Data Analysis Unit

Our Mission:

 

The mission of our Data Analysis unit is to support the work of the Tulare County Public Health Department with timely, accurate, user-friendly, comprehensive health data that will facilitate its use for public health assessment, policy development, and program planning and evaluation.

Key activities of our Analysis Unit include:

* Standardize and make available data on demographics, childhood overweight, hospital discharge diagnoses, health-related quality of life, and other indicators of community health.
*Provide epidemiology support and training among Department programs and offices and community partners, especially toward chronic disease prevention and where such capacity does not currently exist.
*Collect, analyze and share information about health conditions, risks and resources for county residents.
*Centralize technology, training, and resources for data collection and analysis including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) within the Department.
*Standardize and make available data on demographics, childhood overweight, hospital discharge diagnoses, health-related quality of life, and other indicators of community health.
*. Participate in the conduct of special studies and projects, especially those that integrate efforts among Department programs and offices and community partners

Neighborhood Place-Based Approach

Our outreach, planning, and education activities support neighborhood improvement efforts by working with City, County and community partners to:
* Design community surveys to identify problems, solutions and resources.
* Analyze and interpret survey results.
* Organize presentations and forums to discuss survey results and plan action

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Locally Produced Reports

 
Communicable Disease Reports
Tulare County Vital Statistics Report 2010 (PDF, 343KB)

 

Tulare County Mortality Report 2005 (PDF, 12.5MB).  This report details the top causes of mortality and premature mortality among the cities and regions of Tulare County.

 

Data from other sources:

Current (2011) County Health Status Profiles (PDF) and the Tulare County Health Data Sheet (Excel) - click here. Please note the Profiles are big files and may take some time to load.  The County Health Status Profiles contains county data for selected health indicators as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and modified by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in collaboration with the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO).  For prior years Profiles, click here.

Kidsdata.orgThe Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health has expanded www.kidsdata.org, its children's health database, so that it now includes Tulare county and county Comparisons.  Kidsdata.org is a wide-ranging clearinghouse of information on more than 250 separate measures of children's health and well-being, documenting issues ranging from academic pressure to weight. The site includes data, survey results, listings of local resources, and links to related websites, along with a "reading room" of news stories and research studies on key issues. All the data are drawn from widely accepted public sources. Tulare report report Provided by Kidsdata.org

County Health RankingsA collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, has produced the first-ever nationwide County Health Rankings. The Rankings show how counties measure up within each state in terms of how healthy people are, how long they live, and how important factors affect their health, such as tobacco use, obesity, access to healthcare, education, community safety, and air quality. The rankings help demonstrate how where we live, learn, work and play influence how healthy we are and how long we live. Tulare County Snapshot

County-Specific Results from the California Healthy Kids Survey
West Ed
WestEd analyzes California Healthy Kids Survey data at the district, school, and county level, and presents these data in a variety of report formats. The comprehensive survey provides a range of information on health risks and resilience.

California Health Interview Survey
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
This telephone survey of children, adolescents, and adults from all over California covers dozens of health topics and provides statewide and local data. The AskCHIS online database allows users to customize data by locale, age group, race/ethnicity, income, and other categories.

Network for a Healthy California - GIS Map Viewer
The Network for a Healthy California mapping application is an interactive, internet-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that allows users to view and query mapped nutrition data. The application contains a rich set of nutrition and other health related data,