The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released its sixth annual County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, a joint project with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, which ranks the health of each state’s county against the healthiest county in the state and provides strategies for improvement. Comparisons are not available for counties from different states. Individual counties are judged on social and economic factors (40%) such as education, employment and income; health behaviors (30%) such as smoking, diet and alcohol consumption; access to and quality of local clinical care (20%); and physical environment factors (20%) such as air quality, housing and transit.
Read more: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/