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<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Needs</strong> <strong>Assessment</strong> 2013<br />

<strong>Health</strong> problems should be examined in terms of morbidity as well as mortality. Morbidity is defined as<br />

the incidence of illness or injury and mortality is defined as the incidence of death. However, the law does<br />

not require reporting the incidence of a particular disease, except when the public health is potentially<br />

endangered.<br />

Due to limited morbidity data, this health assessment relies heavily on death and death rate statistics for<br />

leading causes in death. Such information provides useful indicators of health status trends and permits an<br />

assessment of the impact of changes in health services on a resident population during an established<br />

period of time. <strong>Community</strong> attention and health care resources may then be directed to those areas of<br />

greatest impact and concern.<br />

Leading Causes of Death<br />

Exhibit 10<br />

<strong>Saint</strong> <strong>Joseph</strong> Berea CHNA<br />

Leading Causes of Death in Madison County,<br />

Kentucky and the US, 2007<br />

Rate per 100,000 Total Population<br />

Leading Causes of death<br />

Madison<br />

Co. Kentucky US<br />

250<br />

200<br />

Cancer 208.7 211.1 178.4<br />

150<br />

Heart Disease 211.8 218.2 190.9<br />

100<br />

Stroke 58.3 47.2 42.2<br />

Chronic Lower Respiratory<br />

Disease 56.8 58.6 40.8<br />

Unintentional Injuries 37.6 51.8 40<br />

50<br />

0<br />

Cancer<br />

Heart<br />

Disease<br />

Stroke<br />

Chronic<br />

Low er<br />

Respiratory<br />

Disease<br />

Unintentional<br />

Injuries<br />

Source: 2011 MCCHIP<br />

Madison Co. Kentucky US<br />

According to the 2011 Kentucky <strong>Health</strong> Facts, the leading causes of cancer in Madison County were lung,<br />

colorectal, breast and prostrate. Madison County ranks higher than the national benchmark for all except<br />

unintentional injuries and lower than Kentucky benchmark for all except deaths due to strokes. Kentucky,<br />

as a whole, ranks higher than the US benchmark in leading causes of death.<br />

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