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Kentucky TV Shares Stories of Using the Rankings to Make Positive Change

Tomorrow (Tuesday, September 17, 9 p.m. Eastern), Kentucky Educational Television will air a program looking at how communities are taking the data from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program and are making positive change. 

The Health Three60 program, “Healthy Competition: How County Health Rankings Are Catalyzing Change,” features three regions...

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In It For The Long-Haul: How Coalition Building in Louisville is Supporting Families Impacted by Mass Incarceration

Situated on the banks of the Ohio River on Kentucky’s northwest border, Louisville is most frequently known as home to whiskey distilleries, the Kentucky Derby, and the famous Louisville Slugger baseball bats. However, more recently, it is also home to a community grappling with the death of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville resident and EMT, and public calls for police accountability.

Health factors, life expectancy often go hand-in-hand

New life expectancy maps recently released by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) show us that babies born only a few miles apart face vastly different chances of living a long and healthy life.  A Kentucky map...