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This outline provides background information and context for the New Mexico Department of Health's Indicator-based Information System for Community Health Assessment (NM-IBIS) project kick-off meeting. It discusses the implementation of NM-IBIS, completed tasks, and future plans. The NM-IBIS aims to strengthen community health assessment capacity and practice in New Mexico by improving data accessibility and supporting local entities in performing meaningful assessments.
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New Mexico’s Indicator-based Information System for Community Health Assessment (NM-IBIS) Project Kick-Off Meeting May 13, 2008
Outline • Background & Context • NM-IBIS Implementation • What’s completed? • What’s next? • Acknowledgments New Mexico Department of Health
Background & Context • Cora – • What it took to get IBIS here • How will IBIS help community health assessment/improvement? • Mike – • ERD Perspective New Mexico Department of Health
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. New Mexico Department of Health
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. New Mexico Department of Health
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. New Mexico Department of Health
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… New Mexico Department of Health
http://ibis.health.state.nm.us New Mexico Department of Health
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. New Mexico Department of Health
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. New Mexico Department of Health
What’s Next? Additional Content
Additional Query Datasets • Cancer Registry? • Administrative Data? • Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data • Emergency Department Data • Infant Mortality? • Census Bureau, others? New Mexico Department of Health
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 New Mexico Department of Health