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How Communities Are Creating a Culture of Health and Advancing Equity
Since 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize has honored and elevated U.S. communities working at the forefront of advancing health, opportunity, and equity for all. Representing diverse places—from Allen County, Kansas to...
How community development organizations improve well-being in under-invested communities
By Sarah Norman and Alina Schnake-Mahl, NeighborWorks America
The great majority of America’s high-performing community development organizations (CDOs) are actively tackling health challenges in their communities. In a peer-reviewed paper published by the...
How Do You Ensure Everyone in Your Community is Counted in the 2020 Census?
Starting next month, homes across the country will start receiving invitations to complete the 2020 census and it’s vital that everyone is counted.
How Healthy is Your Air?
Did you know more than 40 percent of people throughout the country live where pollution often makes the air too dangerous to breathe? Or that more than 44 million Americans live in an area burdened year-round by unhealthy levels of...
How Healthy is Your County? 2013 Rankings Released March 20
Are you ready? The 2013 County Health Rankings will be released on March 20, 2013. Now for the fourth year in a row, counties can see a snapshot of how healthy their residents are by comparing their overall health and the factors that influence their health with other counties in their state. This allows communities to see county-by-county where they are doing well...
How Lasting Change Happens: From Food Pantries to Policies
Creating enduring change has proven a challenge for countless communities nationwide. Children’s First Executive Director Allison Jordan from 2014 RWJF Culture of Health Prize community, Buncombe County, NC, joined County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program staff to share how an emphasis on advocacy brought desired change to her community.
Buncombe County...
How Washington County Residents Stay Healthy
Washington County is one of the healthiest places to live in the state of Wisconsin and County Health Director Linda Walter wants to keep it that way.
In 2008, the county ranked as one of the top 10 healthiest counties in a check-up done by the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute (UWPHI). In a similar report released on February 17, 2010, the county was cited again as one of the healthiest of 72 counties in the state.
Identifying Community Solutions in Clare and Sonoma Counties
How counties determine priority areas and develop strategies to improve health was the topic of a panel discussion at the 2013 NACO Roadmaps to Health Forum. Peter Rumble, Deputy County Administrator of Sonoma County, California, and Mary Kushion, Former Health Officer for the Central Michigan District Health Department in Clare County, Michigan, offered insights on how stakeholders were...
Identifying health patterns through maps
Where we live matters to our health, and we can use maps to identify geographic patterns in how long and how well we live.
Improving health through community organizing
Strategies combining community organizing and public health can work to improve health for everyone.