Miami-Dade Matters :: Better health through community

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INITIATIVE OF:

PRESENTING SPONSOR

Health Foundation of South Florida

GOLD SPONSORS

Miami-Dade County
Baptist Health South Florida

SILVER SPONSORS

Allegany Franciscan Ministries, Inc.
sanofi aventis

BRONZE SPONSORS

Miami-Dade County Health Department
Miami Children’s Hospital
The Children’s Trust
BlueCross BlueShield of Florida

COMMUNITY SNAPSHOT

Hospital Admissions: Asthma

Violent Crime Rate

Teen Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Low Birth Weight

Colon Cancer Screening

Public Transportation Commuters

	Compare by Region: The colored gauge gives a visual representation of how your community is doing in comparison to other communities. The three-colored dial represents the distribution of values from the reporting regions (e.g. counties in the state) ordered from those doing the best to those doing the worst (sometimes lower values are better and in other cases higher values are better). From that distribution, the green represents the top 50th percentile, the yellow represents the 25th to 50th percentile, and the red represents the "worst" quartile.
	Compare by Average: This gauge shows how the Miami-Dade County value compares with the median or mean value for all counties in the state (or all US counties). The gauge is blue and white when being higher (or lower) is not necessarily good or bad and is multi-colored when being higher (or lower) is good or bad.
	Compare by Time Period: This gauge shows whether the Miami-Dade County value is increasing or decreasing over time. A green arrow means the value is improving and a red arrow means the value is getting worse. The = (equal) sign means that there is not a significant increase or decrease since the last measurement.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not the Miami-Dade County value meets a specific target. The Miami-Dade County value is represented by the left bar and the target value by the right bar.
	Target: This gauge shows whether or not a specific target is met. A green check means the target is met and a red "X" means the target is not met.

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IN THE NEWS

Local Feature Story

Jackson Health System getting fewer Medicaid patients
An unanticipated drop in Medicaid patients could hurt Jackson Health System, which is still in financial straits.... Read the full story

About This Site

Welcome to Miami Matters, an initiative of the Health Council of South Florida!

Miami Matters is a dynamic, interactive web-based information sytem that provides easy to understand health, environmental and other quality of life indicators for Miami-Dade County. Here you can connect to promising practices, local resources and information that encourages and promotes informed community action. Miami Matters seeks to provide a road map for collaborative community improvement by highlighting where we have been, where we are and where we need to go.

We invite you to use the site as a tool for community assessment, strategic planning, collaboration and advocacy.

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TOPIC CENTERS

Health

Economy

Education

Government & Politics

Natural Environment

Public Safety

Transportation