The County Health Rankings: Rationale and methods

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Remington, Patrick L ^a   Catlin, Bridget B ^a   Gennuso, Keith P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health rankings; Population health; Public health surveillance

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH SURVEY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COUNTY HEALTH RANKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84928570928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-015-0044-2     Document Type: Article

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