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Flu Vaccinations

Percentage of fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare enrollees who had an annual flu vaccination.
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Foard, Texas

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Focus Group Analysis Guidance

This modifiable tool (from NACCHO) describes the Healthy!CapitalCounties (MI) plan for analyzing focus group data, including their overarching goal, coding procedures, and data organization plan.

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Focus on What’s Important: Webinar Recap

On July 10 the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps webinar series profiled Bexar County, Texas, where collaborators used the National Association of County and City Health Officials' Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) tool to guide their Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

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Focusing on Early Childhood Programs to Improve Community Health

In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America released 10 recommendations to improve health outside of health care. One of those initial recommendations was “ensure that all children have high-quality early developmental support (child care, education, and other services).” The 2013 reconvening of the...

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Focusing on food equity priorities in Joplin, MO

Joplin, Missouri is a place of hope. Three years after an EF5 multiple-vortex tornado cut a one mile swath through the city, the area is being reborn through the collaborative efforts of hundreds of organizations and thousands of volunteers who have proven resilient and committed. However, in spite of many outreach efforts, many families in the Joplin area are experiencing food insecurity. In...

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Focusing on Unhealthy Behaviors in Muskegon County, Michigan

When the 2010 County Health Rankings were released, Muskegon County’s Healthy on the Shore coalition was already in the planning stages. But the information in the Rankings — where the Michigan county ranked 64th in health outcomes and 70th in health behaviors, out of 82 counties — helped reinforce the need for the task force, focusing on improving unhealthy behaviors in the area.