Delaware’s My Healthy Community Data Platform
| Autor: | BA Ian Kozak, Mem Michael Knapp, Marcy Parykaza, Cassandra Codes-Johnson, Tabatha N. Offutt-Powell, Matthew Muspratt, Jd, Mem, Mga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science) business.industry Health Policy Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Psychological intervention Population health Mental health Public health informatics Nursing Informatics Political science Health care Epidemiology medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Delaware Journal of Public Health. 7:58-65 |
| ISSN: | 2639-6378 |
| DOI: | 10.32481/djph.2021.07.012 |
| Popis: | “Delawareans need to have access to usable, meaningful, timely, and high-quality data about the health of the communities in which they live,”1 so that data-driven evidence-based decisions result in community-focused solutions to affect positive change. This statement is the vision of the My Healthy Community (MHC) data portal,2 which serves as Delaware’s population health platform. The MHC platform shares data on a myriad of population health areas such as social vulnerability, community characteristics, the environment (e.g., public and private drinking water, air quality), chronic diseases, mental health and substance use, healthy lifestyles, maternal and child health, health care utilization, and infectious diseases. MHC continues to expand in both data and functionality to serve as a tool to track the outcomes of implementing data-driven population health interventions and utilizing technology to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. Shortly after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic took a foot hold in the United States, in April of 2020, only 11 months after MHC was publicly launched, the site also became Delaware’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) dashboard, presenting statistics on COVID-19 cases, hospitalization, emergency department visits, testing, deaths, vaccination, contact tracing, and in-person contagious school cases. MHC’s origins lie in the intersection between public health informatics and epidemiology. Visionaries within Delaware’s public health agency paved the way to create MHC with the support of DPH leadership and the perseverance and dedication of a small team of public health professionals. With their own unique lenses, one of public informatics and the other of epidemiology, the team’s efforts materialized into a tool that continues to evolve and respond to Delaware’s changing needs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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