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August 2000
Health Status Information of All US Counties on Web Officials and residents in 3,082 U.S. counties can now access a web-based snapshot of their county's health status. Causes of deaths, infectious diseases, teen mothers, and a host of other indicators from existing national data sets can be found on the Web at http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov. This unique source of data is found in the Community Health Status Indicators Reports (CHSI) funded by US Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and produced in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the Public Health Foundation (PHF). The data covers the period from 1988 to 1998. The reports use existing national data or estimates that are available on all U.S. counties. Each county's report has demographic information with some 20 to 50 "peer" counties with similar population size, density, age distribution and poverty levels. For some indicators, estimates are derived from national data sources and adjusted to reflect the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of individual counties and should be interpreted with caution. "This is a major effort that turns complex data into potentially useful information for assisting communities in their efforts to improve the public's health," said Ron Bialek, president of the PHF, a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving healthy communities through applied research, training and technical assistance. Counties can measure themselves against their peer counties and all US counties in relation to life expectancy, causes of death, the percent of adults who report fair or poor health, and the average number of unhealthy days reported for a month. And they can see how their county compares to peer counties' rates of infectious diseases such as hepatitis and measles. Birth outcomes, including low birth weight babies, unmarried mothers, and prenatal care, as well as death data, including breast cancer, homicide and heart disease can be compared with peer counties, the nation and federal Healthy People 2010 targets. Links: US Dept. of Health and Human Services Community Health Status Indicators Project
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