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The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods
BACKGROUND Annually since 2010, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have produced the County Health Rankings-a "population health checkup" for the nation's over 3,000 counties. The purpose of this paper is to review the background and rationale for the Rankings, explain in detail the methods we use to create the health rankings in each ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Youth Development
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2325-4017,2325-4009
DOI: 10.5195/jyd.2018.649