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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
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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