For my next foray into the HRSA zip code data set I thought I would take a look at the correlation between chlamydia and mortality rates in Cambria and Somerset Counties. The graph above shows a strong positive correlation between zip code chlamydia rates and all cause mortality rates. This means that as chlamydia rates […]

The HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) is a repository of information on our nation’s health. They compute an Unmet Need Score (UNS) to identify medically under-served regions in the U.S. It is a composite of 28 health statistics at the zip code level. The score ranges from 0 to 100. Zip codes are classified […]

Group 2013-2019 2014-2020 2015-2021 2016-2022 Overall 9% 9% 9% 9% White 8% 8% 8% 8% AfricanAmerican 16% 17% 17% 20% Percentage of Low Birth Weight Babies in Cambria County There was one statistic I overlooked for race for Cambria County from County Health Rankings: the percentage of low birth weight babies. The percentage overall and […]

Group 2016-2018 2017-2019 2018-2020 2019-2021 Overall 75.8 76.1 75.8 74.9 White 76.2 76.4 76.1 75.3 AfricanAmerican 65.6 67.3 66.9 63.7 Life Expectancy by Race in Cambria County Two weeks ago I posted on the rise in mortality in the African American community in Cambria County during the pandemic. The table above shows the decline in […]

This is a follow up to the last post on pandemic disparities in racial mortality in Cambria County. Other trends in health outcomes and social variables are provided by County Health Rankings. There was too much trend information on race to fit into one post. For this post I will look at trends in Cambria […]

In the last post, regression models for school funding and men’s and women’s income were presented as predictors for COVID case mortality (COVID deaths/COVID cases). A Facebook reader asked me to explain the models and measures. Case Mortality is an estimate of the risk of dying if one catches COVID. The regression model estimates how […]

In my last statistical post I wrote about food insecurity, motor vehicle crash death rates and COVID Case mortality in the 10 county region. For this post, I thought I would write about school funding adequacy, men and women’s income and case mortality. County Health Rankings defines school funding adequacy as “The average gap in […]

  I have been using the stat package R to create graphics. Above is a graph from R that uses the same variables in a graph from the last post: case mortality and the average number of mentally unhealthy days in the last month. I was able to add another layer to the graph by […]

I finished being at the Juneteenth festivities in Johnstown and am ready to get back to county health rankings (CHR) and local COVID numbers. Case mortality (the number of deceased divided by the number of cases) will be the focus of this post. Two weeks ago, I focused on vaccination rates in the 10 county region. Case […]

I have talked in the last few posts about COVID rates and County Health Rankings (CHR). I flagged significant correlations between the rates and the rankings (greater than 0.632 or less than -0.632 for 10 counties). While the rankings are easy to explain and are often quoted in the media, the individual statistics (more than […]