Florida’s Social Determinants of Health and Heart Disease Age-Adjusted Death Rate

The social determinants of health are conditions in the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes and risks. This map series details 5 social determinants and where they are most burdensome in Florida. When this data is overlaid with heart disease death rate data then it is easy to see that often those counties with poor outcomes on the measures associated with the social determinants also experience an increased amount of deaths associated with heart disease.

Evaluating Sociodemographic and Geographic Disparities of Hypertension in Florida using SAS

There are a variety of programs currently used to map data. SAS® is a program that can also be used to map multiple types of data including data from Florida’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. This paper will demonstrate the use of SAS® to evaluate and map the influence of socio-demographic factors such as sex, race/ethnicity, age, education and income on hypertension prevalence in Florida using Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data. This paper is designed to teach users how to create simple choropleth and prism maps using numeric response data.

Implementing Equitable Strategies to Reduce Heart Disease in Florida

Health Disparities Conference, New Orleans, LA March 2017; National Association of County and

City Health Officials, 2019