HPIO 2017 Health Value Dashboard
Population Health Metric Selection Workgroup
Pre-meeting materials
The purpose of our conference calls will be to review the list of metrics in the Population
Health domain from the 2014 Dashboard and identify any needed changes. Keep in mind
that the Dashboard is intended to assess progress toward improved health value in Ohio over
time. For this reason, metrics included in the Dashboard should be as consistent as possible
across editions. We will not increase the total number of metrics (any new metrics will need to
replace existing metrics).
To prepare for these meetings, please:
1. Familiarize yourself with the list of metrics in the Population Health domain.
2. Review the metric selection criteria and the “bike rack/wish list”.
3. Review the brief inventory of recommended population-level metrics below (from the
Improving population health planning in Ohio report). Consider: Are there any metrics
listed here that are not in the Dashboard but you think should be—specifically for the
Population Health domain?
4. Review the conceptual framework stages in the life course diagram below. Consider: Do
you think the current set of metrics reflects a good balance across the life course? If not,
what’s missing in the Population Health domain?
5. Review the changes in national scorecards/rankings below. Consider: Do you think we
should make any of the same changes?
Our discussion during the conference calls will be to answer the following question:
6. Given the above considerations, are there any metrics you recommend we add to the
Dashboard for this domain? If yes,
a. Identify which existing metric the new metric should replace.
b. “Make the case” for the metric using the selection criteria.
c. Provide a link to where we can find the state-level data for the metric.
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Brief inventory of recommended population-level metrics
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Stages in the life course
Changes in national scorecards/rankings
Metrics listed here have had some kind of change in America’s Health Rankings or other national
scorecards/rankings. Note that 2016 County Health Rankings updated metric list will be announced
soon.
Population Health National Scorecard Metric Changes, 2015
Subdomain
Metric
Metric description
Health
behaviors
Adult binge
drinking
Percent of adults who
self-report having 4 or
more (women) or 5 or
more (men) alcoholic
beverages on at least 1
occasion in the past 30
days
Change or Deletion
(AHR, CWF, RWJF,
CHR)
AHR 2015: Excessive
Drinking replaced
Binge Drinking as a
core measure, and
Binge Drinking and
Chronic Drinking are
now supplemental
measures. Excessive
Drinking is a
composite metric
that includes Binge
Drinking and
Chronic Drinking.
Note: This is the
Related New
Metrics
AHR 2015: Chronic
drinking: Percent of
adults who selfreport consuming 8
or more [women]
or 15 or more
[men] alcoholic
beverages per
week (men). BRFSS
2014.
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same measured
used by CHR 2015.
Health
behaviors
NA (no related
Dashboard
metric)
Conditions
and
diseases
Youth obesity
Conditions
and
diseases
NA (no overall
injury metric in
Pop H domain,
only overdose
deaths; See
Prevention
and PH
domain for falls
and distracted
driving)
Overall health
status
Overall
health and
wellbeing
Percent of high school
students who are obese
(grades 9-12)
Percent of adults that
report fair or poor health
AHR=America’s Health rankings
RWFJ DataHub (our
secondary source)
has not updated the
data since the 2014
Dashboard.
AHR 2015:
Insufficient sleep:
Percent of adults
who self-report
sleeping fewer
than 7 hours in a
24-hour period, on
average. BRFSS
2014.
AHR 2015: Injury
deaths: Number of
deaths due to
injury per 100,000
population.
National Vital
Statistics System,
2011 to 2013.
AHR 2015 now
reports the inverse
metric, High Health
Status: Percent of
adults who selfreport that their
health is very good
or excellent. BRFSS
2014.
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