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Massachusetts’ Rise to the Top: How This Year’s Healthiest State is Building a Culture of Health at the Community Level
In the recently released America’s Health Rankings, Massachusetts was the healthiest state in the country, moving from second in 2016 to first in 2017. For almost 30 years, the America’s Health Rankings Annual Report has served as the longest running annual assessment of the nation’s health on a...
Mayors Johnson and Reardon in Roll Call: "Health Investment for Cities, Nation is Smart"
In Roll Call today, Mayors Johnson (Hernando, Mississippi) and Reardon (Wyandotte, Kansas) called for more investment in local public health and prevention throughout the country. They both used the County Health Rankings to find where their local health investments will see the highest rate of return.
Measuring Community Health: Essays Exploring Selection and Use of Metrics in Efforts to Improve Health Featured in CDC Journal
The July 2010 edition of Preventing Chronic Disease features a set of essays and commentaries on selecting the best tools, or metrics, for measuring and monitoring the health of communities. The essays and commentaries were commissioned by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of their Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) initiative. A key component of MATCH is the County Health Rankings, the first set of reports to rank the overall health of nearly every county in all 50 states.
Measuring the burden of child care costs
On average a family spends 25% of household income on child care. This high cost ultimately impacts the health of these families and their communities. Learn more about the Child Care Cost Burden measure and strategies to increase access to affordable child care.
Meet the County Health Rankings Model: New Video Resource
The County Health Rankings model shows us more than 30 measures that affect how healthy residents are today and what will impact their health in the future.
Meet the Projects Selected to Make our Rankings Even Better!
Earlier this year we solicited innovative research proposals for County Health Rankings Research Grants. These grants serve an important role in strengthening our Rankings methods and increasing their strategic use and impacts. Now we’re excited to share the projects selected for funding through this competitive process:
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Missouri Communities Move to Action to Improve Health
Working together is at the heart of making meaningful change in a community. Building Communities for Better Health (BCBH)—a three-year grant-funded program sponsored through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services—kicked off in 2018 with the goal of empowering communities to implement key policy, systems, and environmental change approaches. The program focuses on reducing risk...
Motivating Communities to Improve the Health of Their Populations
Could Incentives Prompt Communities to Implement Policies Shown to Improve Health?
The September 2010 edition of Preventing Chronic Disease—a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—features a set of essays and articles examining different ways to encourage communities to adopt policies that have been shown to improve health.
Moving Data to Action and the NAACHO Annual Conference
On July 10, 2013, hundreds of local public health officials convened in Dallas for the 2013 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference. Themed, “Public Health by the Numbers. Our Story. Our Time. Our Future,” this year the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program was well represented. Many attendees and presenters at the...
NACo President Lenny Eliason on 2012 Rankings and Importance of County Leadership
National Association of Counties (NACo) President Lenny Eliason comments on the release of the 2012 County Health Rankings and the opportunity for county officials to drive efforts to create healthier places for residents to live, learn, work and play. His comments are printed in full below (from the NACo blog).