. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 12.

Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Jan;37(1):22–29. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1125

EXHIBIT 2.

Sample characteristics of counties in 2002–06, before the implementation of health improvement programs, by implementation status

Characteristic	Non-implementing counties (n = 695)	Implementing counties (n = 269)
Population age range (years)
0–19	27.91%	27.63%
20–39	27.50	28.66^***
40–64	32.69	32.01^***
65 and older	11.90	11.69

Population living in poverty	10.96%	13.34%^***

Unemployment rate	4.81	5.62^***

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of selected community health improvement program data and county-level Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) data for 2002–06. NOTES Counties with health improvement programs were not included in this analysis if there were fewer than 500 respondents in the BRFSS SMART data. Means were compared using unpooled t-tests of means.

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