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Community Profile Data

Community Profiles contain data for deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department discharges, in-patient treatment discharges, physical rehabilitation, and skilled nursing facility discharges for San Diego County and its communities. 

The Community Profiles are available online as dynamic Tableau dashboards, linked. These dashboards help to visualize the health data by the lenses of health equity: age, sex, geography, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. There are over 70 conditions with four outcomes available (death, hospitalization, emergency department discharge, and in-patient treatment discharges). Data are available for the Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) Regions and their respective subregional areas (SRAs), as well as for the 18 municipalities and the unincorporated area of San Diego County. Selected tabs can be downloaded as images and the entire profile can be downloaded as PDFs or PowerPoint slides.

 

Please click anywhere in the bars below to open it and access the links for prior years of  the Community Morbidity and Mortality Dashboards and Excel Workbooks.

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The Community Profiles Data Guide and Data Dictionary Dashboards contain technical notes for users of the Community Profiles’ morbidity and mortality data. The data guide provides information for data users, describes geographic units used in health data, explains rates, age-adjusted rates, and confidence intervals. Additionally, the guide lists the data sources used to create the Community Profiles data and a variable guide for the data. There are four data dictionaries for the Community Profiles. The first dashboard is a morbidity data dictionary dashboard, that provides a list of Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) category codes and descriptions, and ICD-10 CM codes and descriptions used to categorize each condition with an emergency department discharge, hospitalization, or in-patient treatment outcome. The second dashboard is a mortality data dictionary, which provides a list of ICD-10 mortality codes and descriptions that were used to categorize each condition with a death outcome. The third dashboard lists the classification type of each condition and outcome. The final dashboard is a data standards dashboard where you can find the standard, link to to the standard, and notes for each condition and outcome. 

 

Please click anywhere in the bar  below to open it and access the links for prior years of  the Data Guides and Dictionaries.

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For machine-readable data, visit the County of San Diego's data access portal.

Health Briefs  are   easy-to-read, printable health statistics by HHSA Region using data from the Community Profiles and the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Each health brief contains information on non-communicable disease, communicable disease, ADRD, maternal & child health, injury, and behavioral health data.

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Demographics

The Demographic Profiles provide information on the demographic characteristics of specific populations in San Diego County, including social determinants of health (SDOH). Each Profile contains demographic data, including age, gender, race/ethnicity distributions, school enrollment, educational attainment, income, occupation, housing, and other SDOH. Many of these factors have been identified as contributors to health disparities. The profiles are designed to help HHSA staff in each of the Health and Human Services Regions (Regions) and other local organizations, including Live Well San Diego recognized partners, identify and prioritize needs within their communities.

The Demographic Profiles include the latest demographic and economic data available by Health and Human Services (HHSA) region, city, and supervisorial district in PDF format. The Demographic Profiles are also available as dynamic Tableau dashboards, with an additional dashboard on demographic data at the census tract level. 

Please click "expand all" or click anywhere in the bar below to open it and access the links for the Demographic Profiles for prior/archived years.

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San Diego County MENA Population by Ancestry and Place of Birth Profiles

Currently, the U.S. government classifies Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) individuals as White under Directive No. 15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (SPD 15). The San Diego County MENA Population by Ancestry and Place of Birth Profile examines the MENA population through ancestry and birthplace due to the absence of a direct estimation method.

 

Please click "expand all" or click anywhere in the bar below to open it and access the links for the MENA Profiles of prior years.

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For machine-readable data, visit the County of San Diego's  data access portal.

Health Equity

HealthEquityReports2022

For over 20 years, the Public Health Services department, in the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, has been tracking population health data by age, gender, geography, race/ethnicity, and, more recently, by socioeconomic status. This 2022 health disparities report series is an update to reports published in 2016 and has been expanded to include indicators of                well‐being, in addition to disease burden.

The Exploring Health Disparities in San Diego County series includes detailed reports with data and information for each of the lenses of health equity: Age, Gender, Geography, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status.

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  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Population

    Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) are diverse and include people of all demographic backgrounds. Members of the LGBTQ community are at increased risk for a number of poor health outcomes compared to heterosexual and cisgender people as a result of social and structural inequities.3

    The interactive Tableau dashboards below help to visualize demographic, health and well-being, and healthcare access data disaggregated by sexual orientation and gender identity. Data for the adult population comes from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), 2016-2020, and data for the youth population is from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), 2015-2019. The dashboard also introduces the terminology used to describe sexual orientation and gender identity and emphasizes the importance of identifying and addressing health inequities among the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) population. 

    The Adult LGBQ Population in San Diego County Brief, 2016-2020

    The LGBT Youth Population in San Diego Unified School District, 2015-2019

    The LGBTQ Health and Well-Being Dashboard

    Dashboard instructions here.

     

Economic Hardship Index

Subregional Area (SRA)

Economic Hardship Index (EHI): Index of economic conditions based on crowded housing, dependency, education, income, poverty, and unemployment, with a higher value indicating worse economic conditions.1-3 This map helps visualize the estimated EHI by subregional area in San Diego County. The estimated EHI compares economic conditions between subregional areas. 

Download a PDF version of the 2022 Economic Hardship Index Fact Sheet. 

Download a PDF version of the 2022 Economic Hardship Index by Subregional Area map. 

*Estimated economic hardship index values were calculated based on aggregating census tract data.

1. America’s Health Rankings analysis of U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, United Health Foundation, AmericasHealthRankings.org, accessed 2023.
2. Montiel LM, Nathan RP, Wright DJ. An update on urban hardship. Albany (NY): The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government; 2004.
3. Nathan, Richard P., and Charles Adams. 1976. “Understanding Central City Hardship.” Political Science Quarterly 91 (1): 47–62. https://doi.org/10.2307/2149158.  

 

Census Tracts

The Economic Hardship Index (EHI) by Census Tract Dashboard contains a map of the distribution of the EHI across census tracts in San Diego County. The estimated Economic Hardship Index by census tract map (see map below) shows the variation in levels of economic hardship and allows identification of communities with greater economic hardship. The dashboard provides the data for each of the components of EHI and the life expectancy of the subregional area (SRA) and HHSA Region the census tract is in. Additionally, the dashboard ranks the census tracts from highest to lowest EHI.

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Life Expectancy

Life expectancy is one of the Top 10 Indicators measured for the County of San Diego’s Live Well San Diego vision for healthier, safer, and thriving communities. This measure is a widely used indicator for the capability to live a long and healthy life and reflects the overall mortality of a population. The life expectancy brief includes life expectancy by gender, race/ethnicity, geography, and overall, for San Diego County.

Click button below for Life Expectancy Brief.

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