Institute for PUBLIC Health INFORMATICS AND RESEARCH
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The Center
for Health Statistics assesses and monitors the health status of people in
the community, identifies and diagnoses community health problems and
hazards, as well as informs and educates the community about the findings.
The Center
for Health Statistics facilitates access to a wide range of census based
and public use databases including but not limited to: Vital Statistics,
Notifiable Diseases, Cancer Registry, Communicable Diseases, Linked Files,
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, U.S. Census Bureau and
Hospital Discharge and Emergency Room data. The Center for Health Statistics provides GIS mapping, statistical analysis, and health data in response to data requests for educators, researchers, community organizations, health care providers, faith based organizations, individuals, and UF faculty. The Center regularly provides health data to various programs within the local Health Department and to other health related agencies within the county The Center issues bimonthly reports featuring national progress, challenges and disparities, a Healthy People 2010 community report card, a health disparities status report and an analysis of all of the data available for a selected health issue, and feature articles on local programs and projects aimed at addressing the health issue.
top The Institute provides program evaluation support including grant development support for programs within the County Health Department and for community based organizations. Examples of externally funded projects include evaluation of College of Medicine initiatives designed to train pediatric residents in a broad range of public and community health competencies, community based projects to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, federally funded projects to evaluate an HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program for prisoners, programs to enhance health care services for infants and mothers, and projects to enhance child health through working relationships with child care centers. Quality Improvement and data analysis is also provided through the Institute for programs such as the local Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs, school-based initiatives to reduce child obesity and an impact assessment of Psychiatric Consultant Model in Pediatric clinics on Physician diagnostic and referral behaviors.
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Community Health Research has a primary emphasis on Community-Based
Participatory Research (CBPR) and Translational Research.
The purpose of community-based participatory research is for the
community to guide research for its interest in solving community
problems, rather than serving as a “research guinea pig” for other
institutions. Translational
research is designed to adapt and apply the large body of public health
science to those communities that have not benefited from that research.
Mixed method approaches using both quantitative and qualitative
research methods and designs are used in these efforts to empower
communities to use research as a community problem-solving tool.
As an example, the Center applied quantitative and qualitative
research methodologies in completing a major statewide needs assessment
for HIV/AIDS health care in
top Center for Public Health Informatics The Center of Public Health Informatics main goal is to facilitate Health Information Exchange in the community. It has convened a group of community stakeholders to develop HIE. The Center staffs the operational arm of the Jacksonville Health Information Network (JHIN). The JHIN is a data repository exchange that houses information on the uninsured and underinsured. The Center also provides administrative support for the Northeast Florida Health Informatics Consortium (NEFHIC). NEFHIC is a consortium of community partners that promotes and helps to realize the use of electronic health information to improve medical care and improve public health. Our vision is that the Northeast Florida Community can appropriately access, utilize and benefit from interoperable and secure electronic health information.
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Quality Management and Planning Program Quality Management & Planning (QM& P) is comprised of strategic planning, quality improvement, quality assurance, and customer satisfaction. The strategic planning component consists of developing an organizational profile so that everyone is on the same page of who DCHD is and what DCHD does, conducting a SWOT analysis to determine DCHD’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, reviewing measures to determine priorities, and facilitating the strategic planning meeting for DCHD leaders to provide a roadmap of how we are going to achieve the DCHD mission to promote, protect and improve the health of all people in greater Jacksonville, Florida. The 2nd component quality improvement is used to make continual improvement to the DCHD to make us financially viable, efficient, customer pleasing, positive outcome oriented, disaster/emergency prepared, and have great relations with our local, state, and federal partners. We do this by developing a culture of continuous improvement that empowers our employees to resolve issues as they occur. By conducting Quality Improvement projects, decisions are based on factual data and not on instinct or gut feelings. The 3rd component of QM&P is Quality Assurance. This involves keeping measures of everything that is important to DCHD and making sure that we not only meet the minimum requirements of our stakeholders, but that we exceed our targets to become a leader among other County Health Departments. We also look at data over time to look at trends, comparisons, and monitor improvements made. This component also involves self assessments of our organization to tell us if the DCHD is a role model organization regarding leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, data and information management, workforce focus, processes management and results and outcomes. Finally we are responsible for doing internal audit to prepare our organization for actual audits from outside entities to obtain grants and funding or to maintain regulatory compliance and accreditations. We also maintain policies, process maps, forms and other documents on the intranet to help us accomplish this The 4th and final component is customer satisfaction. We monitor customer satisfaction, provide customer satisfaction training, conduct customer satisfaction surveys, and mange the customer complaint/comment system for DCHD. Our plan is to not only satisfy all our customers of DCHD but to exceed their expectations so that we are known throughout the state as the provider of choice.
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Institute for PUBLIC Health INFORMATICS AND Research 900 University Boulevard North, Suite 604 Jacksonville, FL 32211 (904) 253-1370
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