• 60,000 geographic location requests
• 30,000 questions asked
• 1,600 users
Since November 2014, 1,600 people have searched for health estimates nearly 30,000 times about a wide range of health topics in close to 60,000 locations across California using AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition© (NE), the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research’s user-friendly, ZIP-code-level health statistics Web tool.
Granular data
AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition© (NE) was created in response to demand for micro-level data. Nearly 90 percent of NE queries looked at either ZIP-code-level or city-level data, with ZIP codes being by far the most popular search (67 percent of all queries). The tool can also look at health data by legislative district. An existing companion Web tool, AskCHIS©, allows users to find health data at the county, region and state levels.
Most requested: Chronic disease, insurance status
AskCHIS NE© has helped users search topics ranging from children's physical activity to chronic disease to rates of insurance and more. The most popular topics over the past year include adult diabetes, adult obesity, child/teen asthma, food insecurity and adult uninsured rates.
Big impact
Numerous county agencies and cities, such as Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Sacramento County and the City of Long Beach, now incorporate AskCHIS NE© ZIP-code-level data into their community health dashboards. AskCHIS NE© has also been used as a source for health information in transportation programs administered by the California Department of Transportation.
Continuing our mission
Center staff are creating and identifying additional indicators for AskCHIS NE©. With the help of our partners — Kaiser Permanente, The California Wellness Foundation, The California HealthCare Foundation, and First Five California — over the coming months, NE will be updated with more and up-to-date health estimates for California’s diverse population.
AskCHIS Neighborhood Edition© is a service of the Center’s California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest state health survey.
Happy birthday, AskCHIS NE©!
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. For more information, visit healthpolicy.ucla.edu.