TY  - JOUR
AU  - Whitley, Jessica
AU  - Hirsch, Jana A.
AU  - Moore, Kari A.
AU  - Melly, Steven J.
AU  - Rollins, Heather
AU  - Washington, Raynard
PY  - 2021
TI  - Constructing Within-City Neighborhood Health Rankings in Philadelphia by Using Data From the 500 Cities Project
T2  - Preventing Chronic Disease
JO  - Prev Chronic Dis
SP  - E48
VL  - 18
CY  - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
N2  - INTRODUCTION  Profound geographic disparities in health exist in many US cities. Most reporting on these disparities is based on predetermined administrative districts that may not reflect true neighborhoods. We undertook a ranking project to describe health at the neighborhood level and used Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as our case study. METHODS  To create neighborhood health rankings, we first divided the city into neighborhoods according to groups of contiguous census tracts. Modeling our ranking methods and indicators on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings, we gathered census tract-level data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 500 Cities Project and local sources and aggregated these data, as needed, to each neighborhood. We assigned composite scores and rankings for both health outcomes and health factors to each neighborhood. RESULTS  Scores for health outcomes and health factors were highly correlated. We found clusters of neighborhoods with low rankings in Philadelphia's northern, lower northeastern, western, and southwestern regions. We disseminated information on rankings throughout the city, including through a comprehensive webpage, public communication, and a museum exhibit. CONCLUSION  The Philadelphia neighborhood health rankings were designed to be accessible to people unfamiliar with public health, facilitating education on drivers of health in communities. Our methods can be used as a model for other cities to create and communicate data on within-city geographic health disparities.
SN  - 1545-1151
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd18.200584
DO  - 10.5888/pcd18.200584
ER  -