ARKANSAS STATE HEALTH ASSESSMENT (SHA) 2020 SCORECARD

The Arkansas State Health Assessment (SHA) 2020 Scorecard is the electronic companion of the book with the same name published in December 2020. Both Scorecard and the book are updated and upgraded editions of the 2013 publication “Arkansas’s Big Health Problems and How We Plan to Solve Them”.

The purpose of SHA is to provide comprehensive data on the health of Arkansans including risk factors contributing to their poor health outcomes. In addition to data, the book also identifies public health, health care, and other resources available in the community to help improve the health status of Arkansans. The SHA Scorecard is also the foundation for the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP), which serves as a blueprint for actions to be taken to address the issues identified in the SHA.

The Scorecard primarily presents data in graphics and sometimes tabular formats, highlighting multiple year trends of behaviors, diseases, and deaths. Since the Scorecard does not provide narrative and the illustrations contain layers of information, two tools have been developed to enable users to navigate the Scorecard and gain most out of the information. A brief PowerPoint presentation provides basic guidance on how to navigate through any Scorecard, while a more detailed video provides more comprehensive guidance on how to navigate through the SHA Scorecard specifically.

The scorecard will be regularly updated to demonstrate changes that may occur in the health of Arkansans in future.