. How does your county rank on various health-related metrics compared to your state? Identify and explain factors that may contribute to its ranking.

Find the county where you grew up at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Rankings website Links to an external site.. How does your county rank on various health-related metrics  compared to your state? Identify and explain factors that may contribute to its ranking. 

2. Find the relevant data and explore how health may vary for counties and among racial/ethnic groups within your state. Choose one measure of comparison (e.g. children living in poverty). Follow the following guidelines to structure your response to the following questions:

   Only check the box for state-level data and overall national data and ask:

          How does your state compare to the nation?

          How do the patterns differ by race or ethnicity?

   Add your state’s county-level data and ask:

          How big is the range among counties, overall?

          How do the patterns differ by race or ethnicity?

          How do the county values compare to the state values?

3. Now go to the COVID-19 atlas Links to an external site.. Make sure the “County” feature is selected under ‘Geography’ in the left-hand menu. How has your county fared in the COVID-19 pandemic (including vaccination efforts) compared to the rest of your state? For additional nationwide context, feel free to consult the Kaiser tool on vaccine acceptance and messaging Links to an external site..

4.  propose a hypothesis explaining the differences you saw in responses to questions 1-3 (it’s OK to focus on just one, narrow aspect of those differences) and a study that could be designed to test this hypothesis. 

https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ 

https://theuscovidatlas.org/map