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School-community liaisons
Provide students from public schools, from low income backgrounds, or who have a high risk of dropping out and their families with information about social services and health care supports; also called community resource or family and community liaisons
Scrap programs for old vehicles
Provide incentives to trade in old cars or light duty trucks with low fuel efficiency and high emissions and buy new vehicles with higher efficiency and lower emissions; also called scrappage or vehicle early retirement programs
Screen time interventions for children
Encourage children to spend time away from TV and other stationary screen media, often as part of a multi-faceted effort to increase physical activity and improve nutrition
Secondhand smoke education interventions
Use counseling, informational materials, etc. to inform smokers and non-smokers of the harms of secondhand smoke and encourage them to implement home smoking bans
Sector-based workforce initiatives
Provide industry-focused education and job training based on the needs of regional employers within specific sectors
See examples of Communities in Action
To help communities take action to improve health, we’ve added some new examples of communities’ experiences with implementing strategies listed in What Works for Health (WWFH) or key activities in our Roadmaps to Health...
See the Key Findings from our 2015 Rankings
Detailing how we rank, how our program helps communities improve health, and our new measures and data for 2015, the new County Health Rankings Key Findings Report is an overview of our latest release. In this year’s report you’ll find: The health of our nation’s counties, including where the top counties are for health...
Seeing is believing: Harnessing the power of maps to visualize health
The 2024 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps data are now available in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, an online collection of geographic information.
Seller & server minimum age
Require a minimum age for sellers in off-premise locations that sell alcohol and servers and bartenders in on-premise locations
Service-enriched housing
Provide permanent, basic rental housing with social services available on-site or by referral, usually for families with low incomes, older adults, veterans, or people with disabilities