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Health Behaviors
Tobacco Use How many pregnant women or high school age individuals smoke? What local or state policies are in place regarding secondhand smoke? How...
Health Gaps Report
These reports (from CHR&R) help answer the question: Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to...
Housing & Transit Measurement Strategies
Researchers have used a variety of strategies to measure the quality of housing and transit in communities, ranging from geographic information systems to observational...
How to Use Your Health Snapshot
The county snapshots provide tools to help make sense of county-level data. The snapshot data and these accompanying tools should be used to help...
Income Measurement Strategies
Researchers have used various strategies to measure poverty; these include: indicating severity of poverty, such as “near poverty” or “extreme poverty,” differentiating the population...
Measuring Progress & Change
Quartiles and ranks are great for garnering attention, simplifying a lot of complex data, and making comparisons between one community and another at a...
Methods
The County Health Rankings measures the health of nearly all counties in the nation and ranks them within states. The Rankings are compiled using...