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When data is accessible. it

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really is vintage to everyone.

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You don't know what you don't know.

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Everything matters for health.

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We're a very diverse population.

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You need to use a data driven

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approach.

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Good data

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with excellent stories equals

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power.

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Power equals change.

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Data.

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One of the reasons that my team and

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I will turn to America's health

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rankings for some of our work is

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because the data is well documented.

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It's easy to download.

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It's verifiable.

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It's America's data.

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It's health defined broadly by

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the W.H.O.. not just the absence of

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disease. but how are we doing it?

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Our health. our socioeconomic

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health. our financial health. our

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behavioral health.

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And then it's a ranking.

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So it ranks the states and

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relativity to one another.

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Analyzing and putting together this

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much data in one place takes

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so much specialized training and so

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much effort.

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So for someone to

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come across and see all of this

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together for free is huge.

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For the kind of work I do where I'm

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frequently advising state

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policymakers or national

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policymakers.

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It's it's a tremendous

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resource.

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I had the opportunity to go before

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our legislature in our state. and

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this was in a very lean year.

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and we were successful in getting

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additional funding.

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I gave them the reason to say yes.

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because then they had the data.

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The truth is. resources are always

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finite and one is always asking

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the question. Where can we be most

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effective?

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And. you know. I have used America's

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health rankings. as I know and

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others. to help identify places

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where resources we

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know might be affected.

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Health is the foundation of

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everything. So if the foundation of

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your house. when it's cracked.

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everything else is in jeopardy.

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What America's health rankings gives

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us is the landscape of those

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cracks in our foundation. where they

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are. how bad they are. and

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then what we need to do to fix them.

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And I think this is important

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because it gives folks an

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opportunity to see areas

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of success as well as areas where

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there are opportunities for

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improvement.

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I love America's health rankings.

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I came to know it when I

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led the Department of Health for the

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State of North Dakota.

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What makes America's health rankings

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different from other data sets is

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that it's a long tenure

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and track record.

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The health rankings does a good job

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of understanding. The health is

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about much more than just medical

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care.

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And I think it gives you a

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perspective of what's really going

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on in the community versus someone's

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belief on what's going on in

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the community.

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This data is great for students

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because it's accessible.

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It's easy for them to understand.

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But they also know that it's

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reliable. It's America's Health

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rankings dot org and it's

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interactive.

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So you can see with every

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one of these states. with every one

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of these measures. we even color

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coded for you the magnitude of.

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Is this measure pulling your state

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up in the rank or is it holding it

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back?

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Data is relatively new.

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It's timely and is

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accurate.

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But it's only valuable if people

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take it and use it.