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Making the most out of community data: County Health Rankings Research Projects

How can County Health Rankings data be applied to community health or influencing policy? In January of 2015 we released a call for research applications to look into that question, and we selected five proposals. With that work concluding, here are some of...

March 30 Teleconference and Twitter Q&A: How Healthy is Your County?

TELECONFERENCE: HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR COUNTY?
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Wisconsin to Release 2011 County Health Rankings

March 30, 2011
10:00-11:00am EDT 

NOTE: Teleconference registration is now closed. A recording of the teleconference will be available starting at 11:00 a.m. ET on March 30, 2011 at 800-283-8486.  

Marin Independent Journal: Dr. Dustin Ballard: No. 1 in Health, but Marin Could Do Better

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.