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Posted
April 01, 2011

2011 County Health Rankings released

The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released on Wednesday the 2011 County Health Rankings (Source: “Delaware County ranked healthiest; Scioto, lowest,” Columbus Dispatch, March 30, 2011).

The analysis uses data collected at the community level to rank every county in every state in the nation based on health outcomes (premature death, quality of life and poor birth results) and health factors (smoking, unsafe sex, access to health care, education and environment comprehensive). Click here for an interactive map of the Ohio rankings.

"The goal of this project is to mobilize action to improve. The data that we give is just a snapshot, a single place in time. It's to sort of get people's attention," said Bridget Booske, senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in Madison.

In the coming months, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Network of Public Health Institutes, will be using the Rankings to assist in identifying a county for the implementation of an evidence-based public health practice.