5087.0 Statistics at the State level

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
The purpose of this session is to describe methodology (cost benefit methods, data linkage systems, small area estimation methods analysis methods for community-level data) useful to public health researchers involved in evaluating community and state public health programs.
Session Objectives: Evaluate whether the total costs of the Chicago Cancer Navigation Project (CCNP)can be off-set by survival benefits and savings in lifetime breast cancer attributable costs. Discuss how data linkage between health information systems may be used in public health research. Discuss the application of small area estimation methods in processing statewide community-level health statistics, and explain how community-level data may be to assist prevention program planning and evaluation. Discuss innovative, modern approaches for correct inferences in the analysis of Time Series Cross Section data.
Moderator:
Lei Zhang, PhD MBA

8:30am
Estimating the cost-effectiveness of patient navigation using national cancer data
Talar Markossian, PhD and Elizabeth Calhoun, PhD
     
8:50am
Data Linkage and Public Health Research: Examples from Environmental Epidemiology, and Maternal and Child Health
Wei Yang, PhD, MD
     
9:10am
Use of Community-Level Health Statistics to Address Health Disparities
Wenjun Li, PhD
     
9:30am
Modern Approaches to Analyze Time-Series-Cross-Section Data: An Application to the Analysis of State-Level Longitudinal Data
Jangho Yoon, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Statistics
Endorsed by: Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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