Goals: The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) will disseminate its results as widely and as promptly as possible to maximize the impact of the survey on health policy and health promotion in California. CHIS strives to make data as fully available as possible, subject to stringent confidentiality and privacy protections for respondents.
Target Audiences: CHIS dissemination will target multiple audiences that can make use of the survey’s results. Public-sector audiences include: county health departments; programs in the state Department of Health Services; policy makers at the local, state, and national levels; community-based organizations; and advocacy groups for specific interests (e.g., child, adolescent, or elder health) and California’s diverse multi-cultural and -linguistic communities. Other audiences include media, analysts and researchers, and health plans and providers.
Dissemination Techniques: CHIS will employ four major techniques to disseminate its data and results. First, printed products will include a statewide results report and topic-specific reports, as well as policy briefs and periodic newsletters and data updates. Second, CHIS will have an extensive website, with pages tailored to the specific needs of diverse audiences. The website will also include an interactive query capability where users can obtain tabular and graphical data output, plus downloadable public use datasets. Third, a data access center will allow users to access data in more detail than is contained in public-use files, in an environment that protects respondents’ confidentiality. Fourth, CHIS will provide extensive technical assistance, including presentations, workshops, data estimates, small area estimates, and expert consultation for analysts and researchers.
Learning Objectives: The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) is a large population-based assessment of health and health care access designed to provide estimates at the local level and for California's ethnically diverse population. This session will provide information on the use of CHIS data to measure health disparities based on race/ethnicity, income, age, gender and sexual orientation, immigration status and citizenship, and geography, including urban-rural place of residence. Presenters will describe scientific and political factors involved in the development of CHIS; the design of the 55,000 household CHIS sample; methods of assuring quality of health, health insurance, access, and other measures; methods of multicultural and linguistic adaptation of survey measures; confidentiality protection policies; and the dissemination of data and results to diverse users.
Keywords: Population, Data Collection
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.