New maps and data now available for Premature Death indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).
Affected Indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Premature Death
New maps and data now available for Population Living in a Health Professional Shortage Area indicator.
New data for October 2013 acquired from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Data Warehouse (replacing data for May 2013). Affected indicators:
Clinical Care
- Population Living in a Health Professional Shortage Area
Correction made to mortality rates by gender / race / ethnicity sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) database.
Affected Indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Cancer Mortality
- Heart Disease Mortality
- Homicide
- Stroke Mortality
- Suicide
New maps and data now available for Access to Primary Care indicator.
New data for 2011 acquired from the 2013 Area Health Resources File (AHRF) (replacing data for 2010). Affected indicators:
Clinical Care
- Access to Primary Care
Correction made to reported data for Lack of Prenatal Care indicator data. (CA Only)
Indicator data has been changed due to a discrepancy between the way in which ZIP code and county-level prenatal care data is reported from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
For this indicator, service area summaries are based on ZIP code-level birth statistics. ZIP code level data on prenatal care are acquired from the CDPH 2010 Birth Profiles by ZIP Code databases, which report the number of mothers receiving prenatal care by trimester. Late or no prenatal care was previously reported as “mothers receiving care after the first trimester, or not at all”. County and state level summaries were, however, based on the CDPH Birth Statistical Data Tables (County Data) and Birth Statistical Data Tables (Statewide Data) tables. These tables were used to better capture true county estimates, since ZIP codes do not necessarily correspond to county boundaries. These tables only report one category of prenatal care: “Late or No Prenatal Care”. According to the footnotes, this category only captures mothers beginning prenatal care in the third trimester, or not at all.
To align the ZIP-based service area summaries with the county and state level summaries, prenatal care data is now reported for all geographic levels as mothers beginning prenatal care in the third trimester, or not at all.
New maps available for KP Assets (Medical Offices and Medical Centers)
New facility data acquired using the Kaiser Permanente Interchange Location API.
Correction made to indicators listed in the Demographics Standard Report.
One missing indicator, Population Age 55-64 was added to the Demographics Standard Report. This indicator replaced one instance of Population Age 45-54, which was double-listed. This error affects reports created between June 19th and June 24th, 2013.
New maps and data now available for three indicators from the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).
New data acquired from the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) Atlas interface. Affected indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Chlamydia Incidence
- Gonorrhea Incidence
- HIV Prevalence
Data breakouts by race / ethnicity now available at the state level for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea indicators. Data breakouts by race / ethnicity now available at the state and county level for HIV Prevalence.
Correction made to age-adjusted rates for cancer mortality sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) database.
Age-adjusted mortality rates for malignant neoplasm (cancer) have been corrected. The previous version of this indicator reported age-adjusted mortality rates as the mean of the 95% confidence interval values reported for each county. This error affected the age-adjusted mortality rates for the total population for all counties with less than 100 total deaths, approximately 480 counties. Other population groups (by gender / race-ethnicity) and other causes of death were not affected. Affected indicators:
Health Outcomes
- Cancer Mortality