National Association of Counties

Health

Health
County News

Health department workforce has shrunk 23 percent since 2008

Leaders of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) representing the nation’s nearly 3,000 local health departments recently met with their representatives on Capitol Hill to educate them on the most pressing public health issues affecting their communities.  Here, Adriane Casalotti, NACCHO’s chief of Government and

Sorry, there are no results with the selected filters applied.

{{ c.totalCount }} result{{ c.totalCount != 1 ? 's' : ''}} returned{{ c.searchKeys ? " for \"" + c.searchKeys + "\"" : "" }}, filtered by: {{ filter.name }}: {{ filter.val + ($index < (c.filtersApplied.length-1) ? ", " : "") }}

View more

Loading...

Committees & Signature Projects

  • Health
    Basic page

    Health Steering Committee

    All matters pertaining to public health and healthy communities, including disease and injury prevention and health promotion, health disparities reduction, financing delivering health care.
  • Health
    Basic page

    County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute released the ninth annual County Health Rankings​ on March 14, 2018. The County Health Rankings show us where we live matters to our health and provides counties with an annual check-up of their health.
  • Health
    Basic page

    Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge

    The challenge aims to improve measurable health outcomes and promote health, wellness, equity and social interaction through practical, evidence-based strategies and cross-sector collaboration.
  • Health
    Basic page

    Healthy Counties Initiative

    Healthy Counties focuses on enhancing: public-private partnerships in local health delivery, acccess to, and coordination of, care for vulnerable populations in the community and community public health and behavioral health programs.
See All Projects

Featured Experts

Events

See all Events

NACo’s Healthy Counties Initiative aims to enhance public/private part­nerships in local health del​​ivery, improve individual and community health, and assist counties to effectively implement federal health reform.

The County Health Rankings show us where we live matters to our health and provides counties with an annual check-up of their health. The Rankings provide local-level data that shows how people from one county to another rank on a range of factors that determine health to ensure that every community is a healthy place to live, learn, work and play.

The Stepping Up Initiative, a joint intiative between NACo, the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, helps advance counties’ efforts to reduce the number of adults with mental and co-occurring substance use disorders in jails.