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

• 2016 State of the County Health Report
• 2015 State of the County Health report
• 2013 State of the County Health Report
• 2012 State of the County Health Report
• 2010 State of the County Health Report
• 2009 State of the County Health Report
• 2008 State of the County Health Report
• 2006 State of the County Health Report
• 2005 State of the County Health Report
• 2004 State of the County Health Report
• 2002 State of the County Health Report

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
  • 2016 Community Health Assessment Survey Results Full County Sample English Infographic
  • 2016 Community Health Assessment Survey Results Full County Sample Spanish Infographic
  • 2016 Community Health Assessment Survey Results Hispanic and Latino Neighborhood Sample English Infographic
  • 2016 Community Health Assessment Survey Results Hispanic and Latino Neighborhood Sample Spanish Infographic
• 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
  • Summary document
  • Executive Summary
  • Full CHA report
  • Community survey results
    
• 2007 Community Health Assessment
  • Summary report on the Assessment to the Durham Community
  • Final 2007 Durham Community Health Assessment
  • Report on the 2007 Durham Health Assessment Survey
    
• 2003 Community Health Assessment
  • Assessment Executive Summary
  • A Report to Major Stakeholders on the Health Status of Durham County
  • Focus Group Summary
  • Phone Survey Executive Summary
  • Key Findings and Recommendations

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

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.