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Value Based Purchasing Guide
This website (from National Business Coalition on Health) provides access to a guide that can assist your company in learning more about and designing your employee health benefits in a way that increases value through employees' wellness activities, chronic disease management, and incentives for providers to provide higher quality care.
Vicksburg’s Continued Journey and the Power of Listening
Vicksburg, Mississippi is one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Culture of Health Prize winning communities. We spoke to Michele Connelly, United Way of West Central Mississippi’s...
Video: Community Health Partnerships - “We Need Everyone at the Table”
Community partnerships are vital for an effective public health system, according to Judith Monroe, M.D., the newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support.
Video Facilitation Guide
This guide offers reflection questions and tips for a facilitated conversation about a video or film.
Video: Introducing the 2010 County Health Rankings
How healthy is your county? What do the Rankings mean? How can you use the Rankings to improve health in your community? Join County Health Rankings researchers and RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey for a video spotlight answering these questions and telling the story of how one county used the Rankings to inspire action and change the health status quo.
Video: Taking Action in Clare County, Michigan
Intended as a "call to action" for state and local health departments, the County Health Rankings have already galvanized communities to take positive action in spots all over the country. When Clare County, Michigan, ranked last in its state, Central Michigan District Health Officer Mary Kushion immediately convened a summit to engage leaders, officials, and community-members in a discussion of the rankings.
Videos: The Stories of San Bernardino, CA and Hernando, MS
San Bernardino County, CA County Health Department takes lead to improve area’s poor health ranking
Virginia Commonwealth University Releases New Life Expectancy Maps for Major U.S. Cities
Four new life expectancy maps illustrate that opportunities to lead long and healthy lives vary dramatically by neighborhood. Released today, the maps— created by researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)—highlight how babies born only miles apart in cities including...
Visualizing the Data
Visualizing the Data provides a guide to maps and other ways of interpreting data. It is part of the Use the Data tool.