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Cleveland Office of Minority Health Health Status Report, Spring 2015 Cleveland Office of Minority Health Health Status Report, Spring 2015 Announcements & Upcoming Events April 1, 2015 Minority Health Month Kickoff April 11, 2015 Community Health and Wellness Festival, McCafferty Health Center April 18, 2015 Community Health and Wellness Festival, J Glenn Smith Health Center May, 2015 Cleveland Office of Minority Health Advisory Council Meeting, University Hospital For other dates and announcements contact: Shayla L Davis, Cleveland Office of Minority Health Director at 216-664-3052 or by email [email protected]. Numbers Never Lie Heart Disease Death Rate, City of Overall Heart Disease Death Rates Cleveland, 2010 Source: Cuyahoga County Board of Health 300 400 250 268.3 300 200 211.5 300.8 150 196.4 200 244.6 184.9 100 100 125.4 75.9 50 0 White Non Black Non Hispanic Other 0 Hispanic Hispanic Cuyahoga Cleveland Ohio Nation County COMH Spotlight: Heart Disease Mortality Rate Our quarterly report for Spring 2015 is focusing on the rate of death due to heart disease. Rate of death is the number of deaths per 100,000 people. Overall, Cleveland’s heart disease death rate is higher than the county, state, and national rate. Neighborhoods with the darker shades of red are the ones with highest rates of death due to heart disease. What You Should Know About Heart Disease Definitions and Key Terms Mortality Rate is the same as Rate of Death (death rate.) Heart disease is an umbrella term for any type of disorder that affects the heart. Heart disease means the same as cardiac disease but not cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease refers to disorders of the blood vessels and heart, while heart disease refers to just the heart. Cleveland Department of Public Health Office of Minority Health (216) 664-3052 Office of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Epidemiology (216) 664-3747 Version Date: 3/26/2015 Made possible by The Ohio Commission On Minority Health Heart Disease Mortality Rates, by Neighborhood with Area Hospitals, City of Cleveland, 2008-2012 North Shore Collinwood Collinwood-Nottingham Euclid-Green Glenville St.Clair-Superior Goodrich-Kirtland PkHough v® Downtown v®Unv®iversity Fairfax v® Central Edgewater Cuyahoga Valley v® Buckeye-Woodhill Detroit ShorewayOhio City Buckeye-Shaker Square Cudell Tremont Kinsman Clark-Fulton Mount Pleasant West BoulevardStockyards v® Broadway-Slavic Village Brooklyn Centre v®Kamm's Jefferson Union-Miles Lee-Harvard Lee-Seville Bellaire-Puritas Old Brooklyn Hopkins Whites Low (Green): Kamm's, Old Brooklyn, Glenville, Central, Kinsman, Buckeye-Shaker Square, Lee-Harvard High (Yellow): Bellaire-Puritas, Cudell, Detroit-Shoreway, Stockyards, Hough, Fairfax, Broadway-Slavic Village North Shore Collinwood Collinwood-Nottingham Euclid-Green Glenville St.Clair-Superior Goodrich-Kirtland PkHough v® Downtown v®Unv®iversity Fairfax v® Central Edgewater Cuyahoga Valley v® Buckeye-Woodhill Detroit ShorewayOhio City Buckeye-Shaker Square Cudell Tremont Kinsman Clark-Fulton Mount Pleasant West BoulevardStockyards v® Broadway-Slavic Village Brooklyn Centre v®Kamm's Jefferson Union-Miles Lee-Harvard Lee-Seville Bellaire-Puritas Old Brooklyn Hopkins Maps are based on average annual age-adjusted Blacks heart disease mortality rate over the five year period in the City of Cleveland's Statistical Planning Areas (SPA) Low (Green): Jefferson, Union-Miles, Cuyahoga Valley, as neighborhoods. Lee-Harvard, Buckeye-Shaker Square, Age-adjusted to 2000 U.S. Standard Population Collinwood-Nottingham, Euclid-Green Data Source: Ohio Department of Health Heart Disease deaths defined as ICD-10 codes: I00-I09, I11, I13, I20-I51. High (Yellow): Bellaire-Puritas, Cudell, West Boulevard, Version Date: 3/30/2015 Stockyards, Brooklyn Centre, Clark-Fulton, Ohio City, Goodrich-Kirtland Park, North Shore Collinwood.
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