Number of CT Department of Public Health databases that meet data collection policy standards
Current Value
19
Definition
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).