Health Data and Reports

• Healthy NC 2030: A Path Toward Health (HNC 2030) offers a common set of public health indicators and targets to improve all NC residents’ health and well-being over the next decade, acts as NCDPH’s population health improvement plan and a springboard for collaboration.
• NC Division of Public Health State Health Assessment 2019, A companion report to Healthy NC 2030: A Path Toward Health
• NC State Health Improvement Plan 2023 (NCSHIP) provides an update on the progress for improving the health of North Carolinians based upon Healthy NC 2030.
• The Healthy NC 2030 Scorecard supports the NCDPH's 2020, 2022 and 2023 State Health Improvement Plan and monitors state progress on the NC 2030 indicators.
• The NC Division of Public Health and the NC State Center for Health Statistics (NCSCHS) provide a wealth of health data and comprehensive collection of state and county-level health statistics. Below are links to data dashboards and other data sources:
• The NC Data Portal is a secondary data tool that provides data and visualizations to make community health assessment and planning easier.  
• The NC Communicable Disease Data Dashboard (NCD3 Dashboard) provides state and county counts, rates and subgroup data by gender, age group, race and ethnicity for reportable communicable diseases.
• The Maternal and Infant Health Data Dashboard provides data showing trends, geographical differences and subgroup data for maternal health and birth outcome  indicators.
• The NC Violent Death Reporting System (NC-VDRS) Violent Deaths Dashboard provides detailed information on violent deaths at the state, county and subgroup level, including homicide, suicide and firearm related deaths.  
• The NC Opioid and Substance Use Action Plan (NCOSUAP) Dashboard provides integration and visualization of state, regional and county-level metrics across NC to track action plan progress.
• The NC Early Childhood Integrated Data System Data Reports Dashboards shares early childhood integrated data for select education, health and social services programs.
• NC Environmental Health Data Dashboard provides state and county environmental health and climate data over time. 
• Other NCDPH dashboards are available at the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
   

• The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a randomized telephone survey of state residents aged 18 and older collecting information on health behaviors and preventive health practices. 
• County-Level Health Data provides annual reports and special studies that include county-level data on topics such as births, deaths, cancer incidence and mortality, pregnancy and others. 
• NCSCHS County Health Databook  is published annually to provide communities with quantitative data in a wide range of health-related topics at the county and state level.
• The NC Central Cancer Registry (NC CCR) is a population-based reporting system that collects, processes and analyzes data on all cancer cases and deaths diagnosed among NC residents, publishing various reports and publications.
• NC Vital Statistics provides annual publications on deaths, births, fetal deaths, matched birth/infant deaths, marriages and divorces for NC, counties and regions.
• The NC Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) includes survey data on maternal attitudes and experiences prior to, during and immediately after pregnancy for a representative sample of NC women who have recently had a baby. 
• NCSCHS Racial and Ethnic Minority Health Data highlights racial and ethnic minority health data on the SCHS web site as well as other related websites and publications. 
• Facts & Figures – NC HIV/AIDS, STDs and Viral Hepatitis B and C  provides access to quarterly and annual reports containing the most recent data on HIV/AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea and Chlamydia.
   

• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps developed by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute provides annual County Health Rankings for most US counties, sharing local, state and national data on health outcomes and social and economic factors that influence health.
• The City Health Dashboard created by NYU Grossman School of Medicine's Department of Population Health offers data on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for cities with a population of 50,000 or more, including Greensboro and High Point.
• The Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Data Dashboard provides county and city data on metric that are strongly associated with upward mobility in communities (defined as long-term economic success, dignity and belonging and power and autonomy).
• The UNC Chapel Hill’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research’s NC Health Professions Data System (HPDS) collects and disseminates timely and reliable state and county data on selected licensed health professionals.
• The NC Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NCDETECT) a collaboration between the NCDPH and the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine’s Carolina Center for Health Informatics provides statewide early event detection and timely public health surveillance using a variety of secondary data sources. NCDETECT now has the following data dashboards available: 
  • Annual Emergency Department (ED) Visit Trends Dashboard provides information on ED visit trends, counts and crude rates at the state and county level.
  • Mental Health Dashboard – shows ZIP, county and state-level ED visit trends for select mental health-related conditions.
  • Asthma & Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Dashboard – This dashboard provides ZIP, county and state-level ED visit trends for asthma and COPD.
  • The Unintentional Falls Dashboard displays annual emergency department visit trends for unintentional falls. 
  • The Respiratory Dashboard shows weekly statewide trends in ED visits for select respiratory conditions: COVID-like illness, Influenza and RSV-like Illness. 
  • The ED Data Quality Dashboard displays ED visit volume, trends in unknown/missingness for key data elements and monthly trends in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM code completeness. NC DETECT data users should keep these data quality indicators in mind when performing analyses.
• The myFutureNC Dashboard shows progress toward the state’s overall 2030 goal for postsecondary educational attainment and educational performance indicators across the education continuum, Pre-K through college completion and into the labor market.
• The NC Healthy Schools site from the NC Department of Public Instruction provides state and regional data from the NC Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which assesses youth health behaviors including violence, personal safety, physical activity, nutrition, mental health, tobacco, drugs and alcohol, protective factors and sexual behavior.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides health and safety information and national level data on health conditions, environmental health, healthy living and more.
• The National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people.
• The United States Census Bureau provides quality data about the nation’s people, households and the economy, including income, poverty and economic data at the state, county and sub-county levels.
• The NC State Demographer’s Office produces county and state population estimates and projections to inform the distribution of state shared revenues to local governments and long-range planning. 
   

The following resources share evidence-based strategies that can inform work to improve the health of Guilford County individuals and families:

• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, What Works for Health shares evidence-informed programs, policies and systems changes by topic area that communities can use to move into action.
• Healthy People 2030 Evidence-Based Resources catalogs evidence-based resources by specific health conditions, behaviors, population groups, settings, systems and social determinants of health.
• The Community Guide hosts evidence-based recommendations and findings to protect and improve population health based on systematic reviews of evidence of effectiveness and economic impact by the Community Preventive Services Task Force, an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts.
• The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent, volunteer panel of national experts that makes evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Achieving Health Equity provides evidence-based information on how addressing health equity can increase opportunities for everyone to live the healthiest life possible.
• CDC’s Paving the Road to Health Equity details the CDC’s work at addressing population-level factors, such as the physical, built, social and policy environments, to have a greater impact on health outcomes.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices for prevention, treatment and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders.