2 America’s Health Rankings
2.3 Description
- Measure and ranks the heath of each US state through an annual report (behaviors, policies, community and environmental conditions, and clinical care), a senior report (population aged 65 and older), health of women and children report (women of reproductive age and infants and children under 18 years), and health of those who have served report
- Explores policies and programs; health factors such as physical environment (e.g. air quality, water quality, housing, transit), social and economic factors (e.g. education, employment, income, family and social support, community safety), clinical care (e.g. access to care, quality of care), and health behaviors (e.g. tobacco use, diet and exercise, alcohol and drug use, sexual activity); and, health outcomes such as length of life and quality of life
2.6 Collection Methodology
- Use a variety of national and state data sources to gather information about behaviors, community and environment, public and health policies, clinical care, and health outcomes
- Calculates standardized values for each state and measure again the national value
- Eliminate outliers and weight accordingly
- Rank states according to the sum of the standardized scores across all measures
2.8 User Guide/Data Dictionary
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/learn/reports/2022-annual-report