Tools & Resources
Measuring Progress
This tool (from CHR&R) includes detailed information and guidance for how to interpret and use the measures within the County Health Rankings to measure a community’s progress.
Discovering Community Power: A Guide To Mobilizing Local Assets And Your Organization’s Capacity
This tool (from ABCD: Asset Based Community Development, Northwestern University) is a community-building workbook that helps organizations identify strengths, resources and assets. It can be found in Assess Needs & Resources under...
Equity and Empowerment Lens: 5 Ps Worksheet
This tool (from Multnomah County) is part of Multnomah County, OR’s Equity and Empowerment Lens which seeks to improve planning, decision-making, and resource allocation leading to more racially equitable policies and programs. This worksheet asks questions in the areas of People, Place, Process, Power, and Purpose....
Beyond the County Health Snapshots
This tool (from CHR&R) is a section from Using the Rankings Data that directs you to other data sources that can help you find more data for your state and dig deeper on differences in health factors by geography or by population sub-groups. It is part of the Use the Data tool.
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.
What Works for Health
This tool (from CHR&R) can to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally.
Choosing Your Strategy
This tool (from CHR&R) provides suggested actions based on What Works for Health evidence ratings.
2013 CHR Measure Changes From 2012
This document summarizes the changes in ranked measures between 2012 and 2013.
2014 CHR Measures, Data Sources and Years
This document provides the data sources and years of data used for the 2014 ranked measures.