Description
Population health in the City of New Haven, including health care access, health outcomes, and mortality, is influenced by socioeconomic disparities. These disparities exist on both the individual and neighborhood scale, and across demographics such as age, sex, race, and ethnicity. Continued analyses to understand these disparities is imperative to elucidate public health concerns and to design and to implement appropriate initiatives and interventions. The objectives of this study were as follows: To measure the leading causes of death, average life expectancy, and premature death in New Haven using mortality data and stratifying by key variables including age, sex, race, and ethnicity, and to characterize the relationships between mortality, geographic location, and other demographic variables.
Publication Date
Spring 2018
Keywords
public health, population health, mortality, health inequality, mapping, New Haven, Connecticut
Disciplines
Public Health
Recommended Citation
Olson, Natalie; Chang, Wei; Janvrin, Miranda; Park, Carolyn; Qiu, Chengcheng; Weeks, Brian; Logan, Brooke; Kennedy, Byron; Finnie, Sheridan; and Humphries, Debbie, "Measuring & Mapping Mortality in the Elm City: Identifying and Addressing Health Inequities in New Haven with Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL) and Other Health Determinants" (2018). Practice Based Community Health Research Reports. 19.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysph_pbchrr/19