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Susan Zelt, MBA, MPH, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Airport Rd. CB# 7590 UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919-966-5541, zelt@email.unc.edu and Thomas Ricketts, PhD, MPH, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina, 725 Airport Road, Campus Box 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590.

The State Health Rankings (SHR) have stimulated news stories and raised awareness of health issues and population health status at the state level. However, little is known of how these or other state rankings effect policy change. This session will describe a potential conceptual framework to help understand how the rankings can translate perceptions into policy change. The framework points to problems in the logical connections between population health and personal decisions and the creation of policy options.

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the logic of the State Health Rankings
• Understand the potential gaps in the logic of moving from perception to action
• Provide a framework to decide how to use the State Health Rankings

Related Web page: www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2003

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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