Health Promotion is related to individual lifestyles that can have a powerful influence over one's health. Health Protection refers to measures that provide protection to larger populations. Preventive Services include counseling, screening, immunization, and other interventions. They allow identification of risks and appropriate interventions and help to flag problems with access to care. Access to Health Care points out unmet health care needs, which has implications not only for the individual, but also for public and community planning of health care resources.
Suicide is considered to be the most serious of the potential outcomes of the mental disorders.
This category points to the need for increasing individuals' coping skills through social support and education. General Mortality is a category of its own, because many of the leading causes of death for people between the ages of 25 and 65 are preventable, wholly or in part, through changes in lifestyle. Parish rankings were done at three levels. If two parishes received the same rank, the ranks of subsequent parishes were not affected. For example, if two parishes were ranked 12, the rank of 13 was skipped, and the next parish was ranked 14.