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MCH Model Indicators Executive Summary (a PDF file) (useful reading for the DataSpeak)
MCH Model Indicators Full Report (a PDF file)
Appendices:
Appendix A: Several views of the MCH Model Indicators
The attached document contains a listing of MCH Model Indicators by importance, domain, category, and population. Additional views of the indicators (e.g., by availability, consistency with Healthy People 2000, data source) can be obtained from the MCH Model Indicators Database.
Appendix B: Descriptions of data sources for health status indicators
This document includes information on a variety of data sources. Information on additional data sources discussed in the final report appendix but not available through this site may be obtained from the Urban Poverty Database Inventory 1992, published by the National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, 154 Haven Ave., New York, NY 10032. The report may be ordered by writing to this address (Attn: Publications), calling (212) 304-7129, e-mailing nccp@columbia.edu, or placing an order through the Center’s web site at http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/ (go to publications, demography).
Appendix C: Special issues regarding data on injuries
The complete appendix is included in the attached document.
Appendix D: Rates based on small numbers
This appendix consists of an article by Paul Buescher entitled Problems with rates based on small numbers published in Statistical Primer, No. 12, April 1997. This article may be obtained from the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics, P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, NC 27626-0538, Phone (919) 733-4728. The article is also scheduled to be posted on the web during the summer of 1998 at http://hermes.sches.ehnr.state.nc.us/SCHS/publications.html.
Appendix E: Model-based (synthetic) estimation
This appendix consists of two parts. The first piece is available on this web site, the second is not.
- Standardization of Rates and Synthetic Estimation
by Deborah Rosenberg, University of Illinois School of Public Health.
- A one-page description on the synthetic estimation process excerpted from Behavioral Health Risks of Pennsylvania Adults 1994: A report of data collected during 1994 for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System prepared by the Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory for the PA Dept. of Health, Division of Health Statistics and Research, P.O. Box 90, Harrisburg, PA 17108-0090.
Appendices F-K are not available for public dissemination.
Appendix F: Existing MCH Data Sets, Spring, 1995
Appendix G: Survey of MCH Leaders, Spring, 1995
Appendix H: Model Data Set Consensus Conference, October, 1995
Appendix I: MCH Information Resource Center Subcontractors Meeting, January, 1996
Appendix J: Review of preliminary health status indicators, September, 1996
Appendix K: Model Indicators Stakeholders Meeting, June, 1997
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