2021 ESG Report Healthy Community Ranking the healthiest communities In June 2021, the Aetna Foundation released the data, as well as editorial explorations of equity and fourth annual Healthiest Communities rankings in mental health — key components that can shape collaboration with U.S. News & World Report. The overall health and well-being. Over the past year and rankings and accompanying analysis are based on an a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the evaluation of nearly 3,000 communities nationwide issues we knew existed within the health care system, across 84 health and health-related metrics in 10 including the interdependence between the health of categories — from Education and Population Health to our communities and our personal health. Based on a Infrastructure and Environment. The project serves as U.S. News analysis, counties that performed well in the a tool to inform residents, community health leaders Healthiest Communities rankings have slightly lower and elected officials about policies and best practices COVID-19 case rates than average. for better health outcomes by assessing which communities offer their citizens the greatest opportunity The full rankings and in-depth analysis of the findings to live a productive, healthy life. This year’s rankings can be found on the U.S. News website. were accompanied by tools highlighting county- level COVID-19 vaccine rates and other pandemic 51