 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Dennis J Dobbs, Chicago Department of Public Health, 333 South State Street Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60604, 312-745-3204, dobbs_dennis@cdph.org and Sandra Thomas, MD, MS, Director of Epidemiology, Chicago Department of Public Health, 333 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60604.
Chicago community composite score: An approach to community risk estimation
The Epidemiology Program of the Chicago Department of Public Health recently created an innovative methodological technique for estimating health risks of communities. The technique allows researchers and/or policy developers the ability to perform health assessments in the absence of directly collected data for neighborhoods or other defined geographies where demographic distributions are known. The Chicago Community Composite Score, or CCS, compares communities with respect to the city of Chicago as a whole according to their demographic risk for various health outcomes/behaviors. The Chicago CCS entails five steps:
1. Development of ordinal scale weighting factors 2. Cross-tabulation of variables by selected demographic factors and other known associations (using local Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - BRFSS - data) 3. Weighting factors applied to BRFSS results to produce categorical weights 4. Application of weights to census data for each neighborhood 5. Mapping of data/import to GIS software
By projecting the local BRFSS results onto community census data for Chicago, risk can be estimated for a variety of health behaviors and outcomes relative to other neighborhoods and the city in its entirety.
Learning Objectives of the Presentation
Each participant will be able to
1. Develop a similar plan using census data and survey data, for estimating outcome/behavior risk in an area where demographic distributions are known and area-level data does not exist or is outdated. 2. Apply methodology to own jurisdiction, be it community, city, county, or region.
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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.