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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 Rankings by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Representatives of the foundation and the university will be at the Frankfort event, arranged by the state Department of Public Health, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, which is planning a statewide campaign to improve Kentucky's health status, community by community.
The event will highlight promising local health projects and initiatives to improve community health. It will feature four Kentucky counties ? Grant, Todd, Floyd and Franklin counties ? that have used the County Health Rankings to help their communities begin to show signs of progress. Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson will highlight Gov. Steve Beshear?s "Kyhealthnow" initiative to significantly improve Kentucky?s dismal health rankings and habits.
The County Health Rankings allow counties to see how well they are doing on 29 factors that influence health, including smoking, high school graduation rates, employment, physical inactivity and access to healthy foods. This year?s rankings include several new measures including housing, transportation and access to mental health providers.
?The County Health Rankings are a starting point for change, helping communities come together, identify priorities, and create solutions that will help all in our diverse society live healthier lives, now and for generations to come.?said Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nationally, this year?s Rankings show that people living in the least healthy counties are twice as likely to have shorter lives as people living in the healthiest counties. For a story on the rankings in Kentucky, click here.
Representatives of the foundation and the university will be at the Frankfort event, arranged by the state Department of Public Health, the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and the Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation, which is planning a statewide campaign to improve Kentucky's health status, community by community.
The event will highlight promising local health projects and initiatives to improve community health. It will feature four Kentucky counties ? Grant, Todd, Floyd and Franklin counties ? that have used the County Health Rankings to help their communities begin to show signs of progress. Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson will highlight Gov. Steve Beshear?s "Kyhealthnow" initiative to significantly improve Kentucky?s dismal health rankings and habits.
The County Health Rankings allow counties to see how well they are doing on 29 factors that influence health, including smoking, high school graduation rates, employment, physical inactivity and access to healthy foods. This year?s rankings include several new measures including housing, transportation and access to mental health providers.
?The County Health Rankings are a starting point for change, helping communities come together, identify priorities, and create solutions that will help all in our diverse society live healthier lives, now and for generations to come.?said Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nationally, this year?s Rankings show that people living in the least healthy counties are twice as likely to have shorter lives as people living in the healthiest counties. For a story on the rankings in Kentucky, click here.
- County Health Rankings Look Familiar, But Show That Some Counties Overcame Bad Factors To Have Encouraging Outcomes
The 2015 County Health Rankings for Kentucky, compiled by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, have been released. For the fourth year in a row, Oldham County ranked highest...
- 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...
- 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...