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Press Release: How Healthy is Your County? New County Health Rankings Give First County-By-County Snapshot of Health in Each State
University of Wisconsin/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Project
Ranks Counties on How Healthy People Are and How Long They Live
For More Information, Contact:
Kay Campbell or Becky Wexler at 301-652-1558
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
12:01 a.m. EST
Price transparency initiatives for patients
Make pricing for hospital procedures and other health care services publicly available, often via websites, online databases, report cards, or similar tools
Primary seat belt enforcement laws
Allow law enforcement officials to stop drivers solely for failing to use a seat belt
Professionally trained medical interpreters
Provide interpretation services for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in outpatient and inpatient health care settings, following training and certification
Promise Academy Charter Schools
Create a school culture of high behavioral and academic expectations, with intense tutoring, increased teacher performance feedback, lengthened instruction time, and health care services
Proper drug disposal programs
Establish programs that accept expired, unwanted, or unused medicines from designated users and dispose of them responsibly
Public deliberations
Bring people with diverse values and perspectives together to engage in facilitated, inclusive, and informed dialogues about a topic of public concern. Examples include Citizens’ Initiative Reviews, deliberative polling, citizen juries, and citizen’s assemblies.
Public libraries for community building
Lend materials, offer gathering space, and provide educational, civic, and social programming; open to the community and publicly funded
Public reporting of health care quality performance
Make clinician, hospital, clinic, long-term care facility, and insurance plan performance on health care quality measures publicly available via report cards, reporting websites, or similar tools