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POPULATION HEALTH DATA BRIEF TEMPLATE

[Your Name, Credentials]

Informatics for Transforming Nursing Care

[Month/Year]

[Name of County and State]

A. Sociodemographic Profile

1. Key Findings

· [In this section, present the key findings from your data brief.]

· [These findings should be presented in a bulleted list.]

· [Limit this list to five bullets.]

· [This list should be single-spaced.]

· [There should be two or fewer lines for each finding.]

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[Replace the screenshot below with one of your state, showing the county you are investigating.]

2. Introductory paragraph

[Replace this text with a brief introduction (suggested length of 1-2 paragraphs) to this section by identifying the source of the data and a summary of findings from the table in part A3 below.]

3. Sociodemographic Profile Table

[Complete the following table by including the most recent census data for your selected county and for the United States, using the QuickFacts function on the www.census.gov website. After clicking on the link, enter the county and state. This will automatically generate a table of census data for the county.]

[Note: If data are not available for a county or U.S. population characteristic, please indicate this by writing “N/A.”]

Population Characteristics	County	United States
Population Estimates
Population Percent Change
Percentage of Persons Under the Age of 18
Percentage of Persons 65 Years and Over
Percentage of Women
Percentage White Alone
Percentage Hispanic Alone
Percentage of Foreign-Born Persons
Percentage Language Other Than English Spoken at Home, Percent of Persons Age 5+
Percentage of Houses with a Computer
Percentage with High School Graduate or Higher
Percentage with a Disability, Under Age 65 Years
Percentage without Health Insurance, Under Age 65 Years
Percentage in Civilian Labor Force Age 16 Years+
Percentage of Women in Labor Force Age 16 Years+
Total Healthcare and Social Assistance Revenue
Total Retail Sales Per Capita
Per Capita Income in the Past 12 Months
Percentage of Persons in Poverty
Population Per Square Mile

B. County Health Trends & Rankings

1. Introductory Paragraph

[Replace this text with a brief introduction (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs), including why the data for the seven health trends in part B2 were collected and identifying the source of the data and the methods used to gather the data.]

2. Discussion of Health Trends

[Replace this text with a discussion of the use of trend graphs for the seven major health trends of your choice (e.g., adult obesity, alcohol impaired driving deaths, sexually transmitted infections) that you provide below in part B3. This discussion should tell a story about the health of the county and whether the health trend is improving or getting worse. Include the county’s overall health outcomes and length of life ranking.]

3. Health Trends (Visual Graphs)

[Choose seven major health trends for the county being investigated, and for each of your selected health trends, create a trend graph. Use the County Health Rankings site for charts and data. You may use an existing graph at that site, if available, by clicking on the symbol to generate the graphs for the county and copying and pasting it below the heading into the associated health trend section. Use an application that can take a screenshot (e.g., Jing, Snagit, Snipping Tool) to copy the graph. If you would like to select a health trend that does not have an existing graph on the County Health Rankings site, you must create a trend graph for that health trend, using the data provided in your application of choice (e.g., Excel).

Provide the figure number and a descriptive title at the top of the graph and, below the graph, provide a brief caption of the importance of the health trend on the population.

Provide a description that includes enough information so readers know what they are viewing as shown in the following example of “Adult Obesity”:]

Adult Obesity

[Figure 1: Adult Obesity in Saline County, Nebraska]

[Figure 1: Obesity trend over time, comparing the county, state, and national rates. This graph indicates an increase in county adult obesity rates from 2004 to 2014 of 9% as compared to a 6% increase in the state of Nebraska and a 4% increase nationally.]

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4. Health Trends Discussion

[Replace this text with a brief discussion (suggested length 1–2 paragraphs) of how each of the trend graphs tells a story about the health of the county and how the health aspect is improving, worsening, or remaining stable.]

C. Health Factors

1. Health Factors Table

[Complete the following table by including county, state, and national data.]

[Note: If data are not available for a county, state, or U.S. factor influencing health, please indicate this by writing “N/A.”]

Factors Influencing Health	County Data	Top U.S. Performer	State Data
Percentage Adult Smoking
Percentage with Access to Exercise Opportunities
Percentage Excessive Drinking
Primary Care Physicians (Ratio of Population to 1 Physician)
Percentage with High School Graduation
Percentage with Some College
Percentage with Unemployment
Percentage of Children in Single-Parent Households
Social Associations (Number of Associations Per 10,000)
Violent Crime (Number of Violent Crimes Per 100,000)
Injury Deaths (Number of Injury Deaths Per 10,000)
Percentage of Children Eligible for Free or Reduced-Price Lunch
Air Pollution (Average Daily Density of Air Pollutants)
Percentage with Severe Housing Problems

2. Comparison of Data

[Replace this text with an analysis (suggested length 1–2 paragraphs) of background information on health rankings and the purpose of comparing county data to the top performers (data on those who rank highest). The analysis should include successes and challenges for the county when comparing county data to top U.S. performers and state data.]

[Note: Here are some questions you could address in your response: “Is the county significantly different than your overall state data? What about the top performer data? Is the county close to meeting this target?”]

D. Summary

1. Significant Finding(s)

[The seven health trends in part B highlight opportunities for interventions to improve health outcomes in the county. Replace this text with a summary (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs) of one main health trend from part B that has the potential to be redirected by an action plan to significantly improve community health outcomes in the county. In your summary, you may also include up to three other supplementary health trends that your action plan can leverage to redirect the main health trend.]

2. Action Plan(s)

[Replace this text with the initial steps (suggested length of 1–2 sentences) needed for implementing an action plan to address the main health trend in part D1 and, if supplementary health trends are identified in part D1, any supplementary health trend(s).]

a.  Services or Programs

[Replace this text with a discussion (suggested length of 1–2 sentences) of the services or programs that may be introduced in the county to address the identified health trend(s) from part D2.]

b.  Raise Public Awareness and Promote Public Engagement

[Replace this text by describing three ways (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs) that the advanced professional nurse uses technology to integrate informatics into practice to raise public awareness and promote public engagement in the services or programs from part D2a.]

c.  Monitoring and Evaluating Action Plan

[Replace this text with a summary (suggested length of 1–2 paragraphs) of how the elements of the proposed action plan from parts D2a and D2b will be monitored, including the data collection tools used to gather, evaluate, and visually represent data for analysis and reporting on progress.]

E. Data Sources & Methods

[Replace this text with information on the sources you used to gather data for your data brief. Discuss how each source was collected and provide links to the sites where the source was found.

Note: For examples of the “Data Sources & Methods” section, see the data briefs on the CDC website or the “CDC Data Brief Example” attachment.]