Spotlight!
Twelve Years of County Level Data On The FHOP
Website!
Twelve Years of County level data on all the MCAH
required birth, death and hospital discharge related MCAH
Indicators on the FHOP website!!
We have been getting feedback that many of the MCAH program
staff and epidemiologists are not aware that most of the data
which is required by the state MCAH Branch for Title V
assessments and reports is already available on the FHOP
website. The data for the periinatal indicators and those
related to mortality and hospital discharge are contained in
county specific files that can be downloaded. The data are
displayed in a set of EXCEL spreadsheets. For each indicator
the set includes a page for: county numerators and
denominators; state numerators and denominators; indicator
definitions; data quality (ie missing or unlikely values) for
that county; a table of rates for the county and state with
confidence intervals for each of the 12 years, and a trend
graph that compares trend lines with a table showing
statistical tests for significance of the various trend lines.
In addition, each county file contains a separate set of
spreadsheets for each indicator for the geographic region that
includes that county with corresponding tables and graphs so
that the county can compare itself to the region as a
whole.
To access these databooks you MUST have a password. You can
access the password request form here
or by contacing FHOP. If you have a password, go to the
web site at www.ucsf.edu/fhop and click CA MCAH Resources.
Then click the first link on the page entitled "California
County Pages and MCAH Data Spreadsheets" This will take you to
a list of counties. Click that link to access your county
page. The password protected section contains all the
spreadsheets.
Please let us know if you have any problems either with
accessing the data or with interpreting it by calling for
technical assistance.
California County MCAH Data
Spreadsheets