7 Jun
2016
7 Jun
'16
5:21 p.m.
FYI -
http://www.cdc.gov/500cities/
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will be hosting an informational webinar on the 500
Cities Project on June 30, 2016 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm EDT. Please click this link:
https://cc.readytalk.com/registration/#/?meeting=a298ov9hrivb&campaign=… to
register for the webinar.
Project Purpose
* This project will identify, analyze, and report city and census
tract-level data, obtained using small area estimation methods, for 27 disease measures
for the 500 largest American cities.
* The data will be available by summer 2017 through a public, interactive
"500 Cities" website that will allow users to view, explore, and download city-
and tract-level data.
* Although limited data are available at the county and metropolitan
levels, this project represents a first-of-its kind data analysis to release information
on a large scale for cities and for small areas within cities. This system would
complement existing surveillance data necessary to more fully understand the health issues
affecting the residents of that city or census tract.
* These high-quality, small-area epidemiologic data can be used both by
individual cities and groups of cities as well as other stakeholders to help develop and
implement effective and targeted prevention activities; identify emerging health problems;
and establish and monitor key health objectives. For example, city planners and elected
officials may want to use this data to target neighborhoods for effective interventions.
* Measures will complement existing sets of indicators such as the
Community Health Status Indicators (http://wwwn.cdc.gov/communityhealth) and the County
Health Rankings (http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/).
Measures
* The 27 measures include 5 unhealthy behaviors, 13 health outcomes, and 9
prevention practices.
* The measures include major risk behaviors that lead to illness,
suffering, and early death related to chronic diseases and conditions, as well as the
conditions and diseases that are the most common, costly, and preventable of all health
problems.
* Each measure will have a comprehensive definition that includes the
background, significance, limitations of the indicator, data source, and limitations of
the data resources.
Unique Value of the 500 Cities Project
* The 500 Cities Project reflects innovations in generating valid small-area
estimates for population health.
* It provides data for cities, many of which cover multiple counties or do not
follow county boundaries, and for census tracts for the first time. These data will be
filterable (by city and/or tracts; as well as by measure) and downloadable for use in
separate analyses by the end-users.
* The project will enable retrieval, visualization, and exploration of a uniformly-
defined selected city and tract-level data for the largest 500 US cities for conditions,
behaviors, and risk factors that have a substantial effect on population health.
The project will deliver data for the 497 largest American cities and will include data
from the largest cities in Vermont (Burlington - population: 42,417), West Virginia
(Charleston - population: 51,400) and Wyoming (Cheyenne - population: 59,466) to ensure
inclusion of cities from all the states; bringing the total to 500 cities. The cities
range in population from 42,417 in Burlington, Vermont to 8,175,133 in New York City, New
York. Among these 500 cities, there are approximately 28,000 census tracts, for which data
will be provided. The tracts range in population from less than 50 to 28,960, and in size
from less than 1 square mile to more than 642 square miles. The number of tracts per city
ranges from 8 to 2,140. The project includes a total population of 103,020,808.