March 23 Sacramento training: How healthy is your legislative district?
Learn how to use AskCHIS© and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition©, the free online health data tools of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
ACA repeal. Medi-Cal populations. Immigrant health. Diabetes and obesity. Learn how to quickly get free, comprehensive health data on these and other hot topics at this free introduction to the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and its user-friendly Web tools, AskCHIS and AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition.
In this training tailored to members of the California delegation, their staff and the legislative community, participants will learn how to access health data by legislative district, as well as by city, ZIP code, county, region and statewide. Learn how to compare data and to trend more than a decade's worth of health statistics to identify health problems in specific districts. Also, see how to easily map, chart and export data.
Hear from health policy experts, including Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, which conducts CHIS, as well as Ninez Ponce, CHIS principal investigator and professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, along with CHIS Director Todd Hughes. CHIS Project Coordinator Bogdan Rau will also present.
CHIS is the nation's largest state health survey and the definitive source of health data on California's children, teens, adults and elders. More than one million queries have been made using AskCHIS and tens of thousands of policymakers, researchers, advocates, media and others depend on CHIS data for answers to the most pressing health questions affecting Californians.
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What: AskCHIS legislative health data training, Sacramento
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m., PST
Where: UC Center Sacramento, 1130 K St., Ste. LL22. Sacramento, CA 95814
Take elevator down to the Lower Level. Turn left outside the elevator. Conference Room A is down the hall and on the right. The official name is LL3.
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For more information, please email healthpolicy@ucla.edu.
CHIS is conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research incollaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Care Services.
About the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR) is one of the nation’s leading health policy research centers and the premier source of health policy information for California. UCLA CHPR improves the public’s health through high quality, objective, and evidence-based research and data that informs effective policymaking. UCLA CHPR is the home of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) and is part of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
