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Communities Taking Action with County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
A CHR&R blog series highlighting how communities are engaging in efforts to foster opportunities for better health.
Community Coaching Available to You!
Are you interested in improving the health of your community and/or are you working with others to build a culture of health? Would your team appreciate guidance and support from a Roadmaps to Health community coach? Contact us at [email protected] by January 15, 2015 to let us know you want to learn more about the Community Coaching Program.
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Community Spotlights: See Examples of Strategies in Action
If you’ve used the What Works For Health feature of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps website, you know that you can easily search for, select, and implement evidence-informed strategies that can improve health in your community. For the 2014 County Health Rankings release, we’ve added Community...
Congratulations to First RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize Winners
We’re proud to announce the first RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize winners!
The winning communities are Santa Cruz County, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Fall River, Massachusetts;...
Connecting the gender pay gap to everyone's health
Hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver investigate the gender pay gap and answer important questions about how we got here and how it affects our health. On average, women in this country make little more than 80 cents for every dollar white men make. The pay gap is much wider for women of color. We kick off the series with our colleague, Dr. Elizabeth Blomberg, who explains the data behind the gender pay gap. We’re also joined by Dr. Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, who sets the stage on the history of women’s wages and how we can close the gap.
County Health Calculator Explores Impact of Education, Income on Health
The 2012 County Health Rankings explain “what we know” about county health, and with the addition of Roadmaps, “what we can do” to improve it. Alongside the 2012 CHR&R launch on April 3, a new County Health Calculator app explores “what could happen” to a community’s health if it took action to improve education and income.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps at APHA
Join us from October 27-31 at the American Public Health Association Conference in San Francisco, CA for their 140th Annual Meeting and Exposition.
Stop by our booth (#2730 in the Moscone Center) to meet our staff, learn more about the Rankings & Roadmaps, and share your local health improvement story. You can also learn more about the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps by attending any of the following presentations:
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps at "Health Datapalooza" 2012
Bridget Booske Catlin, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps director, and Patrick Remington, County Health Rankings co-director, demonstrated the Rankings' interactive website Tuesday morning during a panel showcasing community health data apps at the sold-out 2012 Health Data Initiative Forum.
County Health Rankings 101 Webinar
Heard of the County Health Rankings but want more information on how to use them in your community? If yes, then the County Health Rankings 101 Webinar is for you. Please join us on October 24, 2011, at 2:00 pm CDT (3:00 pm EDT).
On the County Health Rankings 101 webinar we will discuss: