Category: Population Health
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Ranking Georgia’s counties on key economic, education, and population health metrics
As some TIGC readers know, I’ve been concentrating lately on stirring my research into some kind of semi-coherent book form. As part of that process, I’ve been updating a lot of data, and fairly regularly I run across buckets of numbers that are worth a quick post. This is one of those times. Over the…
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An overdue update on Georgia’s premature death performance
My 15-year trip down this Trouble in God’s Country rabbit hole started as the result of the almost accidental discovery of a massive gap in population health between Georgia’s most and least healthy counties. I was conducting some research for a public health-related campaign my public relations firm was managing, and I was looking specifically…