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Premature Age-Adjusted Mortality*
Number of deaths among residents under age 75 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted).Premature Death
Years of potential life lost before age 75 per 100,000 population (age-adjusted).Press Release: Annual Health Check-Up Highlights Healthiest and Least Healthy Counties in Every State
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 12:01 A.M. ET
For More Information, Contact:
Becky Wexler and Ariel Surowidojojo
301-652-1558
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Annual Health Check-Up Highlights Healthiest and Least Healthy Counties In Every State
Press Release: How Healthy is Your County? New County Health Rankings Give First County-By-County Snapshot of Health in Each State
University of Wisconsin/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Project
Ranks Counties on How Healthy People Are and How Long They Live
For More Information, Contact:
Kay Campbell or Becky Wexler at 301-652-1558
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
12:01 a.m. EST
Preventable Hospital Stays
Rate of hospital stays for ambulatory-care sensitive conditions per 100,000 Medicare enrollees.Primary Care Physicians
Ratio of population to primary care physicians.Public-Private Partnerships: A Commitment to Improve Health
Public-private partnerships play a critical role in mobilizing community health through building, enhancing, and sustaining county policies and programs. During a panel discussion at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Roadmaps to Health Forum held in Madison, Wisconsin, participants were able to examine that role with panelists...
Quality of life
Quality of life underscores the importance of physical, mental, social and emotional health throughout the life course. Quality of life reflects internal conditions, such as perceived health, life satisfaction and self-esteem. Quality of life also includes external aspects that enable people to live well, such as environmental and housing quality and community safety. Quality of life data tell us how people assess their overall well-being. Self-assessed health correlates with actual health outcomes. Health-related quality of life focuses on how a person’s health impacts their ability to live a full life.Rankings in Action Webinar: Fit City Challenge in Smith County, Texas
A partnership between the Northeast Texas Public Health District and a local newspaper has grown into a community-wide movement to tackle one of the nation’s greatest health challenges—obesity.
The Tyler Morning Telegraph plays a key role in promoting the Fit City Challenge, a local initiative to foster healthy, active living in Tyler and the rest of East Texas.