Healthy Alaskans 2030 Scorecards
December 2024 Release
Background
The State of Alaska, in partnership with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, has implemented a process and tracking mechanism for its Healthy Alaskans 2030 State Health Improvement Plan. The Healthy Alaskans scorecards show trends for each of the health objectives for a single point in time over a 10-year time span, starting with the most current data that was available in 2020. New scorecards are published on the Healthy Alaskans website as new data becomes available. These two scorecards show the progress on Healthy Alaskans 2030 health objectives for All Alaskans and Alaska Native people.
Definitions
Target Met is when a health objective
has met or exceeded the target; it is marked with a blue
star.
If a health
objective has not met the target but has moved towards the target and
has improved at least 1% over baseline, it is marked as
Improving and denoted with a yellow arrow.
A health objective is considered Not
Improving if any of the following conditions are true for the
current data point: it is moving away from the target, is unchanged, or
has improved less than 1% relative to baseline.
Summary Figures
All Alaskans
The figure below shows the number of health objectives and their current status for All Alaskans as of December 2024. Of the 30 objectives, 7 have met the target, 2 have improved, and 20 have not improved. Please note the health objective goals span a 10-year period and the figure below only provides information for a single point in time.
*Objective 18 is temporarily unavailable due to a methodology
change.
Alaska Native Population
The figure below shows the number of health objectives and their current status for the Alaska Native population as of Decemeber 2024. Of the 30 objectives, 2 have met the target, 8 have improved, and 14 have not improved. Please note the health objective goals span a 10-year period and the figure below only provides information for a single point in time.
*Objective 18 is temporarily unavailable due to a methodology
change.
†The five remaining objectives
(2,3,20,24,29) do not have race specific data available. Objective 2,
the percentage of serviceable rural housing units with water and sewer
service, and Objective 3, the percentage of the population served by
optimally fluoridated water systems, are both statewide objectives. The
percentage of renter households with housing costs over 50% of household
income, the percentage of adults needing, but not receiving substance
use treatment, and the rate of rape, (Objectives 20, 24, and 29
respectively) do not have Alaska Native specific data due to data source
limitations. Healthy Alaskans continuously reviews current data sources
and searches for new data sources to report Alaska Native data.
Scorecards
The tables below provide the details on the 30 objectives for Alaska as a whole as well as for the Alaska Native population. The data sources for health objectives 2, 3, 20, 24, and 29 do not report data by race and therefore the data are not available for the Alaska Native Scorecard. Objective 18 is also not available for both the All Alaskans and Alaska Native Scorecards due to changes in methodology. The baseline year and current year are listed beneath the respective data point. For additional information, please see the technical notes after the tables.
How to use these tables:
Choose the columns you’d like to see using the Data View drop down menu.
Columns can be moved by dragging them to any position.
The Health Objective column is searchable.
The Progress column can be filtered by progress status.
Select columns can be sorted alphabetically or numerically using the arrow buttons next to the column name.
The table can be downloaded as an Excel file.
Note the Progress Icon and Sparkline columns do not show any images when either scorecard is exported as an Excel file.
All Alaskans
Alaska Native Population
Technical Notes
December 2024 Release
There are no new data available for Objective #2. The percentage of serviceable rural housing units with water and sewer service does not have any new data.
For objective #10, Healthy Alaskans 2030 has switched from using the CDC National Immunization Survey-Child (NIS-Child) survey data to VacTrAK, the Alaska Immunization Information System. VacTrAK is a better quality data source for immunization information in Alaska in comparison to the CDC NIS-Child survey, however, there are a few technical items to note. While all vaccines administered in Alaska are required to be reported to VacTrAK, there may be gaps in data for vaccines administered out of state, through the Department of Defense, or discrepancies in reported race, which was not a required field until 2022. Due to the data source change, a new baseline was established, and the most current data were included. The new data source also allowed for vaccination data for Alaska Native people to be added, therefore the scorecards now track 4 doses of DTAP by 2 years of age for both All Alaskans and Alaska Native people. The target did not change.
A new baseline and target were selected for the percentage of adolescents who feel like they matter to people in their community (Objective #18) to reflect the change in methodology in the 2023 YRBS.
Due to data availability, there are no new data for Objective #24, the percentage of adults needing, but not receiving substance use treatment.
December 2023 Release
The definition of “Improving” was updated from “any movement toward the target” to “if a health objective has moved toward the target and has improved at least 1% over baseline.”
All data points for Health Objective #4, that is the percentage of women who receive prenatal care beginning in the first trimester, were updated due a change in methodology.
General
The formal definitions, the data sources, and the calculations for each health objective can be found under the Data Sources tab on the Healthy Alaskans website.
To learn more about how the health objectives and targets were selected, please visit the home page of the Healthy Alaskans website.
In both tables, relative % change is calculated. Relative % change is calculated as follows: \[\frac{Current\: Data - Baseline\: Data}{Baseline\: Data} \times 100.\]
Relative % change allows for comparison between objectives as the unit of measure for the objectives differs (e.g. percentages versus rates per 100,000 people). Please note some of the targets for the objectives aim for a reduction and some objectives aim for an increase. Therefore, a negative relative % change would reflect improvement for an objective that aims to reduce a health-related outcome in the population.
The HA2030 scorecards were created using R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24 ucrt). The arrow icon was created by Creative Stall Premium on Flaticon and the star icon comes from the Healthy Alaskans logo. All three icons were updated by the Alaska Native Epidemiology Center at ANTHC. The N/A icon was created by Bluxart on Flaticon.
Contact Us
Please contact us at healthyalaskans@alaska.gov.
