Monitor New and Emerging Issues

Notes

In Swain County, the top 10 causes of mortality have shifted so that cerebrovascular disease is now the third leading cause of death, and diabetes the fifth. Data obtained for this analysis originates from the 2015 Swain County Community Health Assessment (CHA), which investigates the years 2011-2015 whereas previously current data focuses on the years 2009-2013. Despite this three year overlap, Swain County Health Department believes statistical shifts to be relevant and intends to put more resources into education concerning diseases of the heart and their prevention, with a focus on modifiable risk factors. These are issues that were not identified as priorities in the 2016 CHA but have recently been identified, have increased severity, and had a large impact on the community.

The new or emerging issues in our community that were not identified as priorities in our 2015 CHA include:

Diseases of the Heart
Cerebrovascular Disease
Diabetes Prevention has already been a focus in multiple programs, but severity has increased

Swain County's Top Mortality Causes from 2011-2015

			# OF DEATHS	DEATH RATE PER 100,000
	RANK	CAUSE OF DEATH:	899	1269.5
TOTAL - ALL AGES	0	TOTAL DEATHS --- ALL CAUSES	899	1269.5
	1	Diseases of the heart	184	259.8
	2	Cancer - All Sites	180	254.2
	3	Chronic lower respiratory diseases	62	87.5
	4	Cerebrovascular disease	55	77.7
	5	Diabetes mellitus	50	70.6
	6	Other Unintentional injuries	33	46.6
	7	Alzheimer's disease	32	45.2
	8	Pneumonia & influenza	24	33.9
	9	Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, & nephrosis	20	28.2
	10	Chronic liver disease & cirrhosis	18	25.4

Notes

[Guidance: These are issues not identified as priorities in the CHA that have been noticed, have increased in severity, or had a large impact on the community.

This topic is pretty broad and many issues can fit here: natural disasters, disease epidemics, demographic shifts, youth issues, increase in unemployment rates, an at-risk population or area identified, etc.]

These are the new or emerging issues in our community that were not identified as priorities in our CHA.

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