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How a Low Ranking on Health Mobilized Wyandotte County

When Wyandotte County, Kansas finished dead last in a 2009 health rankings study, Mayor Joe Reardon wanted some answers.

The Kansas County Health Rankings showed that Wyandotte County, which includes Kansas City, was the least healthy of 105 counties in the state. The study looked at multiple factors that affect health, including behaviors like smoking, factors in the environment like clean air, access to care, and socio-economic factors like poverty.

How a Low Ranking on Health Mobilized Wyandotte County, Kansas

How are Communities Using Rankings Data to Improve Local Health?

Throughout the country, residents and local community leaders are using County Health Rankings data to prioritize and coordinate health improvement efforts. Two projects are now highlighted on our stories page.

How Can Reforming Public Safety and Incarceration Impact Public Health?

How is public safety part of your community’s health?  County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program staff welcomed community leaders from 2013 RWJF Culture of Health Prize community, Santa Cruz County, CA to share how they addressed the issues of crime, safety and incarceration to improve community health.

According to representatives from Santa Cruz...

How can the Rankings continue to help local communities improve health for all?

As many of you know, the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program (CHR&R) can be a go-to source for local communities in raising awareness of the broad range of factors that matter to our health and driving change in these areas. But what you may not realize is that each year, state by state, the Rankings also draw attention to the meaningful gaps from the best to...

How Can We Help Our Grantees Strengthen Their Capacity for Evaluation?

This tool highlights suggestions from foundations, including assessing a foundation's own capacity for evaluation; encouraging a sense of ownership among grantees around the evaluation process; and combining group-based and one-on-one training. This link can be found in the Philanthropy &...

How Can We Lift Up the Connection Between Housing and Health?

While living in Pittsburgh in the 1960s, Dorothy Richardson recognized the impact housing and community development have on health. Richardson, a Black homemaker, lived in a neighborhood experiencing disinvestment and decline, at least partially due to policies like redlining. At the time, many cities like Pittsburgh thought urban renewal—or the complete demolishing of neighborhoods like...