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DPH Data Collection/Quality Improvement

Number of CT Department of Public Health databases that meet data collection policy standards

Current Value

19

Q3 2015

Definition

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Story Behind the Curve

Since its inception in October 2013, the CT DPH Data Collection Quality Improvement Committee has reviewed, on a quarterly basis, the list of databases that did not meet the minimum standards of the CT DPH Policy on Collecting Sociodemographic Data. The curve demonstrates the number of databases that have reached compliance since 2013 due to work of the committee members who have reached out to database owners and worked with them to achieve compliance when possible. The committee's target for year 1 was 14 to 16 databases and for year 2 the target was 20. By the end of the 2nd year the committee reached 19 compliant DPH databases.

Partners

Live Healthy Connecticut (the Coordinated Chronic Disease Plan) builds on promising recent efforts. Since 1998, the Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity has worked collaboratively with partners, most notably, the Connecticut Multicultural Health Partnership, to address health disparities through systems changes. These efforts have included the statewide promotion of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards, and the Department of Public Health’s chronic disease programmatic and data and surveillance activities related to specific priority populations.

What Works

Action Plan

As a first step, the Department of Public Health will collect timely and appropriate data on the social determinants of health and indicators of social disadvantage like income and education level. Live Healthy Connecticut (the Coordinated Chronic Disease Plan) identifies health equity indicators across all priority areas. Seventeen (17) indicators in the full set track a dimension of health equity. Live Healthy Connecticut identifies Health Equity indicators that will help strengthen the Department of Public Health’s capacity to implement and monitor data collection as outlined in the Department of Public Health's Policy on Collecting Sociodemographic Data (2008).

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