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One Community's Path to Creating Healthy and Equitable Opportunities
Many factors influence health outcomes, such as health behaviors, access to clinical care, physical environments, and social and economic opportunities. We often think of these as broad drivers of health—meaning the kinds of things that happen outside of our doctor’s office that contribute to the ways in which we can be healthy. It is important for everyone in our communities to have access to...
Online education: Exploring the underlying causes of health inequities
Discover a new, free online resource, the Roots of Health Inequity Course Series, from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).
Op-Ed by James S. Marks: The Intersection of Social Justice and Public Health
One day after the conclusion of the 2010 American Public Health Association meeting, James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, contributed an op-ed to the online edition of the Denver Post that looks ahead to next steps that can bring the promise of better health to all communities.
Read the op-ed, “Your ZIP code and your life expectancy,” here.
Opening the Door to New Opportunities
As the 2021 RWJF Culture of Health Prize application deadline draws closer, one of the most frequently asked questions we hear from applicants is how winning the Prize has helped past communities advance their work.
Opinion: Wellness Programs Help Make City Healthier
John Pauly, provost of Marquette University, and David Werner, president of Park Bank,cited the County Health Rankings in an opinion article published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on July 16. Here is an excerpt from their article about promoting health through workplace wellness:
Osborne Association Receives National Recognition
This morning, Elizabeth Gaynes, Executive Director of the Osborne Association, was honored by the White House as a national Champion of Change for her dedication to supporting children, caregivers, and families impacted by incarceration. The Osborne Association, a...
Our 2017 Rankings are here!
The new 2017 County Health Rankings are now live! Search for your county or state to get started.
You’ll find updated data for your county, along with new resources and tools such as:
Our 2017 Key Findings Report, which points to rising rates of premature death...
Oxiris Barbot on Healthy Baltimore 2015
For decades Baltimore has been plagued with high rates of serious illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and HIV/AIDS, and struggled with social problems including unemployment, poverty and violence that often lead to poor health. As a result, Baltimoreans are living too sick and dying too young.
Partner Up! For Public Health "Power Ratings"
Using the County Health Rankings and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs county economic rankings, Georgia’s “Partner Up! For Public Health” advocacy campaign has developed a research project and presentation that visually illustrates how Georgia’s economic vitality and population health go hand in hand.