Correction made to prevalence estimates for select chronic conditions among Medicare patients.

An error was identified in the query used to generate prevalence estimates for select chronic conditions among Medicare patients. This issue affected only those multi-county report areas which included one or more counties with “no data”. These counties area: Aleutians West Borough, AK; Denali Borough, AK; King County, TX; Loving County, TX; Greensville County, VA;…

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

New maps and data now available for indicators from the CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP).

New data are available for 2016 (replacing data for 2015). Time series data are updated to include 2004 through 2016. Data by gender (male/female) are also available for this indicator. Physical Inactivity (Adult)

Correction made to export to Excel function for three indicators.

An issue was identified affecting the export to Excel data for multi-county report areas in three indicator datasets. For these indicators a database query needed to summarize data across multiple counties was missing causing state, county, and national values to populate across the excel table columns incorrectly. This issue has been addressed. Affected indicators: 30-Day…

Correction made to custom geographic areas for Access to Primary Care indicator values.

An error was identified in which the numerator (number of primary care physicians) and denominator (total population) values for custom geographic areas were reported as a multi-year aggregate rather than for a single year. Numerator and denominator values have been updated to represent the counts for year 2014 only. Rates expressed per 100,000 population were…

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

New maps and data now available for the Transfer Payments indicator from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

New maps and data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis display information about personal income from transfer receipts (benefits received by persons for which no current services are performed). New breakouts display transfer payment income by source: Retirement and disability; Medical benefits; Income maintenance benefits (SSI, EITC, SNAP, etc.); Unemployment; Veterans’ benefits; Education and training…