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County Health Rankings Model (Category)

Policies & Programs

Our model illustrates the many factors that, if improved, can help make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play. Policies and programs at the local, state, and federal levels play an important role in influencing these factors. By implementing strategies that target the specific health challenges of a community, there is an opportunity to influence how long and how well people live.

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Policies & Programs to Help Build a Culture of Health

Building Culture of Health involves comprehensive strategies to address the many things that contribute to health, opportunity, and equity in communities. In Vicksburg, MS and Buncombe County, NC -- two communities that have been recognized with a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize -- leaders and residents have implemented a broad range of policies and programs to...

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Policy Advocacy Choice Tool

This tool (from CHR&R) is a step-by-step process to help groups select the policy or systems change that will have the greatest likelihood of successful adoption in their communities. Use it along with the Policy Advocacy Choice Worksheet.

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