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Using a new approach to data to understand health and equity in your community
This webinar explores how to use County Health Rankings & Roadmaps’ latest data and tools, including our new approach to summarizing and communicating a county’s health relative to others.
Using Law and Policy to Create Equitable Communities
Within every community, there are significant differences in peoples’ health and their opportunities to live long and healthy lives. Policy changes can be key to both transforming health in a community and helping to eliminate inequities. But when policies aren’t created or enforced with equity in mind, they may perpetuate these disparities – or even amplify them.
What Works for Health 101
This 20 minute webinar will explore What Works for Health (WWFH), an online resource that provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed strategies (i.e., policies, programs, systems and environmental changes) that can help improve health behaviors, clinical care, the physical environment, and the social & economic factors that affect health....
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.
Working Toward Food Security Through Community Engagement
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are being forced to make choices between food and transportation, utilities, and medical care—leaving even more at risk of ongoing food insecurity.