County Health Rankings

A national report issued this week ranks all counties in the county for health issues. This is a joint project of the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At www.countyhealthrankings.org you can find detailed information arranged state by state and county by county on a variety of heatlh related issues. By clicking on an individual county, you can then see how that community scored on a number of factors.

There are two primary categories: Health Factors and Health Outcomes. A number of different individual health factors shape a community’s health outcomes. The County Health Rankings model includes four types of health factors: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic, and the physical environment. The site then compares two types of health outcomes to represent how healthy each county is: how long people live (mortality) and how healthy people feel (morbidity).

Tennessee 2010 Census Data

The US Census Bureau released Tennessee data this week. You can access the data through this link. A map showing the percentage of population change by county is available here.

Now that the data is available, counties will begin working through the redistricting process over the coming months.

Governor Haslam's Budget Available on the Internet

UPDATED

The entire budget document is available on the Internet as well as video of the speech, the text of the speech, a fact sheet and a 30 slide overview presentation which was used to present the budget to the Senate and House finance committees.

These can all be accessed through http://tn.gov/stateofthestate/media/

U.S. County Population Estimates

The Census Bureau today released a downloadable file with county population estimates from April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2010. These estimates are neither 2010 Census counts nor are they based on the 2010 Census. Once official 2010 Census counts have been released for counties in all states, the Census Bureau will release a comparison of April 1, 2010, census counts and April 1, 2010 population estimates.

The data can be accessed here.