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Data
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| POPULATION: |
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Population
and Ethnicity, 2000 Census Summary File 1 (SF1). Hispanics are an ethnic
group. Racial groups add to 100%. Races alone or in combination with one
or more other races data used. Population Density = Population Year 2000
/ Square Miles, 2000 Census SF1. |
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| INCOME: |
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Percent
of 2000 population under Federal Poverty Level (FPL), Census 2000 SF3,
Median Household Income (rounded to nearest hundred), percent of 2000
population 25 years of age or older with less than a High School
Diploma, 2000 Census, Summary File 3
(SF3). |
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| INSURANCE: |
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Medicare
Recipients, age >=65: Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services, 07/01/00, percent of 2000
population on Medicare.
AHCCCS enrollees, percent of 2000 population on AHCCCS. KidsCare
Enrollees, percent of 0-19 2000 population, Arizona Health Care Cost
Containment System (AHCCCS),
12/31/2000.
Adults without medical and dental insurance, Behavioral
Risk Factors survey, percent of respondents in the affirmative,
Arizona Department of Health Services, 2000.
Children without dental insurance, Arizona Department of Health
Services, Office of
Oral Health, Arizona School Dental Survey, "Every Tooth
Counts," 1999-2003, Children in public schools in grades
Kindergarten through Third Grade.
Percent of Work Force Unemployed, Arizona, Arizona
Department of Economic Security, 2000; National, Census
2000 Supplementary Survey.
Food Stamp recipients, City & State, Arizona Department of Economic
Security (DES), June 2000;
National Census 2000 Supplementary Survey.
Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Arizona, Arizona Department of
Economic Security, 2000; National, U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Food
and Nutrition Service, FY 2000.
Children Rehabilitative Services Participants, count of eligible
members, Arizona Department of Health
Services, Office
for Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2000. |
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| PERSONNEL: |
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Primary
Care Physicians, active Medical Doctors in Family Practice, General
Practice, Gynecology, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology,
Pediatrics, and all active Osteopathic Physicians.
Medical Doctors and Physician Assistants, Arizona
Medical Board. Medical Doctors, Oct 2000, Physician Assistants, Feb
2000.
Osteopathic Physicians, Arizona
Board of Osteopathic Examiners, Oct 2000.
Dentists, Arizona Board of
Dental Examiners, Oct 2000.
Nurse Practitioners, Arizona
State Board of Nursing, Nov 2000, Certified Nurse Midwives, Arizona
State Board of Nursing, December 2000. |
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| DESIGNATIONS: |
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Currently
designated Primary Care (PC) Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA),
Dental or Mental HPSA designation, Federal Medically Underserved Area or
Population (fed MUA or MUP), AzMUA, Arizona Medically Underserved Area: Arizona
Department of Health Services, Office
of Health Systems Development. |
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| FACILITIES: |
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Current
Sliding Fee Scale primary care clinics (per AAC Title 9, chapter 2,
section R9-2-101: A "sliding fee schedule" means a document
that sets forth the relationship between an individual's income and
family size and states the percentage of the charges for health care
services provided pursuant to A.R.S. 36-2907.06 for which the individual
will be responsible).
School Based/School Linked Health Clinics --Tobacco Tax School Based
clinics, Office of Health Systems
Development, ADHS.
Non-Federal Hospitals and Beds, Arizona
Department of Health Services, Division
of Licensing Services, Oct 2000. |
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| BIRTH
MEASURES: |
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Characteristics
of Arizona mothers and newborns are based on information collected on
birth certificates filed with the Arizona
Department of Health Services, Office
of Vital Records.
The data for National are from "Births: Final Data for 2000,"
National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 50, Number 5, February 12,
2002, Hyattsville, Maryland, National
Center for Health Statistics.
Population denominators for Arizona residents, used to calculate rates,
are census enumerations for 2000 from the U.S.
Census Bureau.
Additional information on Arizona mothers and newborns is available
online at http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/. |
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| DEATH
MEASURES: |
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These
mortality rates are per 100,000 population age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S.
standard. Age-adjusted mortality rates are better indicators than crude
(unadjusted) death rates when comparing mortality across geographic
areas or between subgroups of population that have different age
compositions.
