Frequently Asked Questions

This site is intended for anyone interested in community health and community health data.

To provide information to a variety of stakeholders so that they may work to improve the health and quality of life in their community. We hope that individuals look to this platform as a rich source of data and information about their community.

Visit About Us section for more information on Nevada Tomorrow and its work in Northern Nevada.

The website is operated as a partnership between Truckee Meadows Tomorrow, Renown Health, and Conduent Community Health Solutions (aka Conduent Healthy Communities Institute). The Conduent Community Health Solutions mission is to improve the health and environmental sustainability of cities, counties and communities worldwide. To learn more visit https://www.conduent.com/community-population-health/.

Recommended citation of website: 
Conduent Healthy Communities Institute. (Date of publication, if available). Community Dashboard.  Title of web site. Retrieved date. Retrieved from URL.

If referencing a specific data indicator:
Source or agency name. (Date/dates). Specific data source, if available (e.g. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2007). Web site name. Retrieve date. Retrieved from URL.  

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Nevada Tomorrow hopes to begin including rural Nevada counties in 2020. For more information about other Quality of Life and Community Health Indicator initiatives in Nevada, please visit:

• Healthy Southern Nevada  (Clark County)

Visit Contact Us to connect with Nevada Tomorrow staff.

 

An indicator describes an aspect of the population used to measure health or quality of life. Health indicators may include measurements of illness or disease, as well as behaviors and actions related to health.

The types of available comparisons depend on the source and methodology of the data. If the data comes from a national source collected at the county level, your county’s value will typically be compared to a distribution of all U.S. counties or to a national average, as well as a distribution of your state's counties and your state's average value. If the data are collected at the state level, your county’s value will be compared to a distribution of all counties or county-equivalents in the state or compared to a state average or value. If the distribution or average data is not available, your county value will typically be compared to the Prior Value. Sometimes there will also be a Healthy People 2020 target for a comparison, when the definitions of the indicator align with those national goals.

Please visit this Help Center article for a description on the gauges and icons on the site.

A description of the gauges is also available in the LEGEND and can be viewed by clicking on “see the legend” on the left-hand side of all data pages.

All of the indicators are available from the Nevada Tomorrow Data Dashboards page. On this page, you can search for an indicator by topic under the “Search by Indicator” drop down, or you can search all indicators for a specific location under the “Search by Location” drop down.

To find data for a specific location, go to the Nevada Tomorrow Data Dashboards Page, then select your desired location from the search by location dropdown. The dashboard will populate with all of the indicators on the site for the selected location.

Select data for some counties may not be displayed because they are unavailable, or because the rates are considered to be unstable. Unstable rates are unreliable due to small sample sizes

The data are presented by Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) and Nevada Tomorrow/Truckee Meadows Tomorrow according to how they are collected and made publicly available. Zip code-level data are not available for many indicators featured on the site.

The data are presented by Healthy Communities Institute and Nevada Tomorrow/Truckee Meadows Tomorrow according to how they are collected and made publicly available. Subgroup-level data are not available for many indicators featured on the site.

Age-adjustment is a statistical process applied to rates of disease or death that allows communities with different age structures to be compared. This is important because most diseases and health outcomes occur at different rates in different age groups. For example, cancer is more commonly associated with older populations.

The comparison to a prior value shows an equal icon when the confidence intervals overlap. Not all indicators have confidence intervals, but when they are available, they are taken into consideration in determining if there has been a statistically significant change from the previous measurement period. Click here for additional information on confidence intervals and statistical significance.

Many of the indicators are updated on an annual basis, although there are several indicators that are updated monthly. If you see something that is out of date, please let us know.

Conduent HCI strives to provide high quality, publicly accessible data, available at the county level. Indicators on this site were chosen based on the following criteria:

• Publicly available data (at the county level) 
• Strong likelihood that the indicator will be replicated again in the future 
• Validity of data source (appropriate methodology) 
• Corresponding Healthy People 2020 goals

Conduent HCI is always on the lookout for new, reliable data sources. If you would like to recommend data, send us Feedback. Sending your information to us does not guarantee that we will incorporate it on the website.

 

You can make requests for specific data needs using the Data Request form. Simply fill out the requested information and email the completed form to us at info@truckeemeadowstomorrow.org.

On this page, you can explore data by keyword, indicator name or location.  You can also find links to build a custom dashboard and to many of our speciality dashboards. 

This page shows a list of all of the indicators on the site and the level of data at which they are available. The list is organized by topic and shows if data are available at the county, region, zip code, or census tract level.

This tool allows you to view indicator breakout information such as age, gender, race/ethnicity. The disparities dashboard is organized by primary category (health, education, public safety) and then sub-categories (cancer, diabetes, school environment, crime).

This section of the site offers demographic data on population, race, ethnicity, age, sex, households/income, housing, education and employment.  The data are Nielsen Claritas annual estimates and are available at the regional, county and zip code levels. 

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. The 2020 Tracker compares your community’s health to the national objectives and whether or not your community has met the objectives or not. Learn More

Promising Practices are best practices related to health or quality of life that have been found to be useful in improving the health of a community in some way. Healthy Communities Institute has identified a wealth of Promising Practices from around the country and internationally. They are a helpful way to identify strategies for making improvements in your community without reinventing the wheel. Healthy Communities Institute makes distinctions between practices that have been thoroughly and scientifically reviewed (Evidence Based) from those that have undergone less rigorous (Effective Practice), or perhaps no evaluation (Good Idea). See Ranking Methodology.

Report Builder: This tool can be used to create a customized report that will contain content from this site that you can either save or share with others based on keywords or topics of interest.

The SocioNeeds Index is a measure of socioeconomic need that is correlated with poor health outcomes. It is displayed on an interactive map where visitors can identify which zip codes in their community have the highest level of socioeconomic need compared to their region and the United States.

 

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