5/13/08 1 New Mexico’s Indicator-based Information System for Community Health Assessment (NM-IBIS) Project Kick-Off Meeting May 13, 2008

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 2 Outline  Background & Context  NM-IBIS Implementation –What’s completed? –What’s next?  Acknowledgments

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 3 Background & Context  Cora – –What it took to get IBIS here –How will IBIS help community health assessment/improvement?  Mike – –ERD Perspective

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 4 Public 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.

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 5 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.

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 6 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.

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 7 NM-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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5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 28 Indicator 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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5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 43 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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5/13/08 48 What’s Next? Additional Content

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 49 Additional Query Datasets  Cancer Registry?  Administrative Data? –Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data –Emergency Department Data  Infant Mortality?  Census Bureau, others?

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 50 Additional Indicator Reports  Demographic Characteristics  Maternal and Child Health  Chronic Disease  Infectious Disease  Environmental Health  Injury and Violence  Health System  Survey Measures  Alcohol and Drugs

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 51 Additional Community Options  Geographic Areas –ZIP codes? –Census tracts?  Tribes –Tribal affiliation? –Residence?

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 52 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

5/13/08 53 What’s Next? Additional Functionality

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 54 Query System  Interactive maps from query data  New statistical measures –Standardized mortality/morbidity ratio –“Statistically Different” from state rate –Life Expectancy

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 55 Indicator Reports  Maps in indicator reports  Community Profile –More measures –More communities available –More flexibility on Profile Builder page  Topical Index (in addition to alphabetical)

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 56 Summary  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

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 57 Acknowledgments  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

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 58 Acknowledgments  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

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 59 Acknowledgments  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)

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 60 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,

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 61 July 16 training!  IBIS and Community Health Epidemiology Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. RSVP to Gay Romero (505) UNM Continuing Education Building 1634 University NE Albuquerque, NM

5/13/08 New Mexico Department of Health 62 Thank You! Lois M Haggard, PhD Community Health Assessment Program