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New Mexico’s Indicator-based Information System for

Community Health Assessment (NM-IBIS)

New Mexico’s Indicator-based Information System for

Community Health Assessment (NM-IBIS)

Project Kick-Off Meeting

May 13, 2008

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OutlineOutline

Background & Context

NM-IBIS Implementation– What’s completed?– What’s next?

Acknowledgments

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Background & ContextBackground & Context Cora –

– What it took to get IBIS here

– How will IBIS help community health assessment/improvement?

Mike – – ERD Perspective

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Public Health AssessmentPublic Health Assessment The role of government in public

health:1

– to develop policy that supports the health of populations,

– to assure access to health care and the quality of that care, and

– to assess the health status of the population.1. Institute of Medicine; Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health; Division

of Health Care Services (1988) The Future of Public Health. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.

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Community Health Assessment Program (CHAP)

Community Health Assessment Program (CHAP)

Mission: – Strengthen community health assessment

capacity and practice in New Mexico. Goals:

– Improve the availability and accessibility of local public health data to support community health assessment by counties, tribes and other local entities.

– Strengthen the capacity of county councils and tribal entities to perform regular, meaningful community health assessment.

– Sustain community health assessment capacity and practice in NM.

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Community Health Assessment Program (CHAP)

Community Health Assessment Program (CHAP)

Core Activities: – Provide training and technical assistance to DOH programs,

counties, tribes and other local entities in the use and interpretation of public health data.

– Maintain Web-based access to meaningful data and information to support community assessment activities.

– Conduct population-based assessments relevant to local needs.

– Develop methods to provide meaningful data for sub-county New Mexico geographies where population size permits it.

– Evaluate the impacts of locally-conducted community health assessment on program and policy at the local level and within state health and human services agencies.

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NM-IBISNM-IBIS New Mexico’s Indicator-Based Information

System for Community Health Assessment.– Custom Dataset Queries of public health

datasets• Births and Deaths• Infectious Disease• Health Surveys

– Indicator Reports for priority public health issues• Obesity• Teen Births• Diabetes• Suicide• and others…

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Indicator ReportsIndicator Reports Promote education and awareness of

public health issues Organizes and standardizes data and

graphs for presentation– Reports– Grant applications

Community Profile Reports– Indicator page content supports

dynamic community profile reports.

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Web-Based Content Management

Web-Based Content Management

The IBIS-Admin system allows subject- matter experts to maintain their own indicator pages.– Can update the Indicator Report page as

soon as data become available.

– Indicator Report page is updated by staff who understand the issue and the health communication objectives.

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What’s Next?What’s Next?

Additional Content

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Additional Query DatasetsAdditional Query Datasets Cancer Registry? Administrative Data?

– Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data

– Emergency Department Data Infant Mortality? Census Bureau, others?

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Additional Indicator ReportsAdditional Indicator Reports Demographic Characteristics Maternal and Child Health Chronic Disease Infectious Disease Environmental Health Injury and Violence Health System Survey Measures Alcohol and Drugs

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Additional Community Options

Additional Community Options

Geographic Areas– ZIP codes?

– Census tracts? Tribes

– Tribal affiliation?

– Residence?

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Additional Help Topics, Tutorials

Additional Help Topics, Tutorials

SMR, Indirectly Age-adjusted Rates Assessing trend data for statistical

significance Peer Areas – identifying communities

with similar demographic characteristics, health outcomes

Community Health Profile – tutorial and “wizard”

Priority-setting for community action

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What’s Next?What’s Next?

Additional Functionality

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Query SystemQuery System Interactive maps from query data New statistical measures

– Standardized mortality/morbidity ratio

– “Statistically Different” from state rate

– Life Expectancy

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Indicator ReportsIndicator Reports Maps in indicator reports Community Profile

– More measures

– More communities available

– More flexibility on Profile Builder page Topical Index (in addition to

alphabetical)

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SummarySummary NM-IBIS is a Web-based resource for

public health data and information For the public, DOH staff, health

councils… Use it and help develop it (need help

from subject-matter experts from across NMDOH)

Ideas, feedback, contributions are welcome

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AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments Leadership (Mike, Mack): promotion of the

concept, support Cora Halasan: paving the way for it Jenny Liu, IT staff and managers:

collaborating during implementation phase, providing ongoing support

Jenny Qin: programming over half the query modules and contributing her substantial SAS knowledge and skills

Everyone who has reviewed the site and provided input/feedback

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AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments Data Stewards for contributing datasets to

the query system:– Wayne Honey, BRFSS– Kim Peters, Camille Clifford, Birth

and Death certificate– Jessica Jungk, Infectious disease – Jennifer Hudson, PRAMS survey– Dan Green, YRRS survey– BBER (plus Jim Roeber & Cora

Halasan), population estimates data

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AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments Indicator owners and contributors

– Susan Baum, Libby Ficek, Laurie Wilson (Obesity indicator)

– Yolanda Cordova, Norma Vasquez, Tierny Murphy (Youth Suicide indicator)

– Lynn Mundt, Susan Lovett, Anne Worthington (Teen Births indicator)

– Cora Halason, Judith Gabrielle (Diabetes Prevalence, Deaths indicators)

– Gay Romero (assistance and implementation)

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Contact Me:Contact Me: For IBIS bookmarks

For additional training

If you have ideas for improving the site

If you want to serve on an advisory committee for NM-IBIS

To get your data onto IBIS query system

To get your indicator report on IBIS (contact Gay Romero, gay.romero@state.nm.us)

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July 16 training! July 16 training! IBIS and Community Health

Epidemiology

Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

RSVP to Gay Romero  gay.romero@state.nm.us  (505) 476-3566

UNM Continuing Education Building1634 University NEAlbuquerque, NM

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Thank You!Thank You!

Lois M Haggard, PhD

Community Health Assessment Program

lois.haggard@state.nm.us

505-827-5274