The Office of Assessment and Surveillance is your source for local health-related data and information.   We work to help improve the health of the Columbus community by:

• providing health-related data and information about Columbus and Franklin County residents and neighborhoods, in the form of reports, presentations, fact sheets, and newsletters
  
• identifying, investigating and reporting on emerging health threats in collaboration with public health partners at the local, state and federal levels
  
• providing support to customers who want to use data effectively in community health policy, planning, and programming decisions.
  
• building capacity (in the community and within CPH) to promote the appropriate collection and use of health-related data and information.

Examples of Current Projects

• Key Community Health Indicators
• Perinatal Periods of Risk
• 2005 Community Health Risk Assessment

Men's Health Local Profile - Franklin County (released 2009)
This report was developed to provide readers with a profile of men's health at the local level.

Key Community Health Indicators (updated 2008)
Contains the latest data for Franklin County and Ohio on a wide variety of measures within the areas of the leading causes of death, communicable disease, maternal and child health, prevalence of health risk behaviors and conditions, environmental health and access to health care.

Indicators at a Glance - 2005 Franklin County Community Health Risk Assessment (released July 2008)
Lists local demographics plus 26 indicators of adult health status, health risk behaviors and health-related characteristics of Franklin County residents based on a telephone survey.

Women’s Health – A Local Profile (2006)
This report was developed to provide readers with a profile of women’s health at the local level. It provides information on health behaviors, health status, and health care utilization of Franklin County women and is intended to be a reference for those interested in improving the health and well-being of local women.
Executive Summary

2000 Columbus/Franklin County Community Health Risk Assessment
Contains information on adult and child health status, health risk behaviors and health-related characteristics of local residents based on a telephone survey.

Annual Summaries of Reportable Diseases:
2007 This report contains summary data of communicable disease among Franklin County residents for 2005 through 2007.
2006 This report contains summary data of communicable disease among Franklin County residents for 2004 through 2006.
2005 This report contains summary data of communicable disease among Columbus residents for 2001 through 2005.

 Additonal reports can be found on the Health Data Reports page.

Additional resources for health related data.

Local

Community Research Partners

Kids Count

The Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude & Use Survey (PPAAUS)

State

Ohio Department of Health

Ohio Department of Health Information Warehouse

Ohio Department of Development

Ohio Hospital Association

National

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Healthy People 2010

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)

Kaiser Family Foundation

National Cancer Institute

National Center for Health Statistics

National Institutes of Health

U.S. Census

March of Dimes (PeriStats)

Institute of Medicine

U.S. Government