New data on violent crimes are available for the 2015-17 three-year period (replacing data for 2012-14). Violent crime includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault while property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Crime totals and rates are multi-year estimates for the three year period 2015-2017. County-level UCR files are based on agency records in a file obtained from the FBI that also provides aggregated county totals. NACJD inputs missing data and then aggregates the data to the county-level. Multi-year estimates are calculated by CARES.
New maps and data now available for the 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).
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2016-2018). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators:
- Access to Premature Death
New maps and data for addiction/substance abuse providers added to the reporting platform!
Data has been updated to the latest (August, 2019) version of the CMS NPPES database.
New maps and data now available for the Teen Births 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).
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2012-2018). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators:
- Teen Births
Emegency Room Utilization Rate, 2017
A new indicator has been added to the reporting platform! This indicator reports emergency department utilization rates among Medicare beneficiaries from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Geographic Variation Public Use File. Data are reported for the latest report period (2017) with trends over time available beginning with year 2010.
New maps and data now available for the Adult Smoking indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2017). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators:
- Adult Smoking
Chlamydia Incidence, 2018 report indicator update
New maps and data now available for the Chlamydia Incidence indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance System (STDSS). Data have been updated through report year 2018.
New maps and data now available for the Poor Mental Health Days indicator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the University of Wisconsin’s County Health Rankings (CHR).
Data have been updated to the most recent time period (2017). Data are obtained from the the 2020 County Health Rankings, released on March 23, 2020. Affected Indicators:
- Poor Mental Health Days
Beneficiaries with Chronic Conditions, 2018
Multiple indicators have been updated to use the latest release from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Chronic Conditions Warehouse (CCW). New data about the prevalence of specific chronic conditions among the Medicare population are available for 2018 (replacing data for 2017). Time series data are now available for years 2011 through 2018.Affected indicators:
- Alcohol Use Disorder (Medicare Population)
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Asthma (Medicare Population)
- Cancer (Medicare Population)Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Medicare Population)
- Depression (Medicare Population)
- Diabetes (Medicare Population)
- Heart Disease (Medicare Population)
- High Blood Pressure (Medicare Population)
- High Cholesterol (Medicare Population)
- Stroke(Medicare Population)
- Substance Use Disorder (Medicare Population)
Adult Obesity, 2017
New data are available for 2017 (replacing data for 2016) for indicators from the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP). Time series data are updated to include 2004 through 2017. Data by gender (male/female) are also available for this indicator.