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Public Health
Indicators
Public health
indicators provide a snapshot of health status, health behavior,
and public health system performance at the local level based on
35 indicators. The indicators measure six key aspects of public
health:
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Community Context (1 indicator)
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Communicable Disease (4 indicators)
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Prevention and Health Promotion (9 indicators)
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Environmental Health (3 indicators)
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Maternal and Child Health (10 indicators)
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Access to Care (8 indicators)
New for this update cycle
are four additional indicators:
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Falls in
Older Adults
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Poverty
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Air
Quality
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Teen Sad
or Hopeless
Local health
jurisdictions are using local public health indicator data to
identify or confirm health issues; develop action plans and evaluate
progress; and for community education. Most jurisdictions are interested
in how their agency compares to the state as a whole, and many share their
local boards of health and community groups.
The database is also
designed to work in conjunction with
the
Washington’s Standards for Public
Health, and the
Public Health Activities and Services -
both measurements of statewide system capacity. Together, the
indicators reveal how healthy we are and the performance standards
examine the process that makes us so.
Public Health Indicators Workgroup
The Public
Health Indicators Workgroup provides oversight to the revisions
of the standards, the standards review processes and
quality
improvement efforts.
Find out
more about the workgroup...
Key
Products
2011 Local Public Health Indicators Update
Highlights
Local Public Health Indicators
Additional
public health indicators
materials are available at the
Resource Catalog |
