COUNTY-LEVEL INDICATORS
FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH
ASSESSMENT
Minnesota Department of Health
Office of Performance Improvement
Minnesota Center for Health Statistics
First Webinar in a Series of Three on Data
for Community Health Assessment
1. County-level Indicators for Community Health
Assessment (May 2012)
2. What Do the Data Say? Questions to ask of the data
and interpreting the answers (July 2012)
3. Looking for More Answers: Additional data sources
for community health assessment (August 2012)
Today’s Learning Objectives
Participants will:
1.
Become familiar with the main county-level data sources
available from MCHS.
2.
Be able to access each file and learn how to move around in
these documents to find their county data.
3.
Increase their understanding of the recommended framework
for community health assessments.
4.
Get comfortable contacting MCHS and OPI for more
assistance with data.
Agenda
• Statewide Health Assessment and assessment framework
• New MCHS documents for assessment
• MSS Single Year Results
• Vital Statistics State, County and CHB Trends
• The “Indicator Lists”
• Technical assistance
• Questions
• What’s next?
The Health of Minnesota
2012 Statewide Health Assessment
Assessment Framework
Introduction
• A Framework for Assessment Health
• General Health Status
• Health Disparities and Health Equity
Minnesota: People and Place
• Urban and Rural Population Trends
• Immigration and Growing Diversity
• Aging and Retirement
• Water, Weather and the Air
• Roads, Highways and Bridges
The Opportunity for Health in Minnesota
• Education and Employment
• Income and Poverty
• Housing and Home Ownership
• Outdoor and Indoor Environments
• Social Connectedness
• Community and Personal Safety
• Access to Health Care
• Public Health Infrastructure
Healthy Living in Minnesota
• A Healthy Start for Children
• Physical Activity and Eating Habits
• Use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Prescription
Drugs
• Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions
• Preventing Disease and Injury
• Promoting Mental Health
Disease and Injury
• Chronic Diseases and Conditions
• Infectious Disease
• Injury and Violence
Conclusion: Meeting Challenges with
Strengths
New MCHS Documents
• What’s new on our homepage: www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/
New MCHS Documents
• Minnesota Student Survey Selected Single Year Results
• www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/mss/singleyr/index.html
• Minnesota State, County, and Community Health Board
Vital Statistics Trend Report
• www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/trends/index.html
MN County-level Indicators
• A listing of indicators across multiple public health
categories and from various data sources.
• You are not required to use these specific indicators, nor
are these indicators intended to represent the only
measures that might be needed examine to do a thorough
community health assessment and plan.
• Available in two documents:
• one sorted by the Minnesota Statewide Health Assessment themes
• one sorted by the main data source.
• www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/ind/index.htm
MCHS Support to Local Public Health
• The MCHS offers a variety of support to local public
health departments regarding data.
• We provide technical assistance and training on locating, analyzing
and presenting health-related data.
• We assist with planning and conducting health-related surveys and
the use of existing survey data
Need help with surveys?
• Call or email Ann Kinney about conducting a new survey
or using existing survey data, about statistical issues, or
for Minnesota Student Survey or BRFSS results.
[email protected]
651-201-5946
Questions about birth or death data?
• Call or email Kim Edelman about birth and death data,
where to find data, how to present or analyze data, or how
to use Excel.
[email protected]
651-201-5944
Questions about the Statewide Health
Assessment?
Visit the websites:
• The Healthy Minnesota Partnership:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/healthymnpartnership
• The Statewide Health Assessment:
• http://www.health.state.mn.us/healthymnpartnership/sha
• Call or email Dorothy Bliss, Office of Performance
Improvement, [email protected], 651-201-3871
OPI Support
• Visit the Local Public Health Assessment and Planning
web pages:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/cfh/ophp/system/plannin
g/index.html (Please note: these pages are being updated;
the revised pages will be ready by early June.)
• Call or email your regional public health nurse consultant.
• Check the OPI training calendar:
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/cfh/ophp/consultation/tr
aining/#tta