What is an outcome indicator?
An outcome indicator represents an issue important to the overall well-being of seniors in your community, such as seniors’ economic well-being and access to health care.
What is an outcome measure?
An outcome measure is the specific item that indicates how well seniors are doing in regard to an issue. For example, ‘Primary Care Physicians per 1,000 Seniors’ is the outcome measure for the outcome indicator, ‘Health Care Access’. In order to be included in the Senior Report all measures must be available on an annual basis and collected in a consistent manner across counties, allowing for both comparison over time and between counties.
What is a status indicator?
The status indicators describe the characteristics of the senior population in a county at a single point in time. The status indicators provide context for understanding and prioritizing the outcome indicators.
What is an index?
An index is a tool that combines more than one measure into a single value by converting different units of measurement into a standard unit of measure. An index is used to describe an indicator when single measures are unavailable.
How do I interpret the county rank?
The county rank for an outcome indicator represents the relative position of a county in the context of all 114 Missouri counties and St. Louis City with “1” indicating the most positive finding.
Tables are also included that organize counties and rankings by three general categories of population density as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau: metropolitan (county or adjacent county with urbanized area 50,000+), micropolitan (county or adjacent county with urbanized area 10,000 – 50,000), and rural (county with no urbanized area >10,000).
How do I interpret the composite rank?
The composite county rank is a ranked index of the sum of the standardized outcome measures and represents the relative position of a county in the context of all 114 Missouri counties and St. Louis City with ‘1’ indicating the highest overall score. The economic contribution and long-term care costs indicators are not calculated in the composite rank due to variation in local economies.
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