Connected Terms: • Socioeconomic Factors • Income • Poverty
This link is to the Marion County Public Health Department's comprehensive community health assessment (CHA) report on the chronic and infectious disease, environmental health, built environment and social determinates of health affecting Marion County residents 18-34 years of age. For the complete CHA report (all age groups), please refer to http://marionhealth.org/mcphd-community-health-assessment-2014/ instead of the above link.
This link is to the Marion County Public Health Department's comprehensive community health assessment (CHA) report on the chronic and infectious disease, environmental health, built environment and social determinates of health affecting Marion County residents 12-17 years of age. For the complete CHA report (all age groups), please refer to http://marionhealth.org/mcphd-community-health-assessment-2014/ instead of the above link.
This link is to the Marion County Public Health Department's comprehensive community health assessment (CHA) report on the chronic and infectious disease, environmental health, built environment and social determinates of health affecting Marion County residents 5-11 years of age. For the complete CHA report (all age groups), please refer to http://marionhealth.org/mcphd-community-health-assessment-2014/ instead of the above link.
This link is to the Marion County Public Health Department's comprehensive community health assessment (CHA) report on maternal, infant, and young child (0-4 years of age) health. For the complete CHA report (all age groups), please refer to http://marionhealth.org/mcphd-community-health-assessment-2014/ instead of the above link.
Substance use continues to be a major public health concern, negatively impacting a variety of health, legal, and social outcomes. Nearly one-fourth of Hoosiers ages 12 and older engaged in binge drinking in the past month and one-tenth used an illicit substance. Furthermore, 7% of Indiana residents met criteria for substance use disorder (SUD) in the past year and 6.5% needed but did not receive treatment for their SUD.
Of particular concern is polysubstance use, or the use of two or more substances over a defined period, simultaneously or at differing times, for recreational purposes. In over 70% of admissions to substance use treatment in Indiana, the use of multiple substances was indicated, with 30% reporting the use of two drugs and nearly 41% reporting the use of three drugs.
During state fiscal year 2018, a total of 10,483 children were removed from their parents by the Department of Child Services in Indiana; almost two-thirds (64%) of these removals were due to parental alcohol and/or drug use.
This document provides information and data on demographics, health, economy, and the social and physical environment of Marion County.
County health rankings provides the percentage of adults reporting fair or poor health (age-adjusted), by county. Counties can be compared and contrasted with easy data and map export.
A report to the Community regarding the Marion County Public Health Department delivering on all of the ten essential services of public health. These services are: monitoring health, diagnosing and investigating health hazards, informing and educating about health issues, mobilizing partnerships, developing health policies, enforcing environmental laws, access to care, assuring a competent public health workforce, evaluating health services, and researching public health concerns.
The percentage of the population living below Federal Poverty Guidline is significantly higher for Marion County than it is for Indiana and the U.S. Racial minorities and individuals with low educational attainment experience a disproportionate burden of poverty in Marion County, DR3780.
Indiana University's Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators online tool (SAVI) has compared rising poverty from 1970 to 2017 in Indianapolis to other similar cities in the nation.
United Way has conducted research looking at state, national, and county data for 2016. According to their website, it looks at measuring and understanding the struggles of the growing number of households in our communities that do not earn enough to afford basic necessities, a population called ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed). According to this research, 29.2% of Marion County households do not earn enough to afford basic necessities.
The USDA Food Access Research Atlas:
According to Indiana University's Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators online tool (SAVI), an estimated 200,000 Indianapolis residents live in food deserts in 2015.
Summary report on results of the 2012 Marion County Community Health Assessment (CHA) survey.
About 90% of primary and secondary syphilis cases in Marion County are in men. Case rates of primary and secondary syphilis for men who have sex with men (MSM) have remained much higher than for men who have sex with women only (MSW). In 2012, the estimated rate for MSM was about 78 times higher than for MSW, and in 2016, the estimated rate for MSM was about 80 times higher than for MSW. [DR3530]
The maternal smoking rate among Marion County residents was highest among whites, followed by black and Hispanic residents (DR3484).
This graph shows the percentage of mothers who smoked during pregnancy by race/ethnicity from 2007-2016. During this period, white residents had the highest prevalence of maternal smoking, followed by black residents. Maternal smoking steadily declined during this period, DR3484.
This graph illustrates the percentage of mothers who initiated prenatal care in the first trimester from 2007-2016. During this period, non-Hispanic white women were more likely than their minority peers to have received prenatal care during the first trimester of their pregnancy (DR3484).
This graph show the percentage of very low birth weight births (less than 1,500 grams) in Marion County, by race/ethnicity, from 2007-2016 (DR3484).
This graph shows the percentage of Marion County mothers who breast fed upon hospital release, by race/ethnicity, from 2007-2016 (DR3484).
