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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).
NACo President Linda Langston on Collaboration as Key to Solving Health Challenges
Recently, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) staff had the opportunity to discuss health and the CHR&R program with newly elected National Association of Counties (NACo) president Linda Langston, Supervisor of Linn County, Iowa. Langston sees her role, in part, as an opportunity to educate people about the Rankings and their practical application for...
NACo Selects Six Counties for Community Dialogues to Improve County Health
This week, the National Association of Counties (NACo) announced the six counties selected to participate in NACo Community Dialogue to Improve County Health sessions. In collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, NACo will facilitate one-day dialogues in these communities. The six sessions will be held in participants...