An alarming two-thirds of Davidson County adults (63.6%) are considered obese or overweight.
Nashville Community Health + Well-being Survey, 2019
Health Data
The challenge we face
Timely health data is critical to understand community well being, better allocate resources, implement strategies for health improvement and measure outcomes. Yet, timely, local health data is difficult to find. NashvilleHealth will gather, analyze and disseminate health data to prioritize our community’s greatest health challenges and further effective collective action for change.
Evidence behind our work
Women report 6.2 poor mental health days a month compared to 4.3 by men.
Nashville Community Health + Well-being Survey, 2019
Hispanic males are 12x more likely to experience discrimination when seeking healthcare than white, non-Hispanic males.
Nashville Community Health + Well-being Survey, 2019
70% of LGBT adults are insured, compared to more than 90% of heterosexual adults.
Nashville Community Health & Well-being Survey, 2019
Initiatives
Nashville Community Health + Well-being Survey: NashvilleHealth partnered with the Metro Nashville Public Health Department to field the Nashville Community Health + Well-being Survey, the first county-wide health assessment in nearly 20 years. Available in English and Spanish, the wide-scale assessment was mailed to more than 12,000 households in Davidson County and garnered a 15 percent response rate. Responses are presented by gender, age, ethnicity, education, employment status, annual household income, health insurance coverage, sexual orientation, and five geographic zones of Davidson County.