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Vital Signs Indicators

Vital Signs 2009 updated 23 indicators from the June 2006 report and added 5 new indicators for a total of 28.


Housing and Food Security
  • rental housing
  • home ownership
  • homelessness
  • food stamps/SNAP
  • mortgage foreclosure and delinquency
  • personal bankruptcy
Community and Individual Well-being and Safety
  • high school dropout rate
  • child abuse and maltreatment
  • domestic violence
  • youth arrests
  • violent crimes
  • hate crime
  • voter turnout
Health Insurance and Physical and Mental Health
  • health insurance
  • early prenatal care
  • teen pregnancies
  • teen births
  • low birth weight
  • infant mortality
  • pediatric asthma
  • diabetes-related amputations
  • senior unintentional falls
  • diseases 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 February 16, 2010.
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