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What Works for Health: Education Strategies Added
Education is one of the key factors that can make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play – but when we try to improve education, what works? To help communities tackling this question, we added four new strategies to What Works for Health (WWFH).
Three of...
What’s in a disparity rating? Identifying evidence-informed strategies to advance equity
What Works for Health evidence analysts are engaging in a process to strengthen the enhance disparity ratings to reflect how a strategy might influence disparities among a range of characteristics such as age, gender, and disability.
What’s in a disparity rating? Simple yet nuanced is key to a successful tool
The What Works for Health team recently engaged scholars and practitioners who use the tool in their communities. The discussions revealed a tension familiar to those in public health: How can we communicate complex information in a simple way while still maintaining accuracy and nuance?
What’s new for 2019!
As we head into our annual County Health Rankings release, we’re excited to provide new data and resources for taking action to improve health. Here’s what you’ll now find on our website:
Updated data and new measures of community health
Annually, since 2010, we’ve been providing snapshots of health for every county in the nation, and now you’ll find...
What’s New for the 2021 Rankings
The 2021 County Health Rankings are now available! Check out what's new across our website for our 2021 refresh.
What's New for the 2023 Rankings
Sharing what is new for the 2023 County Health Rankings release.
What’s the State of Obesity where you live?
We know the harmful effects obesity has on our health – that’s why the County Health Rankings has been tracking it through our Adult Obesity measure, allowing counties to evaluate obesity rates over time. Now a new report shows that adult obesity rates are still high overall,...
Where You Live Matters to Your Health
Angela Russell, Community Engagement Lead for the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps recently spoke in Sacramento, Calif., about using federal and state health care data to make policy changes at the local level.
Why the Census Matters to Health Equity
Every decade the U.S. Census provides an opportunity for residents in every community to be counted. The census is one of the most important datasets in the United States. In fact, much of the data reported in the County Health Rankings snapshots are census-related data. While we often associate the census with congressional representation, census data matter significantly to health equity.
Why Wealth Matters to Your Health
In this webinar, our panel of experts will discuss how this gap began, why it persists, and why traditional pathways to wealth have not closed the racial wealth gap.