Open AccessImproving the Environmental Quality Component of the County Health Rankings Model
Author(s) -
Michael Hendryx,
Melissa M. Ahern,
Keith J. Zullig
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2012.301016
Subject(s) - environmental health , environmental quality , public health , quality (philosophy) , measure (data warehouse) , regression analysis , gerontology , medicine , psychology , statistics , computer science , political science , mathematics , philosophy , nursing , epistemology , law , database
We examined the association between environmental quality measures and health outcomes by using the County Health Rankings data, and tested whether a revised environmental quality measure for 1 state could improve the models.