Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), on behalf of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), announces the availability of the Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool: CalEnviroScreen Version 4.0. CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. The 4.0 report and supporting documents are available at: http://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-40</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), on behalf of the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA), announces the availability of the Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool: CalEnviroScreen Version 4.0. CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution. The 4.0 report and supporting documents are available at: http://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-40</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Name: Community Health and Equity Index CHEI (DCP) - 2021
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Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The Community Health and Equity Index was developed by Raimi + Associates to compare health conditions of one place to another. The Index standardizes demographic, socio-economic, health conditions, land use, transportation, food environment, crime, and pollution burden variables, and then averages them together, yielding a score on a scale of 0-100. Lower values equate to better community health. </SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Variables used in the index include: Heart Disease Mortality, Emergency Department Visits for Heart Attacks, Respiratory Disease Mortality, Diabetes Mortality, Stroke Mortality, Childhood Obesity, Percentage of Low Birth Weight Infants, Number of Emergency Department Visits for Asthma for Under 17 and 18+ age groups, Walkability Score, Complete Communities Index showing the number of establishments serving the community, Modified Food Retail Index, Pollution Exposure and Environmental Effects, Violent Crimes, Property Crimes, Life Expectancy, Hardship Index, and Transportation Index.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Variables were assigned weights and averaged together. Weights were assigned based on the weights used in the 2013 Health Atlas. For more information, see page 181 of the 2013 Health Atlas. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Copyright Text: Community Health and Equity Index, 2021 City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning