Product Releases + Updates

REVISED! The Guidelines on Race/Ethnicity Data Collection, Coding and Reporting is an updated version from the 1999 document. The 1999 version was approved by the California Department of Health Services Executive Committee and have incorporated changes implemented by OMB in the 2000 Census, specifically in multiracial categories. The revised Guidelines were developed by the FHOP Technical Workgroup. Members included representatives from the Center for Health Statistics, Preventive Services Division, Maternal and Child Branch, Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Branch, CCLHDM, and CCLDMCH. They are meant to assist DHS programs and county public health departments in using a standard approach to enable cross comparisons of data among counties and among state programs. The Executive Committe will review by the revised Guidelines with the purpose of requiring uniform reporting for all California Department of Health Services programs.

Useful County Data Resources

The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) team has released more than one hundred new variables that integrate child/adolescent data with adult topics and also introduce new topics specifically for children and adolescents. You can now do more analysis and reporting on survey respondents under age 18, throughout the state of California or by county. New and expanded topics include childcare issues, exposure to violence, firearm usage, physical activity, TV/computer use, injury, and family structure. Please go to www.chis.ucla.edu and login to AskCHIS. You will need to register to look at the data sets.

Trainings

"Evaluate the Accomplishments of Your MCH Objectives" - This workshop is being offered in both Northern California and in Southern California. It is a one day training designed for MCH staff to increase their capacity to develop the evaluation component in their 5-year plan. Content will include: (1) the distinction between monitoring vs. evaluating functions of a local MCH program, (2) developing measurable and reaslitic objectives, (3) developing performance measures to evaluate the accomplishment of objectives, (4) identifying data sources and the utility of a logic model in planning and evaluating a planned intervention. Enrollment for this workshop has already begun! Take advantage of the early bird discount by registering before May 7, 2003. Seats are filling up fast, so reserve your seat by going to: http://www.ucsf.edu/fhop/fhoptrain3.htm.

Spotlight

Exciting FHOP Website News!! An FHOP web search page has been added so that visitors can more easily find what they are looking for. If you would like to find documents and pages on our site that have information on specific topics, you can enter in your search terms in FHOP Search (www.ucsf.edu/fhop/search.htm) and, voila!, if we've got it, you'll see it. Users can also use our search page to link to broader search domains. We've also updated our site to provide summaries of the publications we provide. Hopefully, this will allow you to make decisions about which information will be useful to you BEFORE you take the time to download it.