Go to the County Health Rankings project homepage at
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
1. Click on “Explore Health Rankings”, go to “Find County Rankings” and type in the County of San Diego2. From the top menu select “Rankings” scroll down and click on your county under Health OutcomesOverall Rank. Submit your responses to questions 3 – 7 below next to each bullet and bold andunderline your answers 3. Under Health Outcomes, select the link that says Premature Death.• Summarize in one or two sentences identify the time period covered, and what the indicatormeans.• Compare the Premature Death rate in your county with the Premature Death rate foryour state overall.• Is your county worse or better off than most other counties within your state? Explain yourbasis for this comparison. Substantiate your assessment by citing the relevant quantitativedata.• Assess the quality of the data for this indicator for your county. Do you think it may be more orless reliable than data for other counties in your state? How do you know?• How important is this measure in the overall health rankings for your county? Do you thinkthat’s appropriate, or would you weight it differently? If so, why? 4. Under Health Outcomes, select at least one of the other indicators listed.• Summarize in one or two sentences identify the time period covered, and what the indicatormeans.• Compare data for this indicator in your county with comparable data for this indicatorfor your state overall.• Is your county worse or better off than most other counties within your state? Explainyour basis for this comparison. Substantiate your assessment by citing the relevantquantitative data.• Assess the quality of the data for this indicator for your county. Do you think it may bemore or less reliable than data for other counties in your state? How do you know?• How important is this measure in the overall health rankings for your county? Do youthink that’s appropriate, or would you weight it differently? If so, why?5. Under Health Factors, select at least one indicator from each of the four domains listed (HealthBehaviors, Clinical Care, Social & Economic Factors, and Physical Environment). • Summarize in one or two sentences identify the time period covered, and what the indicatormeans.• Compare data for this indicator in your county with comparable data for this indicator for yourstate overall.• Is your county worse or better off than most other counties within your state? Explainyour basis for this comparison. Substantiate your assessment by citing the relevantquantitative data.• Assess the quality of the data for this indicator for your county. Do you think it may bemore or less reliable than data for other counties in your state? How do you know?• How important is this measure in the overall health rankings for your county? Do youthink that’s appropriate, or would you weight it differently? If so, why? 6. Click on the Take Action to Improve Health link at the top of the home page. Then click on “ActionCenter”, “What Works for Health” and “Who to Work With”. Many of these link out to externalwebsites with information on community organizing or developing and evaluating public healthinterventions.• skim the materials available and write a short paragraph, describing the resourcesavailable on the web.• In one or two sentences, explain to your audience how these web resources may beuseful in developing programs that could improve public health, at least with respectto the indicators you have explored in response to questions 3, 4, or 5 of this exercise.7. For any one of the health outcomes or health factors you have described, give one specific idea for anaction that a community leader, elected official, or health professional might do to improve the healthof your selected county.
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