TM Data Needs for Public/Population Health Going Beyond Surveillance Steven J Steindel, Ph.D. Senior Advisor, Data Standards and Vocabulary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Data Standards Consortium 3/18/04
TM Infectious Disease Surveillance View
TM CDC’s View of Public Health: Our Centers Chronic Disease (NCCDPHP) Environmental Health (NCEH) Health Statistics (NCHS) Infectious Disease (NCID) Injury (NCIPC) Birth Defects (NCBDDD) Immunization (NIP) Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
TM Leading Causes of Death: 2000 CauseNumberRate/100K Heart Disease Cancer Stroke Chronic Respiratory Unintentional Injury Diabetes Influenza/pneumonia Alzheimer Renal failure Septicemia Other Total
TM Actual Causes of Death: 2000 CauseNumber 1990Number 2000 Tobacco Poor diet/activity Alcohol Microbial agents Toxic agents Motor vehicle Firearms Sexual behavior Illicit drug use Total AH Mokad, JS Marks, DF Stroup, JL Gerberding. Actual Causes of Death in the United States, JAMA. 2004;291:
TM Mission of Consortium Find and Fill Missing data gaps With reproducible standards
TM HL7 RIM PH Domain Information Model PH Logical Data Model Specificity Other Industry Data Models Physical Database Implementations Messages Environmental Health Tracking, BT, etc. Data
TM CDC and the Consortium Founding Membership All intentions of being active in BOD Decision on leadership position on hold Wants Consortium to: Augment not compete with other partners Help identify and implement needed data standards for population health Serve as a unifying body to state's data standards needs