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The national County Health Rankings for 2011 will be released Wednesday, March 30. The rankings give a snapshot view of every county in the nation by examining factors such as rates of obesity, smoking, uninsured adults and various diseases.
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Annual county health rankings will be released Wednesday
The national County Health Rankings for 2011 will be released Wednesday, March 30. The rankings give a snapshot view of every county in the nation by examining factors such as rates of obesity, smoking, uninsured adults and various diseases.The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will host a live teleconference that day to brief news media about the data. Speakers will include James Marks, senior vice president and director of the Health Group at the RWJF; project director Patrick Remington, associate dean for public health at the University of Wisconsin; and Joe Reardon, mayor of Kansas City, Kan.
The conference will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. EDT. For free registration, click here. To view the County Health Rankings for 2010, click here. The rankings are used to produce a county-by-county Health Outcomes Map for each state. Here is Kentucky's for last year; for an interactive version, which enables county-by-county information, click anywhere on the map.
- County Health Rankings Officials Are Coming To Kentucky Tuesday To Spotlight Local Projects To Improve Community Health
State officials and health leaders will gather April 2 at the Kentucky History Center in Frankfort to celebrate Kentucky?s successes in implementing strategies for improving health at the community level, as reflected by the latest edition of County Health...
- Ket Will Show How Annual County Health Rankings Are Stirring Competition To Improve Health, Community By Community
The rankings are in quartiles, or fourths of the 120 countiesKentuckians love the competition among their basketball and football teams. But what if that same spirit of competition was transferred to health? To help encourage such competition, and thus...
- New Health Ranking Of Counties Places Oldham At Top For Second Straight Year; Some Counties Had Big Jumps And Drops
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report of the national county health rankings shows several Kentucky counties have improved in the last two years while others have gotten significantly worse. For the second year in a row, Oldham County ranked...
- 2012 County Health Rankings Released; Meant To Spur Local Change
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News Meant to be a conversation starter to fuel change for better health, the third-annual County Health Rankings were released today, a health-evaluation tool that assesses the country's counties on everything from...
- County Health Rankings In Kentucky Show Few Changes, But Ranks Are Less Important Than The Trove Of Data They Reflect
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News The health evaluation tool that calls itself "the annual check-up of over 3,000 counties in the nation" was released today, showing little change from last year in how Kentucky counties compare when it comes to...