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| Greetings!
Thank you for your patience as we work to streamline and improve the delivery of our newsletter. It is important to us that we provide you with useful and interesting news items in a manner that is convenient and appealing to you.
In recent months you may have noticed changes to the FHOP Express. We have been working to upgrade the appearance as well as expand the content. We appreciate your feedback, so if there is anything you'd like to see in upcoming issues of the Express, please let us know.
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| EpiHOSP 2.0 Training is SCHEDULED!
If you are planning to attend but waiting for approval from your county, please submit registration form with (pending approval from county) so we can put you on our training list.
EpiHOSP 2.0 is a one-day training designed for MCH staff to learn and practice EpiHOSP 2.0. EpiHOSP 2.0 is a Windows-based software program for use in analyzing hospital discharge data files provided to counties by FHOP. EpiHOSP 2.0 retains the essential functions of its predecessor, EpiHOSP, but the operation, look and feel are significantly different from the old version and users are encouraged to participate in this training before attempting to use the software on their own.
SORRY, THIS TRAINING HAS BEEN POSTPONED! |
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| Home Visiting
Home Visiting Survey for Pregnant Women, Newborn Infants, and/or High-Risk Families
The report of the findings from the MCAH ACTION survey “Home Visiting for Pregnant Women, Newborn Infants, and/or High-Risk Families” has been released. The report was e-mailed to all MCAH Directors and to State staff. It will also be available on the FHOP website.
The MCAH ACTION Home Visiting Priority Workgroup, with assistance from FHOP, developed this survey which was sent to MCAH Directors in California’s 61 health local health jurisdictions (LHJ).
The objectives of the survey were: 1) To develop a profile of the number and types of public health department home visiting programs serving this population; 2) To provide information to promote networking and collaboration among counties with home visiting programs; and 3) To provide data to inform potential health care legislation that would include home visiting services as a covered benefit.
The MCAH Directors were asked to distribute the survey to home visiting programs in the public health department serving woman, children and families. Surveys were returned from 34 LHJs. The report presents the results compiled from the surveys, reflecting the great variation in approaches to providing home visiting services in California.
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| Web Survey
Please share your opinions about the FHOP website if you haven't done so! FHOP has developed a brief questionnaire about the content and usability of its website. Results willhelp determine content areas and resources to focus on in the future and help improve the website's value to our users. Please take this opportunity to express your needs and ideas! The survey can be accessed at the following link: FHOP Web Survey |
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| The Impact of Birth Certificate Data Quality in California
on Birth Related Health Indicators In 2003
The California Center for Health Statistics (CHS) initiated an effort to improve the quality of information for the certificate of live births. Those hospitals with the greatest percentages of missing values were contacted and offered training for their birth clerks.
In the past two years, CHS held regional trainings for birth clerks throughout the state, targeting areas with hospitals having the poorest performance. Significant improvements are reported to have resulted from this approach.
The Family Health Outcomes Project (FHOP) was asked to exploring the impact of improbable values (missing or out-of-range) in birth certificate data on the calculation of health indicators.This reports describes the impact of variation in data quality as assessed by both missing and improbable values in 1992 and 2003 on rates of low birthwieght and gestational age frot he state and one local health jurisdiction.
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