Locate your city or county profile on the County Health Rankings website, answer the following prompts and questions for your essay assignment. The goal is to describe your community, the place where you live, based on the determinants of health. Use the four sections below to outline your essay.
1) Demographics – Describe your city or county in terms of the composition of the population.
2) Health Outcomes – How does the premature death rate compare to the state and US? Describe the quality of life in your city or county. What measures are surprising or concerning to you? What measures indicate that your city or county is doing well? Do the numbers match what you believe and experience about your city or county’s quality of life? Explain your perspective of the rankings for Length of Life and Quality of Life.
3) Health Factors – Review the measures under each subsection, i.e., Health Behaviors, Clinical Care, Social and Economic, Physical Environment. Describe at least three (3) measures that your city or county is doing well or is better than the state. Share and explain at least three (3) measures where your city or county is performing poorly and public health should take action.
4) Summary – Close your essay with a summary statement about the overall snapshot of your city or county in regards to the determinants of health.
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