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Breaking Down the Rankings Model: Tobacco and Alcohol Use
Tobacco use and excessive drinking are both leading causes of preventable death in the United States. Over 20 percent or the US adult population currently smokes cigarettes and 15 percent of adults drink excessively. The burden of tobacco use and alcohol is taking a large toll on the health of local communities throughout the United...
Breastfeeding promotion programs
Provide education, information, counseling, and support for breastfeeding to parents throughout pre- and post-natal care
Breath testing checkpoints
Implement checkpoints where law enforcement officers can stop drivers suspected of drinking and driving and assess their level of alcohol impairment
Bridge programs for hard-to-employ adults
Provide basic skills (e.g., reading, math, writing, English language, or soft skills) and industry-specific training with other supports; also called occupationally contextualized basic education programs
Bringing a public health focus to gun policies
More than 41,000 people in the United States die from gun violence every year. Our team recently updated gun policy strategies in our What Works for Health database featuring the latest research, evidence and implementation examples.
Broadband initiatives for unserved and underserved areas
Expand broadband availability and adoption in unserved and underserved areas through initiatives that address infrastructure and cost barriers
BUILD Health Challenge Awards Announced
On June 9th, the BUILD Health Challenge held an event to announce grants to 18 communities for innovative projects to improve health in low-income communities. Created by the Advisory Board Company, the de Beaumont Foundation, the Colorado Health Foundation, The Kresge Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the challenge...
Building a Culture of Health means being attentive to biases
We, at County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, like many across the country, are working to deepen our efforts around health equity. We created an internal work group on health equity in early 2015 to further support a foundation for health equity by enriching our understanding of the barriers and opportunities for everyone to be their healthiest, and by growing our confidence in...
Building Civic Health through Healthy Democracies
In June 2021, we released the Civic Engagement and Population Health Compendium, which articulates concepts and measures relevant to civic engagement that extend beyond voter registration and voter turnout, including information about inequities in participation by race, gender, socioeconomic status, and immigrant status.