Office of Public Health Assessment

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Soft Drink Consumption and Televsion Viewing Among Children and Adolescents (August 2008)

Teen and Adult Suicide (July 2008)

Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection as a Reproductive Health Issue (June 2008)

Center for Health Data Reports and Data Products
New publications for the Center for Health Data are listed by Office. You can also search Utah's online public health documents at the University of Utah, Eccles Health Sciences Library.

• IBIS-PH
  • IBIS Indicator Profiles have the following updates:
    Safe Restaurant Food (updated: 8-05-08)
    Life Expectancy at Birth (updated: 8-01-08)
    Asthma: Adult Prevalence (updated: 8-01-08)
    Asthma Hospitalizations (updated: 7-31-08)
    Asthma Related Emergency Department Visits (updated: 7-31-08)
    Arthritis and Activity Limitation (updated: 7-17-08)
    Lung Cancer Deaths (updated: 7-17-08)
    Breast Cancer Deaths (updated: 7-15-08)
    Cancer Deaths (updated: 7-15-08)
    Cigarette Smoking Among Adults (updated: 7-15-08)
    Secondhand Smoke - Children Exposed (updated: 7-15-08)
    Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents (updated: 7-14-08)
    
    
  • The IBIS Query system has the following updates:
    2007 data added for Birth Query Module (updated: 7-08)
    2007 data added for Fetal Mortality Query Module (updated: 7-08)
    2007 data added for Utah Healthcare Access Survey Query Module (updated: 6-08)
    2007 data added for BRFSS Query Module (updated: 4-08)
    2005 data added for Birth-Death Linked Infant Mortality (Birth Cohort) Query Module (updated: 4-08)
    2006 data added for Birth-Death Linked Infant Mortality (Death Cohort) Query Module (updated: 4-08)
    
  
  
• Office of Health Care Statistics
  • 2006 Utah Hospital and Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center Utilization and Charge Profile for Outpatient Surgery (7-2008)
  • Utah 2006 Ambulatory Public-Use Datafiles (5-2008)


• Office of Public Health Informatics
  • Public Health Informatics Presentation: MyHealthCare in Utah Website (7-2008)
  • Public Health Informatics Presentation: Utah Facility Online Reporting System: From HAIRS to UFORS - the Evolution of a Reporting System (7-2008)
  • Public Health Informatics Presentation: METADATA 101 (6-2008)
  • Public Health Informatics Presentation: Utah's All Payer Database: Public Health Applications (6-2008)
  • Linkage Standard Matters: Using Hospital Discharge Records to Develop Statewide Inpatient Master Index [Poster] (6-2008)
  • The Use of Probabilistic Linkage to Remove Duplicates and Resolve Possible Matches in a Large Statewide Immunization Registry [Poster] (6-2008)


• Office of Vital Records and Statistics
  • Utah's Vital Statistics: Quarterly Report, First Quarter 2008 (6-2008)
  • Utah's Vital Statistics: Marriages and Divorces, 2006 (4-2008)
  • Utah's Vital Statistics: Quarterly Report, Fourth Quarter 2007 (4-2008)


• Office of Public Health Assessment
  • 2007-2008 Utah Healthcare Access Survey Questionnaire (5-2008)
  • Estimated Number and Percentage of Utahns Who Lacked Health Insurance Coverage. 2001, 2003-2007 Utah Healthcare Access Surveys (5-2008)