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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Mary Alice Barth, MIS, Catherine Lyssenko, PhD, and Sandra L Putnam, PhD. Community Health Research Group, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Suite 309, Conference Center Bldg, Knoxville, TN 37996-4133, (865) 974-4511, mbarth@utk.edu
The Health Information Tennessee (HIT) website (server.to/hit) is the innovative product of a partnership of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) and The University of Tennessee Community Health Research Group (CHRG). HIT’s centerpiece is SPOT (Statistical Profiling of Tennessee), which is a user-friendly, data access tool for customizing on-line queries of case-level and aggregate death, birth, and survey data as well as data on hospitals, nursing homes, highway crashes, population, education, communities, and children and youth. Queries produce data tables, pie or bar charts, plots, trends, and maps for counties, regions and Tennessee as a whole. Using SPOT, health indicators can be displayed by age, sex, race, education, poverty status, Hispanic origin, and residence to yield comprehensive profiles of health exposures, risk and need for services in counties and regions of Tennessee. Designed as a vehicle for disseminating health data to county health council for community diagnosis, HIT and SPOT have been used by educators, legislators and government officials, police and safety officials as well as health department staff and the public at the rate of 10,000 hits per day. HIT is the most visited website in Tennessee state government and has democratized access to health data in Tennessee. A focused demonstration of SPOT will show the basic functionality of a query form as well as the variations in output from the range of interactive choices provided. Mortality, crash and survey data will be used to show how SPOT can be used to triangulate on a community health problem.
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Keywords: Internet Tools, Community Health Assessment
Related Web page: hitspot.utk.edu
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
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.