Updates to AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition (NE)©, released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, include 2013-2014 estimates from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), new non-CHIS data, and changes that make finding quality, authoritative health information easier and faster.
To further the Center's mission of making critical health information available for all to use, AskCHIS NE now includes additional non-CHIS measures related to air quality and pollution burden from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and income inequality -- the GINI index -- from the American Community Survey (ACS).
Also, the dashboard now includes socio-demographic visualizations for each queried location, providing contextual information such as race/ethnicity groups, poverty level distribution, and population by age. "The newest update to AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition brings valuable contextual information about communities across California," said Bogdan Rau, CHIS project coordinator. "From pollution burden, to ozone concentration, to contextual socio-demographic visualizations, these new data will help our users paint a better picture of California’s local communities." AskCHIS NE, which provides health information for California's ZIP codes, cities, counties, and legislative districts, is supported by Kaiser Permanente and the California Wellness Foundation.
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.