Tools & Resources
What Works for Health Overview
This one-page overview brochure describes the What Works for Health tool.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Overview
This brief overview brochure describes the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program and its offerings.
What Works for Health Shortcut
Looking for a shortcut to effectively use What Works for Health, our tool to help you find evidence-informed policies, programs, systems, and environmental changes that can make a difference locally? We've added a new resource to help you do just that.
Choose Shortcut
This document provides a two-page summary of steps in the Action Center's Choose Effective Policies & Programs guide.
2021 County Health Rankings Research Grant Call for Proposals
This is the application and background material for the 2021 County Health Rankings Research Grants Call for Proposals.
Racial Equity Impact Assessment
A Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) examines how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision. REIAs are used to minimize unanticipated adverse consequences in a variety of contexts, including the analysis of proposed policies, institutional practices, programs, plans and budgetary decisions.
County Health Rankings Model
This model of population health emphasizes the many factors that, if improved, can help make communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
County Health Rankings Press Release, March 16, 2016
County Health Rankings show stark differences in premature death rates between rural and urban counties. It can be found in For the Media.
2016 Data Comparability Across States
This document provides guidance for comparing measures across states. It can be found in Using the Rankings Data, under Exploring the Data.