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What Works for Health: Education Strategies Added
Education is one of the key factors that can make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play – but when we try to improve education, what works? To help communities tackling this question, we added four new strategies to What Works for Health (WWFH).
Three of...
What Works for Health Overview
This one-page overview brochure describes the What Works for Health tool.
What Works for Health Shortcut
Looking for a shortcut to effectively use What Works for Health, our tool to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally? We've added a new resource to help you do just that.
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health
What Works for Health: Strategies to Improve Rural Health outlines key steps toward building healthy communities – rural, urban, and anywhere in between – along with some specific policies and programs that can improve health. This report highlights selected strategies from What Works for Health.
What Works for Health Tutorial
What Works for Health provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors we know affect health.
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- Health data: County snapshot
What’s in a disparity rating? Identifying evidence-informed strategies to advance equity
What Works for Health evidence analysts are engaging in a process to strengthen the enhance disparity ratings to reflect how a strategy might influence disparities among a range of characteristics such as age, gender, and disability.
What’s in a disparity rating? Simple yet nuanced is key to a successful tool
The What Works for Health team recently engaged scholars and practitioners who use the tool in their communities. The discussions revealed a tension familiar to those in public health: How can we communicate complex information in a simple way while still maintaining accuracy and nuance?
What’s new for 2019!
As we head into our annual County Health Rankings release, we’re excited to provide new data and resources for taking action to improve health. Here’s what you’ll now find on our website:
Updated data and new measures of community health
Annually, since 2010, we’ve been providing snapshots of health for every county in the nation, and now you’ll find...
What’s New for the 2021 Rankings
The 2021 County Health Rankings are now available! Check out what's new across our website for our 2021 refresh.