Achievement by Estimated Educational Attainment, 2007

Figure 6 highlights the region’s overall achievement on our Summary Outcome and Summary Process Standards, stratified by estimated patient educational attainment. As with our income estimates, each practice organization used the 2000 Census to provide estimates of each patient’s educational attainment. Patients are divided into three categories in relation to the percentage of high school graduates in Cuyahoga County in the 2000 census; high education reflects neighborhood with graduation rates above 90%; low education reflects neighborhood with graduation rates below 80%; and “middle” reflects neighborhoods with graduation rates between 80% and 90%. Again, horizontal lines represent the 38% region-wide achievement on the Summary Outcome Standard (left) and the 46% region-wide achievement on the Summary Process Standard (right).

Figure 6. Region-wide Achievement on Better Health’s Summary Standards, by Educational Attainment Category. 2007

Results by estimated educational attainment were quite similar to those across income categories. Overall achievement on our Summary Outcome Standard varied from 43% in the highest education level to 33% in the lowest education level. As with our results by insurance and income, however, there was very little variation across educational categories in the achievement of our Summary Process Standard, with achievement levels ranging from 46% (high education) to 48% (low education).