Frequently Asked Questions

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)

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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 locales 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 by contacting us directly.

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 available at the regional, county and zip code levels. Information about Claritas Pop-Facts® Demographics and its methodology can be found on our Help Center.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. The 2030 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. Conduent 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 Health Equity Index is a measure of social determinants correlated with preventable hospitalizations and premature death. Provides analytics around social determinants of health to advance equitable outcomes.

The Food Insecurity Index is a measure of food access correlated with economic and household hardship.

The Mental Health Index is a measure of social determinants of health factors correlated with self-reported poor mental health.

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