Cortland Counts: An Assessment of Health and Well Being in Cortland County NY

Indicators by Category
Indicators by Alpha

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
Health Status Compared to the U.S. Rate	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