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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.
Rankings Launch Day 2013: Join a Teleconference and Twitter Q&A
Are you excited for this week’s 2013 County Health Rankings release? So are we! Join us for a teleconference and Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, March 20 to celebrate our fourth annual County Health Rankings.
TELECONFERENCE
Among the topics to be discussed: How counties measure up within...
Rankings release can be a wake-up call for counties
Next month our 2016 Rankings will be released, giving counties across the country updated pictures of their community health. What do communities do with this news? Some, such as Laramie County, Wyoming, and...
Rankings Research Grants-Q&A Now Available
A summary of the teleconference discussing the County Health Rankings Call for Proposals for Research Grants is now available along with an audio recording.
Brief proposals are due Monday, November 19, 2012.
Reaching Across the Community to Improve Health: The United Way Example
In many places across the U.S., the United Way Worldwide – one of the national partners working with the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps – is focusing on community impact. Using its mission of improving lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good, United Ways are leveraging their connections, partnerships, and...