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Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim

This website  (from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) provides background information, as well as tools and success stories, about the IHI's Triple Aim to improve the patient experience and population health and to decrease healthcare costs. It can be found in the ...

Integrating Volunteers Into a Campaign Plan

This tool (from M + R ) will help you think about how to effectively involve volunteers in all aspects of your campaign to keep them engaged.

Interested in our Program and Improving Community Health? Check Out These New Job Listings

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program has three job openings, and if you’re passionate about helping communities improve their health, recognizing the good work of communities, or researching population health, look at these opportunities with our program:

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International Walk to School Day, Oct. 5

Today is Walk to School Day, and children, parents, teachers and community leaders in all 50 states are dusting off their sneakers, getting out their bikes and taking part.

Walking to school is an easy way to address three of the many factors that influence the overall health of a community:
1.    Integrating physical activity into daily routines can help combat obesity and prevent chronic disease.

Interpreting Trend Graphs  

This tool (from CHR&R) provides additional guidance for interpreting trend graphs included in your County Health Snapshot.

Intervention Planning Matrix

This tool (from the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute) is a worksheet designed to help you consider strategies that could be utilized to address the identified health issue at the individual, organization/institution, and community levels.

Intervention Planning Matrix: Activity to support learning

This downloadable PowerPoint slide deck lays out an activity to use with your partners to practice using the Intervention Planning Matrix. 

Introducing a new approach to county health data

This year, we’re introducing a new approach and sharper tools to help you understand how long and how well people are living in counties across the nation.

Introducing a new way to view county health data

Over the last decade, CHR&R ranked the health of counties within states, providing a simple way to understand differences in health. We have replaced that method with a sharper tool that allows comparisons of a county’s health with other counties, whether that’s in the same state or across the nation.

Introduction to Storytelling

This tool (from Spitfire Strategies) identifies the elements of a good story, how to collect stories and identify best uses, and how to create a story bank to easily access them when needed. It can be found in Communicate under ...