The likeliest reason is that you are looking for data that is not available at the level (in a location) that you want.  It may be possible that the data you are looking for is not publicly reported – or – the data has not yet been imported into Health Compass.  Sometimes, the sample size for a particular indicator is too small to produce reliable data, which is not uncommon at the zip code level.

Here’s what you should do:

1. Review the list of indicators in All Data by Location to see which indicators are available by County, State, Municipality, Municipal Region, SES group, Zip Code or Census tract.
2. Contact Health Compass Milwaukee in the ‘contact us’ section in the web page footer or in the ‘about us’ tab. We’d love to hear from you.  We might be able to offer alternative searches.  Plus, we’d like to know if there are additional data sets you’d recommend for Health Compass Milwaukee!

A Dashboard is a collection of indicators that exist on the Health Compass Milwaukee website.  Dashboards can be organized by topic, location, demographics or other elements - and data within a dashboard is updated as it becomes available.  Dashboards are a way to track any number of community health issues over time.

Custom dashboards can be created by Health Compass Milwaukee users and saved, shared with others and even linked to other websites.

A Report is a ‘snapshot’ in time of a set of health indicators for a specific location.  Generated as a PDF, a report can contain a customized array of values, charts and maps to help tell the story of a community’s health or focus on key health issues and demographics.  Reports can be downloaded and printed, but they are not saved within the website. 

Health Compass Milwaukee reports can be helpful appendices to grant applications and community health improvement planning projects.

The Health Equity Index, created by Conduent HCI, assigns a numerical value to each zip code in Milwaukee county, based on a national model. Ranked from 1 = low need to 5 = high need, the index provides a simple, ‘at a glance’ measure of socioeconomic need – that correlates to health outcomes.

The index is calculated from six indicators, one each from the following topics: Poverty, Income, Unemployment, Occupation, Education, and Language.

To learn more about the Health Equity Index, use the Help button found in the footer on the Health Compass Milwaukee website.

Socioeconomic Status (SES) groups were developed by the Center for Urban Population Health as a way to reflect health disparities within Milwaukee county. Using income and education criteria, the SES model organizes zip codes into five groups, segmented by low, medium-low, medium, medium-high, and high socioeconomic status.

In Health Compass Milwaukee, each SES group contains the same set of indicators, but with differing values.  Comparing SES groups shows how socioeconomic status reflects health factors and affects health outcomes.