title: Which parishes are most healthy?
abstract: Raw data for 21 health outcomes are ranked from 1 to 64 within each measure for all Louisiana parishes. The average of all ranked outcome measures is reported along with the individual ranked scores. This average rank for all parishes is also reported as a quartile score. The ranked measures are grouped in eight categories suggested by the Healthy People 2000 program, and a quartile score is reported for the average of each of the categories. The purpose of this rankings is to enable comparisons of health outcomes between and within the parishes. The diversity of the measures within parishes suggests strengths and weaknesses for each community. As suggested by the Healthy People 2000 program, health outcomes, when organized in the conceptual categories, suggest how behavior and attitude impact on health status.
authors.affiliation: Tulane School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jooma
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Romalewski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Borstell
mesh_terms: D006304:Health Status; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D012423:Rural Health; D014504:Urban Health