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Healthy Northeast Ohio Data Website Enhanced With New Health Indicators, User Guide
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Back to all News ReleasesSeptember 29, 2020 Healthy Northeast Ohio Data Website Enhanced With New Health Indicators, User Guide
Healthy Northeast Ohio, the online resource for population health data across five counties in the region, has been updated to include 21 new health indicators drawn from the
2019 Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment. The indicators are presented in a
new dashboard and users can view trends over time as well as parse the data by characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity.
New health indicators include:
- Consumption of fruits and vegetables.
- Diagnoses such as high blood pressure and pre- or borderline diabetes.
- Health events such as stroke and heart attack.
- Mental health factors, including feelings of sadness or hopelessness.
- Recreational drug use, use of heroin/fentanyl and unintentional opioid-related death rate.
- Presence of firearms and gun-related deaths.
- Other factors impacting health, such health insurance status and living in a food desert.
Data Highlights
According to the newly added data, from 2012 to 2019 the percent of adults in Cuyahoga County who used heroin or fentanyl decreased by 0.5% to 0.3%; adults who used recreational drugs increased 9.9% to 16.9%; and adults who misused prescription drugs decreased 9.3% to 7.2%.
Other factors moving in the right direction include heart disease and gun-related deaths while factors that worsened include consumption of fruits and vegetables and diagnosis of pre- or borderline diabetes. Also important to note is that mental health factors worsened from 2012 to 2019 in Cuyahoga County, with an increase in suicide attempts and feelings of sadness or hopelessness.
User Guide
To help visitors to the website make the most of its capabilities, a
new user guide has been published that walks site users through each section of the website with screenshots and has step-by-step instructions for searching the data, building dashboards and more.
MORE: For more on the Healthy Northeast Ohio website, contact us.
TWEETABLE: Healthy Northeast Ohio has been updated to include 21 health indicators from the Cuyahoga County Community Health Needs Assessment.