Wisconsin State Health Plan 2010
Tracking Health Conditions
Query the Mortality Measures
Make selections below to define a table showing mortality measures for the
health condition(s) of interest. The table can show counts or rates of death at
the county level by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. The data are from death
certificates for Wisconsin residents.
Most of the conditions listed here are measured by the underlying cause of
death. Three conditions (hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes) are
measured by all mentions of the condition on the death certificate. (Note the
mortality files do not include all-mention causes for deaths that occurred
before 1993, so measures based on all-mention causes are not available for
1990-1992). One condition (farm injury) is measured by the reported place of an
injury resulting in death. These exceptions to counting only the underlying
cause mean that some deaths could be counted for more than one health condition;
the categories are not mutually exclusive.
The mortality-based health condition measures are not a complete tally of all
deaths. The
WISH Mortality Module
is one convenient source of local data on all Wisconsin resident deaths.
Please note that a major revision to the cause-of-death classification system
was implemented for deaths that occurred in 1999 and subsequent years. Caution
should be used in comparing numbers or rates for years before and after the
revision. Please refer to the
Trend Analysis Caution
for details. Also refer to
Technical Notes for data sources and query system terminology, and to
Mortality
Definitions for more information on the health conditions.
Note: To see statistics for specific causes of death, you must
specify one or more causes in the drop-down list above AND choose "Causes of Death"
as a ROW or COLUMN variable in steps 6 or 7 below.
Step 3. Choose One or More Geographic Areas
Note: Vernon County was reassigned from the Western to the Southern Region effective February 2004.
This change is reflected in the data presented for all years.
Step 4. Choose One or More Years
Please refer to the trends analysis caution before interpreting trend
changes between 1998 and 1999, when changes in the classification system
occurred. To select one or more years: Click on a year, or hold down the Control
(Ctrl) key and click on multiple years.
or
ranges (Example: 1999-2001). Do not overlap ranges
from one box
to the next.
Step 5. Choose Specific Characteristics (optional)
Choose to include only some age, sex, or race groups. To select more than one
group (but not all), hold down the Control key and click on each selection.
