Durham Health Data Archives

This section provides earlier State of the County Health reports, Community Health Assessments, and editions of Partnership publications.

State of the County's Health Reports

Community Health Assessments

2017 Community Health Assessment Report & Executive Summaries
The goal of the 2017 Community Health Assessment (CHA) is to provide a comprehensive compilation of valid and reliable information about the health of the Durham community. The CHA process is led by the Partnership for a Healthy Durham, Durham County Department of Public Health and Duke Health. the 2017 report includes 14 chapters with 48 sections on various community health topics. Ninety-five writers from our community partners contributed to the report. If you don't have time to read the full report, the 2017 CHA Executive Summary is available in English and Spanish.
2017 Community Health Assessment Listening Session Summaries
The results from each priority (access to care, affordable housing, poverty, mental health, obesity, diabetes and food access) is summarized in PowerPoint slides.

2016 Durham County Community Health Assessment Survey Results
2016 Durham County Community Health Opinion Survey Infographics
2014 Durham County Community Health Assessment
The goal of the 2014 Community Health Assessment was to provide a comprehensive report of reliable information about the health of the Durham community. There are 13 chapters with 50 sections on various community health topics. You must use have Adobe Reader to properly view the health assessment document. The report contains the executive summary, community surveys and community survey and listening session results.The 2014 Community Health Assessment executive summary is available in English and Spanish. The document outlines the key findings found in the full report.

2013 Community Health Assessment Survey Results
As part of the 2014 Community Health Assessment, volunteers from many organizations in Durham County participated in a survey of Durham County residents. Data from a random sample of Durham County households and information on survey methods are available for full county sample and high proportion Latino census block survey.
2011 Community Health Assessment
2007 Community Health Assessment
2003 Community Health Assessment

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

2015 YRBS Report

The 2015 YRBS Report details the results of the survey administered to Durham Public School middle and high school students in 2015. The goal of this survey is to assess health risk behaviors that can contribute to injury and leading causes of death among the adolescent population.

2013
The results of the 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) of middle and high school students in Durham Public Schools are have been analyzed. A report (with both middle and high school data) and a data report containing all results are available.

2013 YRBS Report 2013 YRBS Middle School data tables 2013 YRBS High School data tables

Results from prior years are also available

2011 YRBS High School Brief 2011 YRBS Middle School Brief 2011 YRBS full report

2009 YRBS High School Brief 2009 YRBS Middle School Brief 2009 YRBS Full Report

2007 YRBS Full Report

Infographics on Top Health Priorities

2018

Substance Use and Abuse in Durham County

These reports are produced by the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, with sponsorship in 2013 by Durham Together for Resilient Youth.

2013 report 2010 report 2006 report

Young Children's Health Age 0-5

Durham's Partnership for Children has released Healthy & Ready: Assessing Children's Health Status Upon Public School Entry, which summarizes data from the Kindergarten Health Assessment forms. In 2009, they released Getting Ready: Indicators of Health in Durham County. A Report Card on Young Children’s Health and Getting Ready: Indicators of School Readiness in Durham County.