Rate: Deaths Per 100,000 15-19 year old males of Population

Definition: Deaths where homicide is indicated as the underlying cause of death. Homicide is defined as death resulting from the intentional use of force or power, threatened or actual, against another person, group, or community. ICD-10 Codes: X85-Y09, Y87.1 (homicide)

Data Sources:

1) Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health

2) Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Rate: Number of newly reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis among total number of persons in the population per 100,000 population.

Definition: Newly reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis per 100,000 population.

Data Source: Division of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Services, New Jersey Department of Health

Rate: Number of deaths due to oropharyngeal cancer per 100,000 Population.

Definition: Number of deaths per 100,000 with malignant neoplasm (cancer) of the lip, oral cavity and pharynx as the underlying cause of death (ICD-10 codes: C00-C14).

Data Sources:

(1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Compressed Mortality File. CDC WONDER On-line Database accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html

(2) Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health

(3) Population Estimates, State Data Center, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development

Ratio: Total number of "observed" or actual infections (Standardized infection ratio)

Definition: Infections that are acquired in a health care setting, as measured by a standardized infection ratio (SIR), resulting from coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

Data Source: New Jersey Healthcare-Associated Infections submitted through the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

Rate: Number of emergency room visits per 100,000 persons age 5 - 64 years old.

Definition: Rate of emergency room visits due to asthma (primary diagnosis of asthma, defined by ICD-9 code 493 for January 2000 through September 2015; and ICD-10 codes J44 and J45 for the last quarter of 2015).

Source: New Jersey Uniform Billing Patient Summary Data (Hospital Discharges), Office of Health Care Quality and Assessment, New Jersey Department of Health

Rate: Number of hospitalizations per 100,000 persons age 5 - 64 years old.

Definition: Rate of hospitalizations due to asthma (primary diagnosis of asthma, defined by ICD-9 code 493 for January 2000 through September 2015; and ICD-10 codes J44 and J45 for the last quarter of 2015).

Source: New Jersey Uniform Billing Patient Summary Data (Hospital Discharges), Office of Health Care Quality and Assessment, New Jersey Department of Health

Rate: Number of new cases of breast cancer (per 100,000) diagnosed at the regional or distant stage among females.

Definition: Age-adjusted incidence rate of invasive breast cancer per 100,000 female population.

Data Sources:

(1) NJ State Cancer Registry, Dec 31, 2015 Analytic File, using NCI SEER*Stat ver 8.2.1 (www.seer.cancer.gov/seerstat)

(2) NJ population estimates as calculated by the NCI's SEER Program, released January 2015, http://www.seer.cancer.gov/popdata/download.html.

Rate: Newly reported cases of gonorrhea per 100,000 male population age under 30 years of age.

Definition: (2016) Rate of newly reported gonorrhea cases among men under 30 years old (per 100,000 males) by date of diagnosis. NOTE - this indicator was modified during the HNJ2020 Midcourse Review process in 2016.

Previous Definition: (2010-2015) Rate of newly reported gonorrhea cases among men ages 15-44 years old (per 100,000 males) by date of diagnosis

Data Sources: Division of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Services, New Jersey Department of Health

Rate: Number of newly reported cases of congenital syphilis per 100,000 live births.

Definition: Rate of newly reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis by date of diagnosis per 100,000 population.

Data Source: Division of HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Services, New Jersey Department of Health