Public Health Data
NEW! Years of Healthy Life and Life Expectancy: Pierce County. Did you know that from 1990 to 2009, the average life expectancy at birth for Pierce County residents has increased by 3.1 years? Read this report and learn the difference between years of healthy life and life expectancy. Also, stay tuned! We are redesigning our data web page to make accessing the data you need simpler. We will send subscribers an alert when the page is up and will be asking for feedback on the new design.Click here to receive email notification when public health data are updated or new reports are added to our site. Please select "Public Health Data Updates" from the list and any other subjects you may be interested in.
A broad scope of information is used to guide and evaluate our efforts to safeguard and enhance the health of Pierce County's communities. Much of this information is gained through the collection, analysis, and interpretation of public health data. Useful in tasks such as community needs assessment, grant writing, program planning and evaluation, and guiding public health policy—public health data are essential to the work of the Health Department and of potentially great value to our community partners.
Links to the left are organized around several key areas of public health data. Each link will lead to a variety of resources, including: selected county data, published reports, and/or additional sources of information at the county, state and national level.
The Pierce County Health Indicators help measure the health of Pierce County residents and inform the programs and policies of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and its community partners. Along with the Local Public Health Indicators, these health indicators provide a snapshot of health status, health behavior, and public health system performance at the local level. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department uses these data to help evaluate its programs and decide where to invest limited public health resources to improve community health. The indicators can also provide other community health organizations and agencies with some of the information they need to develop effective programs and to gauge system progress in meeting specific health outcomes.
2008 Community Assessment CD-ROM
This CD-ROM contains a variety of public health data and information including qualitative community health assessments, birth and death data, population estimates, and communicable disease reports. Data are available for Pierce County and each of its county council districts.
To request a copy of this CD-ROM, get help in utilizing data presented here, or obtain additional health data most appropriate to your needs, please contact the Office of Assessment, Planning and Improvement at 253-798-7668 or oapi@tpchd.org