Technical information on computing age-adjusted mortality rates is
available online at http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/report/ahs/ahs2001/source01.pdf.
Age-specific and cause-specific mortality profiles are based on
information collected on death certificates filed with the Arizona
Department of Health Services, Office
of Vital Records.
The data for National are from "Deaths: Final Data for 2000,"
National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 50, Number 15, September 16,
2002, Hyattsville, Maryland, National
Center for Health Statistics.
Population denominators for Arizona residents, used to calculate rates,
are census enumerations for 2000 from the U.S.
Census Bureau.
Additional information on deaths to Arizona residents is available
online at http://www.azdhs.gov/plan/. |
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INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
(cases of): |
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Arizona
Notifiable Diseases - Vaccine preventable diseases include the number of
reported cases of measles, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus, rubella,
congenital rubella, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases include cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and
syphilis. For HIV/AIDS, if the number of reported cases is between 0 and
3 then, the count will show as <3. Food borne diseases include
campylobacteriosis, cryptosporidiosis, E. coli O157:H7, listeriosis,
paratyphoid, typhoid fever, salmonellosis, vibriosis and yersiniosis.
For Tuberculosis, if the number of reported cases is between 0 and 3,
then the count will show as <3. All cases must meet the CSTE/CDC Case
Definitions for Public Health Surveillance. Arizona
Department of Health Services (ADHS), Bureau
of Epidemiology and Disease Control, Cases reported in the calendar
year 2000.
Nationally Notifiable
Diseases - Vaccine Preventable Diseases include the number of reported
cases of measles, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus, rubella, congenital
rubella, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b. AIDS cases
only. Food Borne Diseases include salmonellosis, typhoid fever,
listeriosis, cryptosporidiosis and E. coli, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MMWR Summary Report for 2000. |
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CANCER
(new cases of): |
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Cancer
cases: ADHS, Arizona
Cancer Registry, 2000.
National, CDC MMWR Summary Report for
2000. |
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| IMMUNIZATION: |
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Immunization,
percent of Census 2000 2 year old children immunized 4 DTP/DTap, 3
Polio, 1 MMR, 3 HIB (4-3-1-3), ADHS, Arizona
State Immunization System.
National, percent of children 19-35 months immunized 4-3-1-3, 2000
National Immunization Survey, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. |
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| ORAL
HEALTH: |
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Oral
Health, ADHS, Arizona School
Dental Survey, "Every Tooth Counts," 1999-2003, Children in
public schools in grades Kindergarten through Third Grade.
"Urgent" means children with pain and/or infection requiring
treatment within a 24-hour period. Sealants Present on at least one
permanent molar. County data based on a probability sample by community
and therefore may not be representative of the county as a whole.
National data, National Center for
Health Statistics. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
III 1988-1994. Hyattsville, MD: Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unpublished data. |
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| BEHAVIORAL
RISK FACTORS: |
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Behavioral
Risk Factors survey, percent of respondents in the affirmative. Data
is available by National, state, regional levels, and Maricopa and Pima
counties, Arizona Department of Health
Services, 2000. |
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| HOSPITALIZATIONS: |
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Asthma,
Diabetes, Heart Attack, Stroke hospitalizations per 100,000 residents,
year 2000, Arizona Department
of Health Services, Bureau
of Public Health Statistics, Hospital Discharge Registry.
Traumatic Brain Injury, number of incident cases identified from Arizona
Department of Health Services Hospital Discharge data for 2000,
unduplicated and excluding emergency department and federal hospital
discharges, Office for
Children with Special Health Care Needs. |
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| SUMMARY
MEASURES OF HEATLH: |
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Premature
Mortality, percent of deaths occurring before the U.S. birth life
expectancy for 2000 (76.9 years for all U.S. residents in 2000), Arizona
Department of Health Services, Office
of Vital Records.
Self-rated health status from the Behavioral
Risk Factors Survey on a scale of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair,
or Poor, year 2000, Arizona
Department of Health Services.
Average number of unhealthy days in the past month, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 2000. |
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