Community Health Indicators
4/6/2016
Community Health Indicators
1. Demographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics
Examples:
- Population by Age and Gender
- Dependency Indicators
- Race/Ethnicity Distribution
- Median Age for Population
- Population 25+ Who Are Non-High School Graduates
- High School Drop-Outs
- Population in Poverty
- Population Receiving Food Stamps
- Rural Population
- Unemployed
- Population Enrolled in Medicaid
- Single Parent Household
- Per Capita Personal Income
2. General Health and Access to Care Indicators
Examples:
- Mortality Rates
- Leading Causes of Mortality, ICD-9
- Leading Causes of Mortality, ICD-10
- Life Expectancy at Birth
- Excess Non-White Deaths
- Population Uninsured
- Cause-Specific Years of Potential Life Lost, ICD-9
- Cause-Specific Years of Potential Life Lost, ICD-10
- Percent Population No Medical Physical in Past 2 Years
- Medicaid Enrollees to Medicaid Physician Vendors Ratio
- Advanced Life Support Emergency Care Vehicles
- Population Residing in Primary Care HPSA
- Population with Optimally Fluoridated Water
3. Maternal and Child Health Indicators
Examples:
- Live Births
- Infant Mortality Rate
- Low Birth Weight
- Mothers Who Smoke During Pregnancy
- Mothers Who Drink During Pregnancy
- Kessner Index of Prenatal Care
- Mothers Begin Prenatal in 1st Trimester
- Infants Positive for Cocaine
- Leading Causes of Mortality (Ages 1-4), ICD-9
- Leading Causes of Mortality (Ages 1-4), ICD-10
- WIC: Low Weight for Height
- Teen Birth Rate
- Percent Births to Teens
- Founded Child Abuse/Neglect Rate
- Congenital Anomalies
- Medicaid Deliveries
- IDPA-Eligible Children Receiving EPSDT
- Kotelchuck Index of Prenatal Care Utilization
- Method of Delivery
4. Chronic Disease Indicators
Examples:
- Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Coronary Heart Disease Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Cerebrovascular Disease Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Cerebrovascular Diseases Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Breast Cancer (female) Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Breast Cancer (female) Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Lung Cancer Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Lung Cancer Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Colorectal Cancer Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Colorectal Cancer Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Cervical Cancer (female) Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Cervical Cancer (female) Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Prostate Cancer (male) Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Prostate Cancer (male) Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Childhood Cancer (under age 15) Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Childhood Cancer (under age 15) Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Alcohol Dependence Syndrome Hospitalization Rates
- Total Psychoses Hospitalization Rates
- Diabetes Hospitalization Rates
- Overweight, Smokers, Sedentary Lifestyles
- Breast Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
- Colorectal Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
- Cervical Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
- Lung Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
- Prostate Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
- Percent Diagnosed in situ Breast Cancer (female)
- Percent Diagnosed at Local Stage Colorectal Cancer
- Percent Diagnosed at Local Stage Prostate Cancer
- Percent Diagnosed at Late Stage Cervical Cancer
- Childhood Cancer Age-adjusted Incidence Rate
5. Infectious Disease Indicators
Examples:
- Syphilis Incidence Rates
- Gonorrhea Incidence Rates
- Chlamydia Incidence Rates
- Incidence Rates
- HIV Infection Incidence Rates
- Basic Series Vaccinations
- Haemophilus Meningitis (Ages 0-2 and 0-4)
- Foodborne Pathogens Infection Rates
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases
- Hepatitis B Incidence Rates
- Tuberculosis Incidence Rates
6. Environmental, Occupational, and Injury Control Indicators
Examples:
- Environmental Indicators
- Toxic Agents Released into Air, Water, Soil
- Motor Vehicle Accidents Mortality Rates, ICD-9
- Motor Vehicle Accidents Mortality Rates, ICD-10
- Homicide Rates, ICD-9
- Homicide Rates, ICD-10
- Suicide Rates, ICD-9
- Suicide Rates, ICD-10
- Non-Fatal Head/Spinal Cord, Hip Injury Hospitalization Rates
- Non-Fatal Hip Fracture Hospitalization Rates (Ages 65 and Up)
- Non-Fatal Head Injury Hospitalization Rates
- Non-Fatal Spinal Cord Injury Hospitalization Rates
- Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Mortality Rates
- Occupational Diseases/Injuries
- Blood Lead Levels in Children
- Assault Rates
7. Sentinel Events
Examples:
- Hospitalization for Dehydration (Infants, ages 0-1)
- Hospitalization for Rheumatic Fever (Children, ages 1-17)
- Hospitalization for Asthma (Children, ages 1-14)
- Number of Cases of Measles, Mumps, Polio, and Tetanus (ages 1-17)
- Number of Cases of Tuberculosis (Adults, 18 and older)
- Hospitalization for Uncontrolled Hypertension in Adults
- Females late cervical cancer and in situ breast cancer (5-year average age-adjusted rate and 5-year number)