Tools & Resources
Mortality and Life Expectancy Calculator
This tool was developed by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps as a way to allow users to more actively engage with their own data. The goals of this tool are to give users an easy-to-use template for calculating the same mortality metrics we use on our website, and to give advanced users a template for how to complete the background calculations needed for life expectancy.
National Organizations with Local Connections
These groups may have deep connections in your community. Additionally, many of these networks will have resources that help you think about building your own network.
What Works for Health
This tool (from CHR&R) can to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally.
Choosing Your Strategy
This tool (from CHR&R) provides suggested actions based on What Works for Health evidence ratings.
Website and Newsletter Templates
This tool includes language to help you publicize the County Health Rankings on your websites and in your newsletters.
Frequently Asked Evaluation Questions
This tool (from CHR&R) many commonly asked questions about evaluation with brief responses to each.
Developing a Plan for Advocacy
This tool (from Community Tool Box) reviews the key steps in planning an advocacy campaign.
Choosing an Advocacy Campaign Goal
This tool (from M + R) provides specific questions and criteria for narrowing your focus and selecting an advocacy campaign goal. It can be found in Act on What's Important under Learning...
Healthy Community Design
This website (from NACCHO) includes tools to help public health practitioners learn about or further their work on the connection between public health and the built environment.