Healthy Tampa Bay :: Community Dashboard

The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.

This gauge shows whether the Region: Tampa Bay value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement. A blue arrow means the value being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad.

Region
Time Period

15.5

19.3

Red > 19.3
Green <= 15.5
In-between = Yellow
Unit: hospitalizations/10,000 population under 18 years
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Age-Adjusted Hospitalization Rate due to Pediatric Asthma

Value:	18.6 hospitalizations/10,000 population under 18 years
Measurement Period:	2009-2011
Location:	Region : Tampa Bay Located in State: Florida [ View All Location Types ]
Comparison:	FL Counties
Categories:	Health / Respiratory Diseases Health / Children's Health Health / Environmental & Occupational Health

Why can I view maps for some indicators and not all indicators?
The dashboard contains maps for HCI-maintained indicators that show how your community is doing in comparison to other communities (green-yellow-red divided gauge), as shown below:

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The indicator data is compared to a mean or median value; the gauge does not have distinct divisions, as shown below:
The indicator shows data for a non-standard geography. Custom geographies, such as special regions, service areas or subsets of zip codes, are not mapped.

Why are some values for counties and/or zip codes not available?
Certain values may not be available for a variety of reasons:

HCI only provides the values for counties, zip codes and census tracts where data is available on your site.
When there are only a small number of data values for a zip code or county (e.g., 10 deaths due to heart disease), data values are often not shown due to confidentiality and stability concerns. You will not see this data mapped or on your dashboard.
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Why can’t I see zip code level data for all indicators?
Data collection at the zip code level is a resource intensive process; therefore, many data sources do not collect and report data at this level.

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What is this Indicator?

This indicator shows the average annual age-adjusted hospitalization rate due to asthma per 10,000 population under 18 years.

Why this is important:

Asthma is a condition in which a person's air passages become inflamed, and the narrowing of the respiratory passages makes it difficult to breathe. In the past thirty years, asthma has become one of the most common long-term diseases of children, but it also affects 15.7 million non-institutionalized adults nationwide. Symptoms can include tightness in the chest, coughing, and wheezing. These symptoms are often brought on by exposure to inhaled allergens, such as dust, pollen, mold, cigarette smoke, and animal dander, or by exertion and stress. Reducing exposure to poor housing conditions, traffic pollution, secondhand smoke and other factors impacting air quality can help prevent asthma and asthma attacks.There is no cure for asthma, but for most people, the symptoms can be managed through a combination of long-term medication prevention strategies and short-term quick relievers. In some cases, however, asthma symptoms are severe enough to warrant hospitalization, and can result in death.

Technical Note: The distribution is based on data from 63 Florida counties.

Rates were calculated using population figures from the 2010 U.S. Census. Rates based on fewer than 10 hospitalizations are unstable and are not reported. Rates for zip codes with a population of less than 300 are not reported.

Rates by race/ethnicity are for 2010-2011.

Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

URL of Source: http://ahca.myflorida.com/

Maintained By: Healthy Communities Institute

Time Series Data

hospitalizations/10,000 population under 18 years

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Unit: hospitalizations/10,000 population under 18 years
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