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Executive Summary: Ten-Year Reflections on the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
As County Health Rankings & Roadmaps moved through the first 10 years, it adjusted and course-corrected to better engage the organizations, people and communities across the nation that interact with and utilize the tools and resources made available in the name of broadening the definition of health.
Experts Discuss Building Healthier, More Equitable Communities
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is dedicated to building a Culture of Health—a vision of the nation in which everyone has the opportunity to lead a healthy life, regardless of where they live. To transform communities so that better health is available for everyone, the engagement and commitment of all sectors is necessary.
Recently, RWJF hosted a Google+ Hangout to...
Explore a new national map of health
You can now view a national map of county Health Groups and see patterns of Community Conditions on Population Health and Well-being across the country.
Exploring the Data
Exploring the Data (from CHR&R) helps you get the most out of the Rankings and the wealth of underlying data. It is part of the Use the Data tool.
Farms Crop Up in the Bronx
The slice of land in the Bronx at first appears no different than many of the borough's derelict empty lots, where any glimpse of green often resolves into a tangle of weeds.
But those who peered closer on a recent afternoon saw something unexpected: still-green tomatoes bulging from their vines. Tops of carrots, known as "shoulders," poked up from the earth, while a young orchard sprouted against the weathered wall of the Major Deegan Expressway.
Final Regulations for Community Health Needs Assessments
This PDF (from Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service) contains final Internal Revenue Service regulations that provide guidance regarding the requirements for charitable hospital organizations added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. The regulations will affect charitable hospital organizations. It can be found in the...
Find new ways to explore data and resources to improve health and equity
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps has launched a new way to find and interact with data on our website.
Find strategies to support your local health priorities with WWFH’s ‘Approach’ filter
Our What Works for Health (WWFH) tool helps you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally. Did you know that we group strategies by approach to improving health to make it even easier to find what you need? For example, in the...
Finding More Data
Finding More Data provides an overview of and links to state and national data sources. It can be found in Finding More Data.