General Health Information on the Web HealthLINE Texas Woman's University T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences January 17, 2013
Slide 2Agenda Overview - What is general wellbeing? Wellbeing advancement and instruction Evidence-based practice Statistics and Data Sets Keeping Up Exercises
Slide 3What is Public Health? MISSION: enhance/advance physical and psychological wellness avert illness, damage and incapacity http://www.whatispublichealth.org (Association of Schools of Public Health) VISION : Healthy People in Healthy Communities
Slide 4What is Public Health?
Slide 520 th Century's Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the U.S. Inoculation Motor vehicle security Control of irresistible illnesses Safer work environments Safer and more advantageous sustenances Family arranging Fluoridation of drinking water Recognition of tobacco use as a wellbeing peril Healthier moms and children Decline in passings from coronary illness and stroke
Slide 6Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Collaboration of U.S. government offices, general wellbeing associations and wellbeing science libraries. Mission: Helping the general wellbeing workforce find and utilize data adequately to enhance and ensure the general's wellbeing. http://phpartners.org/
Slide 7Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) American Public Health Association (APHA) Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Medical Library Association (MLA) National Agricultural Library National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Public Health Foundation (PHF) Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) http://phpartners.org/
Slide 8Core Functions and Essential Services 3 center capacities 10 crucial administrations http://www.health.gov/phfunctions/public.htm
Slide 9Health Promotion & Education Resources for wellbeing teachers and wellbeing advancement pros. Putting great data in the hands of the individuals who require it. An educated open is a solid open.
Slide 10Health Promotion & Education MedlinePlus http://www.medlineplus.gov Health Topics Frequently Requested Topics Multiple Languages (now 49!) Health and Wellness Demographic Groups Health News Drugs & Supplements Videos & Cool Tools
Slide 11Health Promotion and Education Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov Sections helpful for wellbeing instructors and Public Health Preparedness American Public Health Association (APHA) "Sound You" http://thenationshealth.aphapublications.org/Free wellbeing reality sheets on an assortment of points Get Ready Campaign and National Public Health Week
Slide 12Health Promotion & Education Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov A – Z Index For Specific Groups: State, Tribal, Local & Territorial Public Health Professionals Gateway New Health Literacy site: http://www.cdc.gov/healthliteracy Food and Drug Administration (FDA) http://www.fda.gov a to z Subject Index FDA For You: For Consumers & Patients, For Health Professionals
Slide 13Health Promotion & Education Healthy Roads Media Health data in numerous dialects and various organizations http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN) Health and social data for exiles and wellbeing suppliers http://www.rhin.org/
Slide 14Exercises Part 1
Slide 15Evidence-Based Practice
Slide 16Evidence-Based Practice Collection of logical confirmation to bolster choices in general wellbeing. Why is it vital? Designation of assets Return on speculation For each $1 spent on smoking discontinuance programs, you spare $1.50 in diminishment of medicinal services costs Example: "City Initiative Brings Fresh Produce to Houston's 'Nourishment Deserts'"
Slide 17Evidence-Based Public Health "the improvement, usage, and assessment of successful projects and arrangements in general wellbeing through use of standards of logical thinking , including methodical employments of information and data frameworks, and proper utilization of behavioral science hypothesis and program arranging models." Source : Brownson , Ross C., Elizabeth A. Dough puncher, Terry L. Leet , and Kathleen N. Gillespie, Editors. Prove Based Public Health . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Slide 18PHPartners.org Literature and Guidelines PubMed More than 20 million references for biomedical articles http://pubmed.gov/"Research is Just a Click Away… " Individual Journal Titles Newsletters Agency Reports
Slide 19Evidence-Based Public Health Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries http://phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html Guide to Community Preventive Services Summaries of populace based mediations CDC and U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services http://thecommunityguide.org
Slide 20Evidence-Based Public Health NACCHO Model Practices Database National Association of County & City Health Officials http://www.naccho.org/themes/modelpractices/database/National Guideline Clearinghouse (AHRQ) Guidelines with proposals, methodologies, and so forth http://www.guideline.gov/
Slide 21Exercises, Part 2
Slide 22Break!!
Slide 23Statistics & Data Sets Caveat: measurements are gathered to address the issues of the authority! Hierarchical point of view and inclination Biases can figure out what information are gathered, how they are gathered and results that are accounted for Data : crude numbers; must be prepared to be of useful utilize Statistics: broke down crude information in a significant arrangement
Slide 24To check … or not to tally "Everything that can be tallied does not really tally; everything that tallies can't really be checked." - - Albert Einstein
Slide 25Key Features of Health Statistics Population based Measure an extensive variety of wellbeing markers Often gathered and dissected over a timeframe Include diverse sorts of information Vital (birth, passing, marriage, separate) Morbidity & mortality Use and cost of social insurance Epidemiology
Slide 26How is the information accumulated?
Slide 27Uses of Data and Statistics Measure extensive variety of wellbeing pointers Assess expenses of human services Identify required avoidance focuses for results (e.g. Sound People 2020) Evaluate viability of general wellbeing programs
Slide 28Health Data Tools & Statistics PHPartners.org Gateway to an abundance of measurements locales and information sets CDC Data and Statistics CDC is the best on the planet for information & insights National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Slide 29Health Data Tools & Statistics FastStats A – Z http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Quick access to subjects significant to general wellbeing start to finish posting BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/World's biggest phone study (both landlines and PDAs) Tracks wellbeing dangers in the U.S. WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting Systems) http://www.cdc.gov/damage/wisqars Information on deadly and non-lethal wounds
Slide 30Health Data Tools & Statistics State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation) http://www.statehealthfacts.org Allows correlation on a state level County Health Rankings http://www.countyhealthrankings.org Provides preview of a region's general wellbeing
Slide 31Exercises, Part 3
Slide 32Keeping Up and Staying Informed Staying educated is an expert duty. Being educated is imperative at each level. Proficient systems give the most esteem (applicable things) while consuming minimal measure of time. It's anything but difficult to end up overpowered!
Slide 33Why is it imperative? Steadily expanding measures of data New enactment New rules Funding
Slide 34Strategies Email records and RSS channels Tables of substance of diaries Automatic redesign seeks (e.g. My NCBI) Social media (Twitter, Facebook, online journals) Joining or taking after associations (APHA, NACCHO, SOPHE) Not all data is accessible electronically
Slide 35Thank you! Cheryl Rowan, Consumer Health Coordinator National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region cheryl.rowan@exch.library.tmc.edu 713-799-7880 http://nnlm.nih.gov/scr South Central Region
Slide 36Closing contemplations… . "Clean water and human services and school and nourishment and tin rooftops and bond floors, these things ought to constitute an arrangement of fundamentals that individuals must have as inheritances." ~ Paul Farmer, Mountains Beyond Mountains , author, Partners in Health
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