Georgia Deparment of Public Health
Online Analytical Statistical Information System
Reports and Resources
COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT:
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The District Health Planning Training Manual is a guide to using data to make programmatic decisions. This document assists users of OASIS by providing step-by-step processes and templates. Used for planning, identifying target populations, and interpreting standard mortality ratios.
DATA ANALYSES:
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Annual Health Status Measures.
Rates of various Georgia health outcomes and behaviors with time series comparison to the U.S. and Healthy People 2000, 2010 & 2020 Objectives. -
Identifying perinatal risk factors for infant maltreatment: an ecological approach.
Yueqin Zhou, Elaine J Hallisey and Gordon R Freymann. International Journal of Health Geographics, 2006, 5:53. -
Demographic Clusters and Substantiated Infant Abuse and Neglect in Atlanta, 2000-2002.
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Stroke Mortality is Related to Hospital Readiness in a Stroke Belt State.
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Visualization of Changes in the Leading Causes of Premature Death using Histomaps.
DATA QUALITY / POLICY AND STANDARDS (Informatics)
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Gold Standard Data Quality Protocol, 2nd. Ed.
Procedures to assess and improve quality of data collected by the Georgia Department of Public Health. -
Standard Definitions of Public Health Terms and Measures, 2.6
A list of terms related to the measurement of time, mortality, geographic, perinatal, and demographic variables. -
Standard Data Item Properties for Age, Race, Sex (Person); City, State, Street (Place); Dates (Time)
The Department Policy for and Specifications of Select Core Data Items. -
Define your project and system requirements: A guide for program managers and directors.
This is a synopsis of Applying Use Cases: A Practical Guide written by Geri Schneider and Jason P. Winters (1998) and published by Addison-Wesley. The guide includes sections on defining boundaries of an information system and the functionality required of the system. Activity Diagrams are used to model information system functions. -
The Foundations Document
Fundamental Goals that serve knowledge management in the Department of Public Health. -
Strategic Health Information Requirements
Principles applied to the Department’s data for use in a data warehouse. -
Guidelines for Map Presentation
A list of elements to include and presentation methods to consider when preparing mapped health information.
BUILDING A DATA WAREHOUSE:
People ask us "how'd you build a data warehouse?" or "Do we have a data warehouse?" We do. The docs below are materials from Wiki and sqlservercentral in which we've made comments reflecting our approach.
WHAT WE USED TO DO:
VITAL STATISTICS REPORTS 1950-1993:
