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Adults with Diabetes

Daily Particle Pollution

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Hospital Admissions: Adult Asthma

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.

This gauge shows how the County: Miami-Dade 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.

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In The News

Feature Story

Mental health system: Judge getting cost-saving results
As a county judge, Steven Leifman spends every day grappling with a problem most people prefer to forget - trying to heal the mental health system.

He sees its failures every day. About 30 percent of women in Florida's prisons have a serious mental illness; about 14 percent of men do, he says. Nationwide, the figures are much the same.... Read the full story

Local News

Initiative wants to make Little Havana more pedestrian friendly

House Panel Rejects Medicaid Expansion

Florida Gov. Rick Scott supports Medicaid expansion

State News

Kids' fast-food meals still mired in fat and salt

Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities

Legislature Creates Panel on 'ObamaCare'

2013 Community Health Needs Assessment Household Survey

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

Click here to view the Miami Matters- Measuring What Matters in Miami-Dade County Community Health Report Card, 2010 Update

Miami Matters is a dynamic, interactive web-based information system 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.