Go to Explore Health Rankings at https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
Enter Taunton High Schools Zip code of 02780
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Go back to the home button and type in Nantucket, MA. How healthy is Nantucket?
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Look at the county snapshot (the big table). Identify two measures where Nantucket seems to be performing well.
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Scroll down the page to National Data Sources. How many sources are included?
Scroll back up to the State-Specific Data Sources. Click on Massachusetts. Click on Resources
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How many sources provide data broken down by demographics (age, sex, race/ethnicity?)
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How many sources provide data for sub-county geographic units (ex. cities, zip codes or school districts)?
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What is one piece of data you can learn about on this website?
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How healthy is your county in Massachusetts?
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Is the county's health outcome and factor what you expected? Explain.
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Look at the county snapshot (the big table). Identify two measures where Bristol county seems to be performing well.
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Look at the county snapshot (the big table). Identify two measures where Bristol county has room to improve.
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Notice that different types of quantitative data are represented in the table. State a measure that uses percentage.
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Notice that different types of quantitative data are represented in the table. State a measure that uses ratio.
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Notice that different types of quantitative data are represented in the table. State a measure that uses means.
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Scroll to Children in Poverty under Social and Economic Factors.
What percentage of children live in poverty in Bristol County?
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If you click on Children in poverty you will be able to see the dat broken down by race/ethnicity. How does the Children in Poverty vary by race/ethnicity?
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Click on the methods and limitations. What is the data source for child poverty?
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What questions does your snapshot raise for you about what's impacting your community?
What type of data uses numbers and can answer questions like how much?
A. mean
B. quantitative
C. range
D. qualitative
What type of data includes descriptions and viewpoints?
A. mean
B. quantitative
C. range
D. qualitative
Click on the words that describe types of quantitative data.
Explanations
Counts
Viewpoints
Percentages
Rates
Descriptions
Click on the words that describe types of qualitative data.
Explanations
Counts
Viewpoints
Percentages
Rates
Descriptions
What type of data is gathered by someone else and commonly found through national agencies?
A. Existing (secondary) data
B. median data
C. Your own data (primary)
D. observational data
What type of data is collected by you the researcher?
A. Existing (secondary) data
B. median data
C. Primary data
D. national data
What method uses small groups to gather information?
A. key informant interviews
B. community forums
C. direct observation
D. focus groups
What method uses a traditional approach to gathering community input through written, telephone, web based or in person surveys.
A. key informant interviews
B. community surveys
C. direct observation
D. focus groups
What method uses an open discussion among a large group of participants
