory of High-needs Families: United Way of Central Ohio February 5, 2015 The County Health Rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that, if improved, can help make communities... Read more Mason County, WA: Building a Roadmap to Better Health by Investing in Education March 17, 2013 In Mason County, WA—which ranked 35 out of 39 counties in the state in the 2012 County Health Rankings—a diverse group of partners has... Read more Never Giving Up: Addressing Drug Addiction in Scott County, Indiana September 4, 2012 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... Read more Rockingham County, North Carolina Establishes Task Force to Identify the Root Causes of Its Poor Health Rankings, Develops Recommendations July 11, 2011 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... Read more How a Low Ranking on Health Mobilized Wyandotte County, Kansas March 21, 2011 Wyandotte County, Kansas has made significant strides toward achieving public health since it finished in the bottom of the 2010 Kansas County Health Rankings. Read more
In Utah, United Way Makes Strong Link Between Education and Health February 10, 2015 Education is a key component to health – we know that better educated individuals live longer, healthier lives than those with less education, and... Read more
Changing the Trajectory of High-needs Families: United Way of Central Ohio February 5, 2015 The County Health Rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that, if improved, can help make communities... Read more
Mason County, WA: Building a Roadmap to Better Health by Investing in Education March 17, 2013 In Mason County, WA—which ranked 35 out of 39 counties in the state in the 2012 County Health Rankings—a diverse group of partners has... Read more
Never Giving Up: Addressing Drug Addiction in Scott County, Indiana September 4, 2012 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... Read more
Rockingham County, North Carolina Establishes Task Force to Identify the Root Causes of Its Poor Health Rankings, Develops Recommendations July 11, 2011 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... Read more
How a Low Ranking on Health Mobilized Wyandotte County, Kansas March 21, 2011 Wyandotte County, Kansas has made significant strides toward achieving public health since it finished in the bottom of the 2010 Kansas County Health Rankings. Read more
