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HEALTH CARE SNAPSHOT
Local health care data and information
COMPILED BY DANICA LLOYD & DANIEL WEEKS
HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR COUNTY?
HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE BY COUNTY Harris and Fort Bend counties rank 31 and 58 for primary care physicians per 100,000 people, as of May 25 data.
These rankings of all counties statewide are updated annually but include data from previous years. The factors listed are not comprehensive.
Primary care physicians, 2022 Profession count
HARRIS COUNTY
HEALTH OUTCOMES INCLUDE:
Per 100,000 residents
County rank statewide
• LENGTH OF LIFE • QUALITY OF LIFE , such as the number of poor mental and physical health days reported
FORT BEND COUNTY WALLER COUNTY
31 211 58
4,607
89.2
6 609
11.5
2023 STATEWIDE HEALTH CARE RANKINGS OUT OF 244 RANKED COUNTIES
67.4
HEALTH FACTORS INCLUDE:
• HEALTHBEHAVIORS , such as smoking, obesity, physical activity, excessive drinking, alcohol-impaired driving deaths, sexually transmitted infections and teen births • CLINICALCARE , including health insurance coverage; number of physicians, dentists and mental health providers; preventable hospital stays; and u vaccinations • SOCIOECONOMICFACTORS , such as educational attainment levels, children in poverty, income inequality and violent crimes • PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT FACTORS , such as air pollution, drinking water violations, housing problems and long commutes
Sept. 2020 Sept. 2021 Sept. 2022 HEALTH CARE EMPLOYMENT TRENDS Health care and social assistance industry employment
HEALTH OUTCOMES
4 4 9
22 25
28 31 66
Length of life Overall
2-year change 0.00%
2-year change +13.77%
2-year change +6.72%
51
Quality of life HEALTH FACTORS
2 7
43 86 62
54 96
Overall
Health behaviors
12 13
192
Socioeconomic Physical environment Clinical care
127 241
77
SOURCES: ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN POPULATION HEALTH INSTITUTE, COUNTYHEALTHRANKINGS.ORG, U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES COMMUNITY IMPACT
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KATY SOUTH FULSHEAR EDITION • JUNE 2023
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