21 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
21.1 Organization
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
21.3 Description
- Measure the heath of nearly all US counties and rank them within states (not across states)
- Help communities understand what influences health and length of life
- 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
21.6 Collection Methodology
- Rankings compiled using county-level measures from a variety of national and state data sources
- Measures standardized and combined using scientifically-informed weights
- Measures closely aligned with America’s Health Rankings which ranks the health of states