Cortland Counts: An Assessment of Health and Well Being in Cortland County NY
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Section 3: Report of Findings

VII. Health and Safety

Table HS-31: Relative Health Importance, Cortland County

 

Health Status Compared to Peers
unfavorable
favorable
Health Status Compared to the U.S. Rate unfavorable

Coronary Heart Disease

  

No Care in First Trimester, Stroke
favorable Unmarried Mothers
Unintentional Injury

Low Birth Wt. (<2500 g),
Very Low Birth Wt. (<1500 g), Premature Births (<37 weeks), Teen Mothers <18, Older Mothers 40+, Infant Mortality, White Infant Mortality, Neonatal Infant Mortality, Post-neonatal infant mortality, Breast Cancer (Female), Colon Cancer, Lung Cancer, Motor Vehicle Injuries, Suicide

 

The Relative Health Importance table creates four categories of relative concern by simply comparing a county to its peers and to the U.S.

A county's indicators in the upper left-hand box are higher than the U.S. and it's peers and may warrant more attention. Conversely, indicators in the lower right-hand box of the table compare favorably to both peers and the U.S. The other boxes represent intermediate levels of health where a county's rate is higher than either its peers or the U.S, bot not both.

Source: www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov
     

 

Cortland Counts: An Assessment of Health and Well Being in Cortland County NY
July 2001 Executive Summary and Report of Findings

The Seven Valleys Health Coalition, Inc.
in cooperation with
Cortland County Health Department
Cortland Memorial Hospital
Community Outreach Partnership Center, COPC of SUNY Cortland
United Way for Cortland County, Inc.

These five organizations make up the Cortland Community Assessment Team (CAT)

Seven Valleys Health Coalition, Inc.
10 Kennedy Parkway
Cortland, NY 13045
(607) 756-4198
jackie@sevenvalleyshealth.org