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Jul 2, 2012How Healthy Is Your County?
How healthy is your County? The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has gathered data for all the nation's counties and has created a healthy county index. New Hanover does pretty well for a NC County but still has room for improvement to meet national health benchmarks. Other parts of our area have even more opportunity for improvement.
Sounds pretty daunting to be charged with improving a county's health, doesn't it? It is daunting if looked at in total but the data provides a roadmap to improvement. The rankings are actually composed of many subsets such as infant mortality, healthy/unhealthy behaviors, education and a host of additional factors. There are 24 total measures. As each relevant organization in a county addresses its mission it is affecting one or more of these factors. Together all those individual efforts can have a real impact.
Here's a link to the Foundation's database, County Health Rankings.
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