Conducting a Community Needs Assessment Handouts

EXAMPLE: RATE OF LOWER-
EXTREMITY AMPUTATION
EXAMPLE: RATE OF LOWER-
EXTREMITY AMPUTATION
CORE HEALTH INDICATORS:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Hypertension Hospital Admission Rate
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr005.pdf (discharge survey
2006)
• State Hospital “Report Cards”
Example: Colorado http://goo.gl/1opY
Congestive Heart Failure Hospital Admission Rate
• http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1265665152970DS-
3241%20HeartStrokeUpdate_2010.pdf
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhds/nhds071stlisteddiagnoses.pdf
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr005.pdf (discharge survey
2006)
Angina without Procedure Hospital Admission Rate
• http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1265665152970DS-
3241%20HeartStrokeUpdate_2010.pdf
Mortality from Diseases of the Heart
• http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1265665152970DS-
3241%20HeartStrokeUpdate_2010.pdf
Proportion of Adults Reporting Diagnosis of High Blood
Pressure
CORE HEALTH INDICATORS:
CANCER
Cancer Screening – % of women 18 and older with No
Pap test in the last 3 years
• http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications
/st173/stat173.pdf (national data)
• http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/risk/index.php (state
data for those who had a Pap in the last 3 years)
Cancer Screening - % of women 40 and older with No
Mammogram in the past 3 years
• http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/risk/index.php (state
data of those who had mammogram in the past 2 years)
Cancer Screening - % of adults 50 and older with No
Fecal Occult Blood Test Within the past 2 years
• http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/risk/index.php (home
blood stool test used in the past 2 years)
CORE HEALTH INDICATORS:
PRENATAL/PERINATAL HEALTH
Low Birth Weight Rate (5 year average)
• http://www.statehealthfacts.org/children.jsp
Infant Mortality Rate (5 year average)
• http://www.statehealthfacts.org/children.jsp
• http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/HGDWReports/Community_Fact_Shee
t.aspx (County-level birth and infant deaths)
Births to Teenage Mothers (ages 15-19; % of all births)
• http://www.statehealthfacts.org/children.jsp
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_24.pdf (Stat
Late entry into prenatal care
• http://www.statehealthfacts.org/children.jsp
• http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cPONDER/ (from dropdown box, select
“prenatal care initiation”)
Cigarette use during pregnancy
• http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cPONDER/ (from dropdown box, select
“tobacco use”)
CORE HEALTH INDICATORS: CHILD
HEALTH
Pediatric Asthma Hospital Admission Rate
• Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview
Survey, 2008 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_244.pdf
(Ever told have asthma, still have asthma (national/region)
Percent of Children not tested for elevated blood lead blood levels by 30
months
• http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/data/state.htm (most states, 2006-2008)
• http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/data/national.htm (national data for most
states 1997-2007)
Percent of children not receiving recommended immunizations
• Kaiser Family State Health Facts:
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/index.jsp (Immunizations children age
19-35 months)
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus09.pdf#082 (National data on
vaccination coverage 19-35 months)
National Health Statistics Reports, Number 5, July 30,2008 (Table 2)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_244.pdf
• Under 15 years , 15-44 years (national)
Community Fact Sheets –
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/HGDWReports/Community_Fact_Sheet.aspx
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• County-level birth and infant deaths
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