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Indicators

The June 2006 report includes the following indicators:

Housing and Food Security
  • rental housing
  • home ownership
  • homelessness
  • food insecurity
  • food stamps
Community and Individual Well-being and Safety
  • high school dropout rate
  • child abuse and neglect
  • domestic violence
  • juvenile arrests
  • violent crimes
  • hate crime
Health Insurance and Physical and Mental Health
  • health insurance
  • early prenatal care
  • teen pregnancies and teen births
  • low birth weight
  • infant mortality
  • pediatric asthma
  • diabetes-related amputations
  • disease of the heart
  • cancer
  • HIV/AIDS
  • suicide
  • drug abuse
  • alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths

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The June 2007 report on Mental Health includes the following indicators

  • emotional disturbance in children
  • persons in need of supervision (pins)
  • mental distress days
  • domestic violence
  • child abuse and neglect
  • drug abuse
  • self-inflicted injuries
  • suicide
  • inpatient psychiatric discharges/admissions
  • county jail inmates with mental illness
  • homeless people with mental illness
  • community-based residential serious mental health illness
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:

e - vitalsigns@adelphi.edu


This page last modified on January 17, 2008.
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