Louisville Metro Public Health has launched a new data dashboard that provides insight into the state of health across the city. It’s called the Health Equity Data Dashboard, and it currently includes data for seven health outcomes, with plans to add nine more. Seven results currently on the dashboard: Accidents & Injuries, Alzheimer’s Disease, Arthritis, Birth Outcomes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Homicide Life expectancy across Louisville averages 74.8 years from 2017 to 2021 . The dashboard shows life expectancy across Jefferson County divided into 20 quadrants. This varies by race and gender, with life expectancy from 2017 to 2021 being highest for Hispanics at 86.5 years and for women at 78 years. Meanwhile, within that range, the average life expectancy for men was 71.7 years, and for non-Hispanic blacks it was only 70.7 years. Life expectancy in Louisville has decreased overall since 2011, dropping from 76.8 years to 74.8 years in 2021. Health officials also emphasized that heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death countywide, but Black residents experience them at higher rates than any other race. The dashboard also highlights disparities between west and east Louisville residents when it comes to social vulnerability and mortality rates. This indicates that a large portion of East Louisville scores at or near 0 on the Social Vulnerability Index, indicating low vulnerability, while a large portion of West Louisville scores at or near 1, the highest score in the range. It shows a score close to that. These disparities are further accentuated in mortality rates. , calculated in increments of 100,000. Data from the Northwest Core shows twice the cancer death rate and nearly three times the heart disease death rate compared to the Northeast Core. Other features on the dashboard include demographics by region, race, ethnicity, and sex/gender. Click here to access the dashboard.
Louisville Metro Public Health has launched a new data dashboard that provides insight into the state of health across the city.
It’s called the Health Equity Data Dashboard, and it currently includes data for seven health outcomes, with nine more to be added in the coming months.
Seven results currently displayed on the dashboard:
- accidents and injuries
- Alzheimer’s disease
- arthritis
- Birth results
- cancer
- Heart disease
- murder
In addition to these results, the dashboard also displays root cause analysis leading to each result.
One of the data points displayed on the dashboard is life expectancy across Louisville, which averages 74.8 years from 2017 to 2021. The dashboard shows life expectancy across Jefferson County divided into 20 quadrants.
This varies by race and gender, with the average life expectancy from 2017 to 2021 being the highest for Hispanics at 86.5 years and 78 years for women. Meanwhile, within that range, the average life expectancy for men was 71.7 years, and for non-Hispanic blacks it was only 70.7 years.
Life expectancy in Louisville has declined overall since 2011, dropping from 76.8 years to 74.8 years in 2021.
Health officials also emphasized that heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death countywide, but Black residents experience them at higher rates than any other race/ethnicity.
The dashboard also highlights disparities between west and east Louisville residents when it comes to social vulnerability and mortality rates. This means that a large portion of East Louisville has scores at or near 0 on the Social Vulnerability Index, indicating low vulnerability, whereas a large portion of West Louisville has a score of 1, the highest score in the range. or a score close to it.
These disparities are further highlighted by mortality rates calculated per 100,000 people. Data from the northwest core showed twice the cancer death rate and nearly three times the heart disease death rate compared to the northeast core.
Other features on the dashboard include demographics by region, race, ethnicity, and sex/gender.
Click here to access the dashboard.
