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Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings

United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which ranks the states from “least healthy” to “healthiest,” receives wide press coverage and promotes discussion of public health issues. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute used the United Health Foundation’s model to develo...

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Prif Awduron: Peppard, Paul E., Kindig, David A., Dranger, Elizabeth, Jovaag, Amanda, Remington, Patrick L.
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Mynediad Ar-lein:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376892/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18172156
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.092981
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spelling pubmed-23768922010-02-01 Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings Peppard, Paul E. Kindig, David A. Dranger, Elizabeth Jovaag, Amanda Remington, Patrick L. Am J Public Health Field Action Report United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which ranks the states from “least healthy” to “healthiest,” receives wide press coverage and promotes discussion of public health issues. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute used the United Health Foundation’s model to develop the Wisconsin County Health Rankings (“Health Rankings”) from existing county-level data. The institute first released the rankings in 2004. A survey of the Wisconsin county health officers indicated that they intend to use the rankings for needs assessment, program planning, and discussion with county health boards. The institute implemented many of the health officers’ suggestions for improvement of the rankings in subsequent editions. The methods employed to create the rankings should be applicable in other states. American Public Health Association 2008-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2376892/ /pubmed/18172156 http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.092981 Text en © American Journal of Public Health 2008
institution US National Library of Medicine
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topic Field Action Report
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Peppard, Paul E.
Kindig, David A.
Dranger, Elizabeth
Jovaag, Amanda
Remington, Patrick L.
Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
description United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings, which ranks the states from “least healthy” to “healthiest,” receives wide press coverage and promotes discussion of public health issues. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute used the United Health Foundation’s model to develop the Wisconsin County Health Rankings (“Health Rankings”) from existing county-level data. The institute first released the rankings in 2004. A survey of the Wisconsin county health officers indicated that they intend to use the rankings for needs assessment, program planning, and discussion with county health boards. The institute implemented many of the health officers’ suggestions for improvement of the rankings in subsequent editions. The methods employed to create the rankings should be applicable in other states.
author Peppard, Paul E.
Kindig, David A.
Dranger, Elizabeth
Jovaag, Amanda
Remington, Patrick L.
author_facet Peppard, Paul E.
Kindig, David A.
Dranger, Elizabeth
Jovaag, Amanda
Remington, Patrick L.
author_sort Peppard, Paul E.
title Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
title_short Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
title_full Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
title_fullStr Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
title_full_unstemmed Ranking Community Health Status to Stimulate Discussion of Local Public Health Issues: The Wisconsin County Health Rankings
title_sort ranking community health status to stimulate discussion of local public health issues: the wisconsin county health rankings
publisher American Public Health Association
publisher_facet American Public Health Association
publishDate 2008
url https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376892/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18172156
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2006.092981
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