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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

Inspiring Action for Healthier Communities

Inspiring Action for Healthier Communities

The County Health Rankings illustrate how much of what influences our health happens outside of the doctor’s office—in our schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. The County Health Roadmaps provide leaders in government, business, education, health care, and other sectors with tools and assistance to create a culture of health in their communities.

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Overcoming Obstacles to Health

Creating Healthier Places to Live, Work, and Play

Creating Healthier Places to Live, Work, and Play

Investing in schools, farmers’ markets, pre-school programs, quality affordable housing, and safe places to exercise and play may be the best way to reduce America’s medical bills and help people live longer, healthier lives. Targeting the underlying social and economic factors that so often lead to poor health can lead to promising strategies to reduce health disparities and lower health care costs.

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Survey from America's Physicians

Health Care's Blind Side: The Overlooked Connection Between Social Needs and Good Health

Health Care's Blind Side: The Overlooked Connection Between Social Needs and Good Health

A national survey of physicians reveals that unmet social needs are directly leading to worse health for Americans—and that patients' social needs are as important to address as their medical conditions. The problems caused by these unmet needs impact everyone and are as important to address as their patients’ medical conditions.

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Boundary-Spanning Leaders

Meet the Leaders Who Are Transforming Health and Health Care

Meet the Leaders Who Are Transforming Health and Health Care

These visionaries are fundamentally changing the landscape. They are creating new approaches to health and health care by spanning boundaries—across areas of expertise, organizations, communities, and cultures.

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Creating Healthy Environments

Nashville's New Tune: Investing in Health

To combat the obesity epidemic in Nashville, Tennessee—where 28 percent of adults are obese and another 36 percent are overweight—the city has undertaken an ambitious effort to increase residents’ physical activity and improve their eating habits by adding sidewalks and bike lanes and making healthy food more available. By reducing the factors that lead to poor health and chronic diseases, the city is also reducing the costs of expensive care.

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Roadmaps to health

Build a Roadmap for Your Community

RWJF's County Health Roadmaps show what can be done to create healthier places to live, learn, work, and play.

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Real Results

Supporting Healthy Communities

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is helping dozens of communities across the country to reshape their environments to support healthy living and prevent childhood obesity. These videos showcase their key achievements.

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Programs that get Results

  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seeks to address health and health care problems at their roots – where we live, learn, work, and play – with a team of dedicated people and organizations.

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    Health Leads

    Envisioning a health care system in which patients’ unmet resource needs are routinely and systematically addressed as a standard element of patient care.

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    Camden Coalition

    Increasing and improving access to primary and speciality care for Camden, New Jersey's most vulnerable residents.

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    Playworks

    Improving the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.

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    Health Impact Project

    Giving policy makers the information they need to advance smarter policies today to help build safe, thriving communities tomorrow.

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    Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities

    Helping dozens of communities across the country to reshape their environments to support healthy living and prevent childhood obesity.

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RWJF DataHub

The RWJF DataHub tracks state-level data, and allows visitors to customize and visualize facts and figures.

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National Program

Forward Promise

Forward Promise is a new initiative focused on improving the health and success of middle- and high-school-aged boys and young men of color....

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Blog Posts

NY State Releases Health Improvement Plan

Prevention Agenda: New York State’s Health Improvement Plan is a 5-year plan to improve the health and quality of life for everyone who live...

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Faces of Public Health: NY State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah

New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah will release the 2013-17 Prevention Agenda: New York State’s Health Improvement Plan—a stat...

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Spending Money to Save Money in Health Care

Investing in programs that prevent chronic diseases would ultimately decrease the costly long-term expenditures driven by those diseases, As...

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Recommended Reading: What Makes One VA County Less Healthy Than Others?

A Los Angeles Times article highlights health disparities in Virginia, where women in one small town are likely to die nearly a decade earli...

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Creating a Prevention Agenda: The New York City Experience

Prevention is a key focus of many presentations at the APHA Annual Meeting. Today Thomas Farley, MD, commissioner of health and mental hygie...

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The Cost of Obesity and the ROI of Prevention

A new report, Assessing the Economics of Obesity and Obesity Interventions, by researchers from the Campaign to End Obesity, looks at the co...

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Happiness is Hot

Happiness is gaining currency today, particularly in relationship to health and medicine. That’s what we’ve been hearing ever since Harvard ...

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National Public Health Week: Public Health is ROI. Save Lives, Save Money

Spending just $10 per person in programs aimed at prevention could save the nation more than $16 billion a year. In honor of National Public...

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Blog Posts

Taking Urban Health Equity Seriously in 2013

This post is part of the "Health Care in 2013" series.

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Journal Article

Lessons from the Mammography Wars

The controversy surrounding adjustments to mammography guidelines has demonstrated that the health care industry needs to recognize gray are...

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