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Access to Care
Access to Care Survey July 2022 Report, Community First Hawaiʻi
Every three years, Access to Care conducts a community health needs assessment. This assessment has allowed us to gather information and survey data about the current state of healthcare in Hawaiʻi from healthcare providers, social service professionals, residents, and policymakers, and ensures that those who are historically underrepresented in this kind of research are heard. Findings contribute to a better understanding of the healthcare delivery system in communities across Hawai‘i, and are being used to inform statewide healthcare policies.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
2024 County Health Rankings - Hawaiʻi County
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published annual rankings since 2011. The index ranks counties by health outcomes, and also by health factors that include clinical care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment.
HRSA Area Health Resources Files
Explore Workforce Data
Use this tool to:
- View clinician data by Area Health Resource File year, profession, population, and location
- Analyze specific subsets of the data by filtering various health profession and population demographic subcategories
- View demographic data from the latest Area Health Resources File by profession by state
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
COVID-19 Pandemic Vulnerability Index (PVI)
Opportunity Atlas
Census researchers collaborated with economics from Harvard and Brown Universities to develop the Opportunity Atlas data tool. The data tool uses Census Tract-level data of childrenʻs outcomes in adulthood to trace the roots of outcomes such as poverty and incarceration to the neighborhoods in which children grew up.
Social Vulnerability Index
CDCʻs Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
The U.S. Center for Disease Control publishes an index that measures the resilience of communities when confronted by external stresses on human health, stresses such as natural or human-caused disasters, or disease outbreaks. Reducing social vulnerability can decrease both human suffering and economic loss.
Opportunity Index
The Opportunity Index is an annual report developed by Opportunity Nation, a campaign of the Forum for Youth Investment, and Child Trends. The Index provides data that show what opportunity looks like in the United States.
The multidimensional nature of the Opportunity Index provides a broad picture of opportunity that goes beyond economics alone. The 2018 Index includes indicators within four dimensions of community well-being:
- Economy
- Education
- Health
- Community
U.S. Census Community Resiliance Estimates
Click here for interactive map of Hawaii County Census Tracts with population having three or more resiliance risk factors.
Community resilience is the capacity of individuals and households to absorb, endure, and recover from the health, social, and economic impacts of a disaster such as a hurricane or pandemic. When disasters occur, recovery depends on the community’s ability to withstand the effects of the event. In order to facilitate disaster preparedness, the Census Bureau has developed new small area estimates, identifying communities where resources and information may effectively mitigate the impact of disasters.
Variation in individual and household characteristics are determining factors in the differential impact of a disaster. Some groups are less likely to have the capacity and resources to overcome the obstacles presented during a hazardous event. Resilience estimates can aid stakeholders and public health officials in modeling these differential impacts and developing plans to reduce a disaster’s potential effects.
Individual and household characteristics from the 2018 American Community Survey (ACS) were modeled, in combination with publicly-available data from the 2018 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), to provide tract and county level estimates.
Risk Factors include:
- Income-to-Poverty Ratio
- Single or zero caregiver household - only one or no individuals living in the household who are 18-64
- Unit level crowding - persons per room over 0.5
- Communications barrier - linguistically isolated or no one in the household with a high school diploma
- No employed persons
- Disability posing constraint to significant life activity
- No health insurance coverage
- Health conditions such as serious heart conditions, diabetes, and emphysema or current asthma.
See Census Technical Documentation for complete details.
