Measuring Subcounty Differences in Population Health Using Hospital and Census-Derived Data Sets: The Missouri ZIP Health Rankings Project.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Measures of population health at the subcounty level are needed to identify areas for focused interventions and to support local health improvement activities.

Objective

To extend the County Health Rankings population health measurement model to the ZIP code level using widely available hospital and census-derived data sources.

Design

Retrospective administrative data study.

Setting

Missouri.

Population

Missouri FY 2012-2014 hospital inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department discharge encounters (N = 36 176 377) and 2015 Nielsen data.

Main outcome measures

ZIP code-level health factors and health outcomes indices.

Results

Statistically significant measures of association were observed between the ZIP code-level population heal

SUBMITTER: Nagasako E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5704978 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul/Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature