New maps and data now are available for the Hospitals with Cardiac Rehabilitation Units indicator. Data have been updated to reflect hospitals in 2019, replacing data for 2018.

New maps and dat for the Park Access indicator are not available! This updated dataset reports the number and percentage of people within a buffer of ½ mile radius of a park at the census tract level. Data were obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network (EPHTN). Park boundaries used in the CDC analysis are from Esri StreetMap Premium/HERE, 2016, and the 2015 PAD-US.

Indicators displaying the percentage of population with low food access and population living in food deserts have been updated. The updated data were released in April, 2021 and reflect conditions on the ground in the year 2019. This update replaces previous indicator data reflecting conditions 2015.

The National Risk Index (NRI) is an score which helps identify communities most at-risk for natural hazards. The NRI leverages available source data for 18 natural hazards, social vulnerability, and community resilience to develop a baseline relative risk measurement for each United Statescounty and Census tract. View the National Risk Index for your report area by running an assessment today!

New data provided by the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES). Affected indicators:

Physical Environment

• Park Access

. Maps now available at the 2010 census tract level.

Data for the 2019 Area Deprivation Index (ADI) are now available! The ADI is a ranking of neighborhoods by socioeconomic status disadvantage in a region of interest (e.g. at the state or national level). It includes factors for the theoretical domains of income, education, employment, and housing quality. It can be used to inform health delivery and policy, especially for the most disadvantaged neighborhood groups.

Data for survey years 2010-2011 acquired from OSHPD (replacing data for survey year 2010 alone). Improved data processing techniques now generate crude and age-adjusted discharge rates per 10,000 population for select patient conditions. Indicator tables continue to report condition-specific discharge events as a percentage of total patient discharges by age, gender, race, and ethnicity groupings. Affected Indicators:

Clinical Care

• Preventable Hospital Events

Health Outcomes

• Asthma Hospitalizations
• Diabetes Hospitalizations
• HIV Hospitalizations

New 5-year mortality rates for 2015-2019 are now available (replacing data for 2014-2018). Affected indicators:

Health Outcomes

• Deaths of Despair (Suicide + Drug/Alcohol Poisoning)
• Mortality – Cancer
• Mortality – Heart Disease
• Mortality – Homicide
• Mortality – Coronary Heart Disease
• Mortality – Poisoning
• Mortality – Lung Disease
• Mortality – Motor Vehicle Crash
• Mortality – Opioid Overdose
• Mortality – Stroke
• Mortality – Suicide
• Mortality – Unintentional Injury (Accident)

New maps and data now are available for these two indicators from the CDC National Vital Statistics System 2015-2019. Death counts were downloaded from the CDC WONDER query system. Total rates and race/ethnicity or gender statistics are reported for US counties and states with 10 or more deaths over the report period.
Affected indicators:

Health Outcomes

• Mortality – Influenza & Pneumonia
• Mortality – Firearm

New data available for RSEI Scores by state and county for the year 2019. A RSEI Score is a unitless value that accounts for the size of the chemical release, the fate and transport of the chemical through the environment, the size and location of the exposed population, and the chemical’s toxicity. RSEI scores are designed to be compared to each other. A RSEI Score 10 times higher than another RSEI Score suggests that the potential for risk is 10 times higher.