Monday, March 16, 2015

Interesting Web Site: Health Indicators By County

The CDC has a web site that provides a comparison of CDC health indicators between your county and a "peer group" of counties similar (by their standards) to your county.  It can be informative, with a grain of salt (but not too much; too much salt is unhealthy.).  The web site URL is http://www.cdc.gov/communityhealth  Note that when I entered that into the address bar, my browser search or maybe the website itself rerouted me to http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/.  At that point it is difficult to find the right link on the page.   So, instead, I did a search on CHSI:

Community Health Status Indicators - CHSI

That got me to the right web page.  

I picked a county at random to show what a comparison looks like:


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