County Health Rankings

Author

Manjul Balayar

Published

July 11, 2024

Brief Description

County Health Rankings data provides insights into the health outcomes and factors influencing health within counties across the United States. It includes measures related to natural and built environments, such as air and water quality, child care, and access to healthy foods.

Source: County Health Rankings

Measures

Initially, each measure in the dataset included its raw value along with the high and low values of its confidence interval. However, we chose to use only the raw values for our final dataset. Additionally, while the child care and food environment index measures were not used in our county health rankings natural dataset, they were incorporated into our built capital analysis.

  1. Fair_Health_rawvalue
  2. Fair_Health_cilow
  3. Fair_Health_cihigh
  4. Particulate_Matter_rawvalue
  5. Particulate_Matter_cilow
  6. Particulate_Matter_cihigh
  7. Drinking_Water_Violations_rawvalue
  8. Drinking_Water_Violations_cilow
  9. Drinking_Water_Violations_cihigh
  10. Child_Care_Centers_rawvalue
  11. Child_Care_Centers_cilow
  12. Child_Care_Centers_cihigh
  13. Food_Environment_Index_rawvalue
  14. Food_Environment_Index_cilow
  15. Food_Environment_Index_cihigh

Final Measures for Natural

  1. Particulate_Matter: Particulate matter (PM) encompasses microscopic particles suspended in the air, such as dust, dirt, soot, smoke, and liquid droplets.
  2. Drinking_Water_Violations: Water Pollution

Final Measures for Built

  1. Food Enviroment Index: Limited Access to Healthy Foods estimates the percentage of the population that is low income and does not live close to a grocery store. (according to, County Health Rankings)