Making Wisconsin the Healthiest State

Research Area: Health policy, Public health systems
Keywords: Public health surveillance, Public health communication, Population health, Health disparities, Community health assessment

Principall Investigators: David Kindig and Patrick Remington

Under the leadership of David Kindig and Patrick Remington, the objective of this project is to identify the most effective investments for and to monitor Wisconsin's progress towards becoming the nation's healthiest state with less health disparity. This is a research and translation effort funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Program to a) assess Wisconsin's population health in a way that can be periodically compared with the population health of other US states (using existing secondary data) and b) develop a database of evidence of effectiveness of policies and programs to improve health and/or reduce health disparity.
More information is available at http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/uwphi/pha/healthiestState.htm