{"id":111074,"date":"2020-02-11T15:50:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=111074"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T02:40:34","slug":"neighborhoods-highest-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/neighborhoods-highest-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Hawai\u02bbi neighborhoods have the highest well-being?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manoa-ctahr-cof-kidscount.jpg\" alt=\"collage\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manoa-ctahr-cof-kidscount.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manoa-ctahr-cof-kidscount-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manoa-ctahr-cof-kidscount-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/uhfamily.hawaii.edu\/\">Center on the Family <\/a> released the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/uhfamily.hawaii.edu\/community-profiles\"><em>Community Profile Series<\/em><\/a>, which examines the well-being of communities throughout the state. <\/p>\n<p>The latest series\u2014an expansion of work conducted in 2018\u2014presents measures of quality of life and community well-being for 42 communities throughout the state, as well as state and county-level data. Data from a variety of national and state sources on 38 indicators are organized into five key well-being domains: family and social environment, economic well-being, education, health and community. The profiles present the relative conditions of each community in comparison to the state, and communities are also ranked into five tiers (tier 1 being the highest and tier 5 being the lowest) based on overall well-being.<\/p>\n<p>While <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> has a number of communities in the top tier of overall well-being, the county offers a mixed bag with communities on the Leeward coast and urban Honolulu landing in the bottom tier. Communities in Maui and <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> counties tend to place in the mid-range tiers, while <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Island has a number of communities in the lower tiers. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uhfamily.hawaii.edu\/community-profiles\">See more profiles of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s communities<\/a><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>Having an informed understanding of a community helps in the planning, implementation and evaluation of programs and services. The individual profiles can be used as a tool to assist anyone who is interested in using data to inform efforts that improve the well-being of these communities and their residents. <\/p>\n<p>Authors invite the public to provide feedback on the series <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe8qNyQSdqpfFgAYgygaPVVGd2xscB_uWWNZ0A2T8lkApNZWQ\/viewform\">by responding to a short survey<\/a>. Additionally, those who would like to host a data party or workshop to discuss their community\u2019s data and how it can be used to inform their efforts, can contact <strong>Kathleen Gauci<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> KIDS COUNT Project Coordinator, at <a href=\"mailto:kt728@hawaii.edu\">kt728@hawaii.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> has a number of communities in the top tier of overall well-being, the county offers a mixed bag with the Leeward coast and urban Honolulu landing in the bottom tier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[213,212,1363,241,158,9],"class_list":["post-111074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-center-on-the-family","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-manoa-research","tag-public-health","tag-publication","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111074"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111096,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111074\/revisions\/111096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}