Title: Reports Released

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Section/SPIG: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

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Reports on South Eastern Pennsylvania's Uninsured and Asian Health:
Since 1983, the Community Health Data Base (CHDB) has provided local health and social services organizations with local, population-based data for health and social service planning, policy and program development. The CHDB is a critical resource for area health and social service agencies and is the only database of its kind, not only in the Delaware Valley, but nationally as well. The central component of the CHDB is the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey. The survey has been conducted nine times since its inception – in 1983, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004. The next survey will be conducted in the summer of 2006. This year, the CHDB produced two reports examining vulnerable populations in the region. Both reports utilize the most recent data available from Philadephia Health Management Corporation's (PHMC) 2004 Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey.

The reports are:

• The Uninsured In Southeastern Pennsylvania


• An Exploration of Asian Health in Southeastern Pennsylvania
  

The reports can be viewed at <www.phmc.org/chdb>. To learn more about CHDB, contact Francine Axler at <Francine@phmc.org> or (215) 985-2521.


Healthy Iowans 2010 Mid-Course Review Released and other updates:
More than 400 Iowans, representing about 200 organizations, were involved in revising and updating Iowa’s state health plan, Healthy Iowans 2010.  Healthy Iowans 2010 Mid-Course Revision is on the Iowa Department of Public Health Web site:  <www.idph.state.ia.us>.  To obtain a CD ROM, contact Dr. Louise Lex, Iowa Department of Public Health, at <llex@idph.state.ia.us>. Presentations from the recent Governor’s Conference on Public Health: Barn Raising V Conference, held July 28-29, are on the event’s Web site: <www.thehealthconference.org>. FITNET, a daily e-mail message about staying healthy in mind, body, and spirit, reaches well over 350,000 people.   To receive the message, send an e-mail to Tim Lane at <tlane@idph.state.ia.us>.