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Median Household Income*
The income where half of households in a county earn more and half of households earn less.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:
Considering health and social services spending (...
Mental health
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological and social well-being and includes the misuse of substances such as alcohol and drugs. It affects our ability to learn, work, respond to stress, navigate, interact with and participate in our communities. Mental health influences and is influenced by our physical health.Mental Health Providers
Ratio of population to mental health providers.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.
Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths*
Number of motor vehicle crash deaths per 100,000 population.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).