Search
US cigarette smoking rates drop to new low
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that the number of Americans who smoke cigarettes dropped to a record low of 15 percent of the population – about 35.6 million Americans. According to the data, there were significant reductions in smoking across all ages and...
US COVID Atlas: Exploring Data to Move to Action
As the COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the nation, an endless stream of data has flooded our inboxes, news outlets, and social media. But as communities navigate the crisis, response, and recovery, it’s more crucial than ever to connect this data with our own community contexts.
Use Our Action Learning Guides as Your Roadmap to Change
Are you ready to be an agent of change in your community, but don’t know where to start? Without a roadmap to navigate complex policies, concepts, and paths to partnerships, figuring out the first step to creating meaningful change in your community can feel challenging. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps can help you get started on your journey through a new suite of Action Learning Guide...
Use the Rankings During National Public Health Week, April 2-8, 2012
The 2012 County Health Rankings are out—just in time for National Public Health Week!
Using a new approach to data to understand health and equity in your community
This webinar explores how to use County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ latest data and tools, including our new approach to summarizing and communicating a county’s health relative to others.
Using data to tell the story of health by place
The 2025 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) data are now available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, an online collection of geographic information including place-based datasets and interactive maps.
Using Law and Policy to Create Equitable Communities
Within every community, there are significant differences in peoples’ health and their opportunities to live long and healthy lives. Policy changes can be key to both transforming health in a community and helping to eliminate inequities. But when policies aren’t created or enforced with equity in mind, they may perpetuate these disparities – or even amplify them.
Using the Rankings Data
Want to use the County Health Rankings data but don’t know where to start? This webinar is for you! The Using the Rankings Data webinar will help you get the most out of the Rankings and the wealth of data underlying them. We will look at key areas to explore and discuss other information that can help you further understand the health in your...
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.