Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #116452

Susan Brutschy, BA, Applied Survey Research, P.O. Box 1927, Watsonville, CA 95077, 831.728.1356, susan@appliedsurveyresearch.org

The website is raising awareness of key issues that impact children in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, California. The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health developed Kidsdata.org, a website presenting data about children ages 0-18 in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties and comparable data in California and across the United States. The website lists and tracks 30 health topics while providing an analysis on how children are faring in each topic area, relevant resources, and related news and research. The website consolidated children and youth data in one location and make the data easily accessible to the general public, community organizations, government agencies, the media, etc.

Applied Survey Research worked with the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health to determine the top 30 indicators of children's well-being to include on the website. The indicators fall into the areas of child safety, education, emotional and behavioral health, family economics, physical health, and demographic information. Individuals may access 185 data tables and a variety of maps displaying how children are faring in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Community organizations are using this database to apply for grants to bring more money to the community.

Learning Objectives:

• 1.Identify how a comprehensive web-based database increases access of data to the general population.
• 2.Describe how comprehensive web-based databases can raise awareness for key issues.
• 3.Articulate how the general public, community organization access and use available data through a comprehensive database.

Keywords: Data Collection, Children

Related Web page: www.kidsdata.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.