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Since the beginning of 2020, the public health community has been working overtime to track, analyze and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic on a day-by-day basis. While that crucial work continues, the America’s Health Rankings 2021 Annual Report marks the beginning of a new phase; we now can begin to analyze and understand the bigger picture of COVID-19, the impact of this public health emergency on the health of the nation overall and where we go from here.

With the release of the 5th edition of the Health of Women and Children Report, America’s Health Rankings is excited to offer a toolkit of customizable resources to help users share data-driven insights.

With the release of the inaugural Health Disparities Report, America’s Health Rankings is excited to offer a toolkit of customizable resources to help users share data-driven insights into the depth, breadth and persistence of health disparities in the U.S. with colleagues and communities.

Improving health disparities and implementing programs that address the root causes of health challenges starts with understanding where those disparities exist — and taking a holistic view of health.

Addressing health disparities has been an important focus of my life and throughout my career. From my early family medicine practice in Appalachia, to working in inner-city hospitals, to my time in academia, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and now at the CDC Foundation, focusing on and managing health disparities has been front and center to my work.

With the release of the 2021 Senior Report, America’s Health Rankings is excited to offer a toolkit of new, customizable resources to help users share important trends and highlights with colleagues and communities. Download the toolkit here.

Tribal communities like mine, the Spirit Lake Dakota reservation in North Dakota, have always been communal in nature. Caring for the health of individuals and the community is ingrained, but historical traumas have led to a range of public health challenges to this day.

Our nation is in a period of reckoning. Now, more than ever before, people across the country recognize that health disparities are harming many communities and holding our nation back from achieving optimal health. At March of Dimes, we seek to achieve birth equity by helping all moms and babies have the opportunity to attain good health and a safe birth. To do that, we must address the wide disparities we see.

The United Health Foundation is pleased to provide the America’s Health Rankings Health of Women and Children Data 2020 Update. America’s Health Rankings’ purpose is to inform and drive action to build healthier communities by offering credible, trusted data – at the local, state or national level – for improving health and health care.