Using the County Health Rankings to characterize the distribution of health factors within statesPark, Hyojun
15.8% Population With No Health Insurance National Average: 11.5% 15.5% Smoking Rate National Average: 19.0% N/A years Life Expectancy National Average: 75.8 years Ranking Details Access to Care Score N/A Metric County U.S. PeerGroup State Hospital Bed Availability /1k 0.0 2.7 N/A 3.1 Pop...
Steven Ross JohnsonJan. 7, 2025 What to Know: Warning Label on Alcohol Even one drink per day may increase the risk of breast cancer in women, studies show. Cecelia Smith-SchoenwalderJan. 3, 2025 The 15 Richest Counties in the U.S. ...
This paper describes how local health departments (LHDs) in Florida used the County Health Rankings over the first two years of their release (2010 – 2011). We surveyed LHD leadership to describe if, how and to what extent the Rankings were used by Florida's 67 LHDs to improve the heal...
Law and policy often play an important role in protecting and improving the health of a community. In February 2010, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute released the County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Healththe first...
Stackerused data from the2020 County Health Rankingsto rank every state's average life expectancy from lowest to highest. The 2020 County Health Rankings values were calculated using mortality counts from the 2016-2018 National Center for Health Statistics. The U.S. Census2019 American Community Sur...
Thefifth annual Healthiest Communities rankingslooked at 89 different factors to rank the health of over 3,000 counties across the country. These included health care access and outcomes; mental health; environment; community vitality, and other health-related topics. ...
Recognizing that counties are overwhelmed by overuse of incarceration for those with mental health and substance use disorders and by the lack of health services for justice-involved individuals in the community, the National Association of Counties (NACo), the Council of State Governments (CSG) ...
And while Minnesota, as a state, ranked relatively high overall, several counties here in the Land of 10,000 Lakes placed very highly in this year's survey. The fifth annual Healthiest Communities rankings looked at 89 different factors to rank the health of over 3,000 counties across the ...
60State Average 55 Peer Group AverageRural, High-Performing 48U.S. Average Read our methodology to see how the scores and rankings were calculated. Rankings Population Health 78 Equity 85 Education 55 Economy 65 Housing 30 Food & Nutrition 95 Environment 68 Public Safety 77 Community Vitality 70...