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COMMUNITY DASHBOARD

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Pedestrian Death Rate

Commute Time

Prostate Cancer Incidence Rate

Children in Poverty

Lung Cancer Death Rate

Fitness Facilities

The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.

This gauge shows how the Dallas Community value compares with the median or mean value for all counties in the state (or all US counties). The gauge is blue and white when being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad and is multi-colored when being higher (or lower) is good or bad.

IN THE NEWS

Local Feature Story

Promoting Health and Wellness Through Community-Campus Partnerships Conference: April 11-13, 2012
Our health and well-being is not only influenced by individual traits and personal choices, but also by many social, economic, and environmental factors. Dr. Richard S. Kurz, Dean of UNTHSC School of Public Health, notes that "the health of the American people and the citizens of the world has many determinants, including the environments in which they live and work, their own behavior, their social and economic status, the structure of their families and relationships, and the health services to which they have access and actually use."
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Local News

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5th Annual TAHIT Symposium on Language Access in Healthcare

National News

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About This Site

Healthy North Texas is a web-based source of community health and population data. We invite planners, policy makers, and community members to use the site as a tool for community assessment, strategic planning, identifying best practice for improvement, collaboration and advocacy.

Get started on Healthy North Texas!

Compare more than 100 local health and quality of life indicators with other Texas counties, the state, the nation, and national targets.
Learn about promising practices on a variety of topics that affect community health
Submit a promising practice
Use the Report Assistant to create quick reports and summaries

If you are interested in participating in the Healthy North Texas community health improvement process, please contact us at communityhealth@dfwhcfoundation.org.

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