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Nursing: Community

This course guide is to address the needs of the Nursing 4660 course, particularly in regards to their community health assessment assignment.

Birth Data

Data on births is surprisingly difficult to access. The most recent data on births is here:

Since the data is particularly difficult to comb through, the most recent data available is represented here for you:

In the year 2017, Nueces County experienced 4,520 births. This is a birthrate of 12.51 per 1,000.

In the year 2017, Texas experienced 382,050 births. This is a birthrate of 13.50 per 1,000.

Death Data

If you want the most up to date data, you'll need to use SimplyAnalytics. Hover over the SimplyAnalytics option on the blue menu to the left and select the second tab "Death Data" to learn how to access that information.

You can also find data on deaths using the CDC Wonder tool.

The most recent data from the CDC is the 2017 data and reports the following:

Nueces County experienced 3,041 deaths out of a population of 361,221 which is a rate of 841.9 per 100,000.

Cause of Mortality

To see causes of death in Nueces County in 2017, access CDC Wonder using the link above. Then follow these steps:

1) Select "Detailed Mortality" under Underlying Causes of Death"

2) Under "Organize table layout:" tell the form that you want to Group Results by "County" (Select county from that first drop down menu)

3) On the second drop down menu, select "Year" and on the third select "Cause of death"

3) Scroll just a little further and under "Select Location:" click the plus sign next to Texas

4) Select "Nueces County" so that you see it in the grey "Currently Selected" box next to all of the options.

You can add more specifications on what you'd like to ask the database, but for causes of mortality, this will do.

5) Click the "Send" button in the light blue "Select Location" bar

6) Once your results appear, organize them into greatest and least causes of mortality by clicking the green arrow that points down next to the category "Death."

 

As of 2017, these were the top fifteen causes of death in Nueces County: