Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
Community Health Needs Assessment 2012 - Saint Joseph Hospital
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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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