2 Methodology

The Healthy Connecticut 2025: State Health Assessment was ultimately guided by Connecticut’s vision for health equity. The health indicators selected to be presented in the assessment reflect the social determinants of health that are impacting residents and highlight where health is experienced differently based on geographic or demographic characteristics.

The development of this assessment incorporated the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) framework and Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards and measures. A cross-disciplinary team of internal and external stakeholders was engaged to develop a vision for Healthy Connecticut 2025 and to prioritize a list of health indicators for inclusion in the report. In addition, community members were provided opportunities to contribute to the development of the assessment through surveys and focus groups, and finally through a public comment period.

2.1 Engagement Process

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2.1.1 Community Survey

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These populations of focus included:

Parents of children with special healthcare needs
People receiving services from the Connecticut Department of Social Sevices
Patients of Deferally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)

2.1.2 Community Focus Groups

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Aging Adults
Black/African-American Women
Families Affected by Alzheimer’s
Families Affected by Autism
Families of Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Formerly Incarcerated Persons
Hispanic Community
Immigrants and Refugees
LGBTQ Aging Adults
LGBTQ Younger Adults
Veterans and their Families

2.1.3 Public and Partner Input

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2.1.4 Assets and Resources

As CT DPH teams gathered and analyzed data for the assessment, they also compiled a list of programmatic and state-wide assets. Additionally, through an analysis of local community health assessments and hospital health needs assessments, and partner input, community assets were added to develop a comprehensive list. A high level description of community assets and resources is available in Appendix B. A more detailed listing of identified assets, including the analysis of the local community health and hospital health assessments is contained in a companion document “Assets and Resources” available on the Coalition website. This document will serve as a dynamic and continuously updated resource for mapping assets to intentionally developed collaborative strategies.

2.2 Kinds of Data Presented in the Assessment

The State Health Assessment presents many kinds of data visualized in graphs, tables, and maps. Here are some examples of data types included in this report and what they mean.

Important

Please note we can do much prettier tables in code, and in fact I’ll insist on it, but for demonstration purposes, we’ll use straight markdown.

Data Type	Answers the Question	Definition	Example
Census	How many people are/ have ____?	An official count of a population, typically recording various details of individuals	A total of 3.5 million people live in Connecticut.
Prevalence	What percentage of people have ____?	Describes how many people have a disease or condition among an entire group of people. Often you will see this as a rate or percentage.	About 200 of every 100,000 people has diabetes.
Incidence	How many new cases of ____ happened in a period of time?	This refers to the number of individuals who develop a specific disease or experience a specific health-related event during a particular time period (such as a month or year)	The incidence of infection went down from X cases per 10,000 to just Y cases.

2.3 Limitations of assessment

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2.4 Connecticut Maps

Below is an example map made using the ggplot2 package. ggplot2 are static and by keeping them static, this book can be converted into multiple different formats like pdf, word etc… If users choose to forgo those options and stick with this as primarily a website and .html, than interactive maps/visuals can be added as well. In my opinion, I think this document should stay static, and then other tools/platforms (like CT Open Data Portal) can tap into the same data streams and they can offer deeper interactive dives into the data.