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Additional Resources
& Information
Publications
The MCHIRC develops original analyses and policy reports addressing important
issues in MCH data collection and analysis.
 U.S.
Teens in Our World: Understanding the Health of U.S. Youth in Comparison
to Youth in Other Countries
This report uses data from the 1997-98 Health Behavior in School-aged
Children survey, conducted in 29 countries, to compare U.S. teens
with their peers in other nations on indicators of health in the
context of family, school, and peers. These international comparisons
demonstrate common factors and highlight differences associated with
cultural influences; in addition, they show health-related characteristics
that are common to adolescents at specific developmental stages regardless
of nationality.
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Maternal and Child Health Promotion: Redefining the Vision
and Rebuilding the Data Strategy to Promote the Health of the Nation's
Children and Families
- by Donna Petersen, ScD; Michelle Bajjalieh, MPH; and Greg
Alexander, MPH, ScD.
Maternal and child health programs and professionals assume leadership
for a broad mission: to protect, promote, and assure the health of
women and children. This paper proposes that MCH enhance its leadership
role and foster the continued development of this critical area of
public health by directly supporting and reinforcing a shift toward
the promotion of health, beyond the prevention and treatment of disease.
The paper outlines the theoretical underpinnings of a shift from
disease prevention toward health promotion, and discusses the data
collection and analysis strategies that will be necessary at the
Federal and State levels to support such a shift.
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Trend Analysis and Interpretation: Key Concepts and Methods
for Maternal and Child Health Professionals
- by Deborah Rosenberg, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago.
A central responsibility of public health agencies is monitoring
trends in rates of disease and death over time. As public health
activities increasingly shift to the local level, this trend analysis
focuses on smaller populations and geographic areas, raising important
statistical issues. This report explores conceptual and methodological
issues pertaining to the analysis of trend data, including the advantages
and disadvantages of various statistical approaches and the presentation
and interpretation of data.
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Model School Health Information System: Final Report
-by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of
Family and Community Health.
A child's ability to learn is directly influenced by his or her
health status, and improving health is likely to enhance educational
achievement. The collection and monitoring of data on children and
youth in school is an important component of program and policy development
for improving the health and well-being of all children and youth.
The Model School Health Information System (MSHIS) was designed to
permit data analysis for the purpose of needs assessment and program
monitoring, planning and evaluation at state and local levels. This
report describes the development of this system and presents a set
of model indicators that can be used to standardize school health
data collection across states, report health status data and school
health service use from grades K-12, and test the feasibility of
using a unique identifier to establish an epidemiological database
on the health of school-age children.
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Maternal and Child Health Model Indicators: Final Report
- by the MCH Model Indicators Working Group.
This document presents The MCH Model Indicators,
a collection of measures that, taken together, gives an indication
of the health
of mothers and children and corresponding needs for specific actions.
This set of indicators, developed by an interdisciplinary working
group under the oversight of the MCH Information Resource Center,
has a broad mission: to provide a panoramic view of the health of
mothers and children, within a framework that encourages problem-solving.
They include indicators capable of serving such diverse functions
as needs assessment, policy and program development, evaluation,
resource allocation, program and policy monitoring, quality assurance,
and accountability. This document includes the full set of indicators,
the rationale for each set of indicators, and a description of the
process of indicator development.
An Executive Summary is available
as well, which summarizes the full report and includes a table
listing the indicators by importance,
domain, category, and population group.
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Useful Links
Numerous resources exist on the national, state and local levels to provide
training, technical assistance, and resources to help meet MCH data and analytic
needs. A current list of data-related links appears below; if you know of
others, please email us at mchirc@hsrnet.com and
we will add them to the list.
- The Data Resource Center is a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), housed at the Oregon Health & Science University, and funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health allows users
to search and display charts and tabular findings from individual survey
items as well as derived key child health measures from the National Survey of Children's Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. The user-friendly site can even display state profiles,
rankings, and information for key demographic groups (e.g., child's
age, sex, race and ethnicity, household income, insurance status and type),
all free-of-charge and available 24 hours a day.
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MCH Analytic Skills Online project uses Internet-based technologies
to provide analytic skills training for MCH professionals. The site
offers tutorials, technical briefs, reference materials, discussions,
and live
events.
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Title V Information System offers an electronic database
of information collected through the Title V Block Grant applications
from the 59 States
and Territories. The site allows you to search the database and
download state-specific
information.
- The Healthy People 2010 site provides
up-to-date information about the current health goals for the nation.
- The National Center for Education in MCH offers
research and data tools and a database of MCH publications, many of them
difficult to find in traditional
libraries or databases.
- The Research Forum on Children,
Families, and the New Federalism provides
a clearinghouse and an online database with summaries of welfare
research projects.
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