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Health Indicators
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DataHaven Indicators
DataHaven hosts a "Data by Topic" page on the issue of Health, which you may refer to at http://www.ctdatahaven.org/dbt/dbt.php?topic=5. As we are developing a new system for visualizing this information, not all of our data sets have been uploaded here. Please contact us directly if you can't find what you need.
For the most recent general socioeconomic profile data on Connecticut towns and counties, please visit our page on Demographics. We have links there to the most recent profiles published by the Census Bureau.
Other Health Data Resources
National, State and Regional Level
1. Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity - RWJF. http://www.rwjf.org/childhoodobesity/product.jsp?id=47908 . This document contains policy priorities identified by the Institute of Medicine.
2. Chronic Disease at a Glance - CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/AAG/chronic.htm . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
3. Annie E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center: Tracking the status of children's health and education: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
4. County Health Rankings: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ The County Health Rankings are a key component of the Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) project. MATCH is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The web site provides access to the 50 state reports, ranking each county within the 50 states according to its health outcomes and the multiple health factors that determine a county’s health. Each county receives a summary rank for its health outcomes and health factors and also for the four different types of health factors: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment. Each county can also drill down to see specific county-level data (as well as state benchmarks) for the measures upon which the rankings are based.
5. CT Department of Public Health: Vital Statistics Reports http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3132&q=394598&dphNav_GID=1601&dphPNavCtr=|#46987 The Office of Vital Records at the Connecticut Department of Public Health maintains a statewide registry of births, marriages, civil unions, deaths and fetal deaths which have occurred in CT or to CT residents. Vital Records databases are analyzed annually to create statistical reports, known as Registration Reports, for births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces.
6. U.S. City Wellbeing Tracking (Gallup, 2011) http://www.gallup.com/poll/145913/City-Wellbeing-Tracking.aspx Explore results by U.S. metropolitan area for overall wellbeing, diabetes, obesity, frequent exercise, frequent produce consumption, city optimism, and the uninsured based on Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index data from 2010, 2009, and 2008.
7. National Vital Statistics Reports (National Center for Health Statistics, CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm Tables of vital statistics by state and population groups, including preliminary data on births.
8. Report: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight for Connecticut (CTDPH Health Disparities Workgroup, 2008) http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/family_health/health_disparities_in_lbw_final_report_10_1_08.pdf Report on the infant health disparity between minority groups and non-Hispanic Whites. Recommends improved services plus development of measures for addressing psychosocial factors in women’s lives.
9. CT Department of Public Health: Connecticut Health Disparities Report (2009) http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/view.asp?a=3132&q=433794 Detailed data compendium that describes health disparities within the State.
Specific to Connecticut Cities and Towns
1. Health Equity Alliance - New Haven Health Department "Health Equity Alliance" site and resource database, hosted the Community Knowledge Center.
More Information
Our main Knowledge Center page about health in Connecticut may be found here.
