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Making the most out of community data: County Health Rankings Research Projects
How can County Health Rankings data be applied to community health or influencing policy? In January of 2015 we released a call for research applications to look into that question, and we selected five proposals. With that work concluding, here are some of...
Making Use of Your Snapshot
Making Use of Your Snapshot (from CHR&R) helps you navigate the information in your county’s snapshot and identify key areas where you may wish to look for additional data. It is part of the Use the Data tool.
Mapping Life Expectancy
This project, run by the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health, has created a series of maps that prominently display life expectancy values alongside common geographic landmarks such as subway stops and highway exits. This is an example of how community development and health professionals can team up to tell powerful stories about social determinants of health...
March 30 Teleconference and Twitter Q&A: How Healthy is Your County?
TELECONFERENCE: HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR COUNTY? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, University of Wisconsin to Release 2011 County Health Rankings March 30, 2011 10:00-11:00am EDT NOTE: Teleconference registration is now closed. A recording of the teleconference will be available starting at 11:00 a.m. ET on March 30, 2011 at 800-283-8486.
Massachusetts Coalition for a Healthy Future Bylaws
This tool (from kj Consulting) is an example of bylaws from a tobacco coalition with a fiscal agent.
Massachusetts’ Rise to the Top: How This Year’s Healthiest State is Building a Culture of Health at the Community Level
In the recently released America’s Health Rankings, Massachusetts was the healthiest state in the country, moving from second in 2016 to first in 2017. For almost 30 years, the America’s Health Rankings Annual Report has served as the longest running annual assessment of the nation’s health on a...
Mayors Johnson and Reardon in Roll Call: "Health Investment for Cities, Nation is Smart"
In Roll Call today, Mayors Johnson (Hernando, Mississippi) and Reardon (Wyandotte, Kansas) called for more investment in local public health and prevention throughout the country. They both used the County Health Rankings to find where their local health investments will see the highest rate of return.
Measuring Community Health: Essays Exploring Selection and Use of Metrics in Efforts to Improve Health Featured in CDC Journal
The July 2010 edition of Preventing Chronic Disease features a set of essays and commentaries on selecting the best tools, or metrics, for measuring and monitoring the health of communities. The essays and commentaries were commissioned by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of their Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) initiative. A key component of MATCH is the County Health Rankings, the first set of reports to rank the overall health of nearly every county in all 50 states.
Measuring Progress
This tool (from CHR&R) includes detailed information and guidance for how to interpret and use the measures within the County Health Rankings to measure a community’s progress.