I have used County Health Rankings for years on this site to provide insight into the social ills plaguing the Allegheny mountains. Last year they lost their main funder, the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation. They are not doing major data releases now, but they update their site as new data is released. This post focuses […]

I have used County Health Rankings for years on this site to provide insight into the social ills plaguing the Alleghenies. Last year they lost their main funder, the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation. They are not doing the major data releases now, but they are updating their site as new data are released. This post […]

When looking at the Unmet Need Score (UNS) from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) data tool, Downtown Johnstown (zip code 15901) had the highest UNS in Pennsylvania of 96.07 out of a possible 100. The UNS is a composite of 33 statistics. These statistics are in the table below for the 15901 zip […]

I have looked at Unmet Need Scores (UNS) in Pennsylvania and the Alleghenies. The UNS is a composite of dozens of related health, social and economic variables. Teasing apart the relationships among the variables one by one is tricky. There is a method that allows for identifying clusters of highly correlated variables called factor analysis. […]

After looking at the unmet need scores (UNS) in the Alleghenies, I thought that I should backtrack and look at unmet needs in Pennsylvania. There are 1,945 zip codes in the state. As you can see in the image above, some of these cross state lines. One hundred and forty nine zip codes have a […]

Last Saturday I went to the Rage Against the Regime protest in downtown Johnstown. I interviewed some of the participants in the video above. Groups like Indivisible organized the rally. Previously I posted on the unmet need score (UNS) for 708 zip codes in the Alleghenies. These zip codes are seen in the map below. […]

I have looked at County Health Rankings variables in Pennsylvania correlating them with Trump’s vote at the county level. This time I am looking at the Health Resources and Services Administration Unmet Need Score online tool. You can see where your zip code stands at this tool. This tool provides health data at the zip […]

The 2025 County Health Rankings are out. Their current health model is in the video above. This may be the last time that the rankings are released. This is due to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s decision to discontinue funding. For this post, I will focus on pandemic life expectancies for race in the Alleghenies. […]

While looking at the numbers for Johnstown and Altoona in the last post, I looked at the county health rankings for Blair County. To my surprise the life expectancy for African-Americans there (65.1 years) was close to that for Cambria County (63.7 years). This is despite Blair County having a relatively high overall heath ranking […]

Two weeks ago I looked at Chlamydia and mortality rates from all causes in Cambria and Somerset County zip codes. This week I thought I would take a look at how chlamydia rates are correlated with social ailments in the county zip codes. The first variable I looked with Chlamydia rates Mortality from drug use […]