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Ranking community health status to stimulate discussion of local public health issues: The Wisconsin County health rankings

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  • Peppard, P.E.
  • Kindig, D.A.
  • Dranger, E.
  • Jovaag, A.
  • Remington, P.L.

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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.

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  • Peppard, P.E. & Kindig, D.A. & Dranger, E. & Jovaag, A. & Remington, P.L., 2008. "Ranking community health status to stimulate discussion of local public health issues: The Wisconsin County health rankings," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 98(2), pages 209-212.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2006.092981_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.092981
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    1. Charles Courtemanche & Samir Soneji & Rusty Tchernis, 2013. "Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings," NBER Working Papers 19450, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. McCarthy, Ian M., 2016. "Eliminating composite bias in treatment effects estimates: Applications to quality of life assessment," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 47-58.
    3. Nesson, Erik T. & Robinson, Joshua J., 2015. "An information theory based framework for the measurement of population health," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 17(C), pages 86-103.
    4. Schwarzkopf, David L., 2019. "Persistent peers and the rhetoric of state economic competition," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 46-53.

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