Driving Health Care Transformation in Communities Across America 2012
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
Healthy Communities
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Developing a Community Scorecard to Chronicle Public Health Disparities in South Los Angeles
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The South LA Health Equity Scorecard examines the health of South Los Angeles residents in the context of the social and economic policies that contribute to inequitable resource levels.
Highest-Value Preventive Services Save Billions if Applied to 90 Percent of U.S. Population
June 12, 2012 | Program Result
Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.
County Health Rankings
February 10, 2010 | Report/Video
University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.
The Community Tool Box
June 20, 2011 | Program Result
The free web-based Community Tool Box is designed to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources. It is available in English and Spanish.
Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes areas of challenge for creating successful partnerships and opportunities for further exploration.
Multisectoral Lessons from Healthy Communities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The healthy communities movement can provide insight into population health efforts in the United States, particularly in the context of recent health care reform.
Observations on Incentives to Improve Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease provide a number of perspectives relating to how incentives might work for population health improvement.
Measuring the Health of Communities
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Challenges to measuring population health exist, but as these authors note, attempting to measure the overall health of populations allows public health leaders to better allocate resources to areas of greatest need.
Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH)
June 15, 2010 | Journal Article
How are we doing — and how can we do better? These are perhaps the most basic questions a community can ask regarding the health of its residents. In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, seven essays describe the types of tools needed to measure and monitor our population's health.