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Next Webinar Training: Local Data
Spreadsheets - May 22, 2012
The next FHOP training will be "Getting the most
out of your local data spreadsheets: Monitoring your local MCAH
population, assessing trends and identifying disparities".
Registration is required for this free webinar (see training details
below).
This skill-based training will review ways to use the
local data spreadsheets available on FHOP's website and will focus on
practical examples and applications. The training is designed to help
MCAH directors and staff, new and experienced, to get familiar with
local data, describe trends and disparities, and evaluate potential
data quality issues. For more information, click here to go the
FHOP page for the training.
Date:
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Registration:
To register for this meeting
1.
Go to https://cdph-ooa.webex.com/cdph-ooa/j.php?ED=200277947&RG=1&UID=1311228947&RT=MiM0
2. Register for the meeting.
Once the host approves your request, you will receive a confirmation
email with instructions for joining the meeting. Please note that to
join the audio for the webinar, you will need to call in via
telephone (using the toll-free number provided) and to see the
presentation, you will need to be on the computer. The webinar
will be recorded and archived for future viewing.
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Title V MCH Priorities Webinar
Series - Infant Health webinar recording posted
The format of the webinar series combines program
planning, a discussion of evidence-based interventions to address the
problem, and a review of available resources.
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New MCAH Priority Area Fact Sheet posted: Infant
Health
One new fact
sheet has be posted on FHOP's site:
- Infant Health: Why
it matters and what California and LOCAL Maternal, Child, and
Adolescent Health programs are doing to prevent infant death and
disease
They are available at: http://fhop.ucsf.edu/fhop/htm/ca_mcah/fact_sheets.htm. This
joins four fact sheets:
- Breastfeeding in California: How
the California and LOCAL Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health
Programs are collaborating to address challenges and barriers to
breastfeeding
- Healthy Weight and Pregnancy:
What's the problem and what California and COUNTY Maternal,
Child, and Adolescent Health Programs are doing about it
- Teen Pregnancy in California:
What's the problem and what are Maternal, Child and Adolescent
Health Program
Responses
- Preconception Health:
What is it, why it matters, and what we are doing about it
FHOP worked
with the State MCAH Program to identify issues for fact sheets based
on Title V priorities, developed drafts of the fact sheets, and
received feedback from the MCAH Action Executive Committee and Policy
Committee. The purpose of fact sheets is to provide a resource
to use with elected officials and policy makers to educate them about
the costs and benefits of addressing key MCAH issues.
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MCAH New Directors Orientation Recordings - Now
Available Online
A
New MCAH Directors Orientation was held at the May 2011 MCAH Action
meeting. FHOP recorded the training and the recordings are
available online and on DVD. The online recordings are available by clicking here (link
takes you to Google Picasa).
DVDs
are $5 for DVD and shipping. Because this training is not held
yearly, the recording is an excellent resource for new MCAH
Directors. Contact FHOP if you would like a purchase one of the
DVDs. (email FHOP)
The
Orientation includes 9 sections:
1.
New Directors Orientation Welcome and Overview
2.
CDPH MCAH Introduction - State Staff and Resources
3.
CDPH MCAH Presentation of Role of Nurse Consultant and Contract
Manager
4.
CDPH MCAH Presentation on AFA process
5.
CDPH MCAH Presentation on Budgets
6.
CDPH MCAH Presentation on FFP Time Study
7.
CDPH MCAH Presentation on Title V Requirements and Time Study
8.
Local MCAH Directors Panel
9.
Overview and Role of MCAH Action
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New
Reports and Resources
Center
provides printable, easy-to-read Health Profiles of California
counties
Need a
quick snapshot of health in your county? The UCLA Center for
Health Policy Research now has easy-to-read and printable
county-based Health Profiles on
topics ranging from health insurance, obesity, exercise and
more! These Health Profiles were created using data from the
2009 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
Health Profiles contain
information for the state's 58 counties. Specifically, the state's 41
most populated counties each have their own Health Profile. The
remaining 17 counties are grouped into three different Health
Profiles. Sub-county profiles are also available for Los
Angeles County's eight Service Planning Areas and six the six Human
Service Agency Regions in San Diego County. A Statewide
Health Profile examining data from CHIS 2001-2009 is also
included.
The
Global Action Report on Preterm Birth
from the World Health Organization and the March of Dimes
http://www.marchofdimes.com/mission/globalpreterm.html
"Born Too Soon provides the first-ever comparable
country-level estimates for preterm birth in 184 countries. The
report shows that preterm birth rates are on the rise in most
countries, with the result that preterm birth is now the single most
important cause of neonatal deaths (babies under 28 days) and the
second leading cause of death in children under 5.
Born Too Soon
proposes actions for policy, programs and research by all partners -
including government and non-government organizations and the
business community - that, if acted upon, will substantially reduce
the toll of preterm birth, especially in high-burden countries."
AskCHIS
Online Workshop - May 11 and June 8
The Center's Health DATA
Program invites community members to participate in free, online
workshops on May 11 and June 8 that will
demonstrate AskCHIS,
the easy-to-use Web tool that helps you search for statistics on your
county, region or for all of California. The tool uses data from the California
Health Interview Survey and participants
will learn how to formulate data questions, build queries, graph and
export data, and interpret results. Participants can choose which
topics they would like to research including obesity, health care
access, child and adult activity levels and mental health.
Date: May 11
and June 8, 2012
Time: 1 - 3
p.m. on May 11 and 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. on June 8
Cost: Free
Learn more (click
link for registration information)!
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SAS Users Group
FHOP has
started a group for SAS programmers who work with vital
statistics (birth, death, fetal death) or hospital (inpatient,
emergency department, ambulatory) data. The group is intended to
facilitate discussion, answer questions, and access SAS macros
developed by the UCSF Family Health Outcomes Project.
To sign up, CLICK HERE (you
will be taken to a page to join the group and select your email list
preferences).
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CBInfo Users Group
FHOP is
starting a group for users of the California Birth Information System
(CBInfo) - a software package developed by FHOP to improve access to
and utilization of birth certificate data.The group is intended to
help you by providing peer-support for people using or interested in
using CBInfo, to facilitate discussion and question asking and
answering, to provide access to the designer of the CBInfo software
and his programming and trouble-shooting expertise, and to generate
ideas for development of new software features and standardized
reports.
To sign up, CLICK HERE (you
will be taken to a page to join the group and select your email list
preferences).
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Signing up for the FHOP Listserv
Click
on the link at the end of this email and you will be taken to a the
sign-up page, where you can enter your contact information.
Joining the FHOP Listserv will ensure you receive our quarterly
newsletter, data alerts, and training alerts.
You
also can click on this link to be
taken to the listserv sign-up page.
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Family Health Outcomes Project
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