Resource Center

Resource: On-line Tools
Number of Items: 9

Wednesday, October 01, 2008
NH HealthWRQS: Health Risk Factors Online

County-level reports using the 2007 NH Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) are now available online at www.nhhealthwrqs.org. The reports include the most commonly requested health risk factors from the BRFSS, including smoking status, diabetes prevalence, alcohol consumption, obesity, and physical activity. With the addition of the 2007 reports, 2 sets of NH BRFSS reports are now available at the state and county level. The NH BRFSS is an annual health survey conducted as part of a national system of health surveys designed to monitor the prevalence of health conditions and behaviors related to the leading causes of death. The NH BRFSS is carried out by the NH Department of Health and Human Services with the support of, and in cooperation with, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The NH BRFSS has been a source of health related information for NH since 1987. NH HealthWRQS is a web-based data analysis system that produces reports about common community health indicators. The NH HealthWRQS website includes information about the history and future of HealthWRQS, a menu-driven Report Library, a Report request function, and the ability to request access to the HealthWRQS system. The site was created through funding from the CDC Assessment Initiative.

Thursday, May 01, 2008
Effective Advocacy at All Levels of Government

Why should your nonprofit try to change public policy? Is it legal for nonprofits to advocate for policy change? How does the process even work? Find out through this comprehensive on-line tool.

Thursday, June 11, 2009
NH Hospital Scorecard

Assuring a cost-effective, quality health care system is one of the fundamental strategies of our work to “reduce economic barriers to health.” Although health care and hospital services are not something to “shop” for, we all need to know comparative quality and cost information about the health care institutions in our communities. The NH Hospital Scorecard is a way for employers and their employees to begin the conversation about the cost and quality of health care services in our state. Originally incubated in the NH Citizens Health Initiative, the NH Purchasers Group on Health represents the public purchasers of health insurance for 120,000 state, university system, and school and municipal employees and their families.

Monday, August 24, 2009
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration Financing Center of Excellence

SAMHSA's Financing Center of Excellence website features information about health care financing with a special focus on mental health and substance abuse. Using blog-style posts, this site offers original content and news, reports, briefs, scholarly article citations, legislation, and data sets regarding the financing of mental health and substance use treatment and prevention.

Thursday, April 01, 2010
Changing the Conversation About Child and Family Mental Health

In 2008, FrameWorks began a multi-year study of American thinking about child and family mental health. Building on a decade of research on public perceptions of children’s issues, this research was designed to compare expert understanding with public patterns of thinking and to use framing research to close the conceptual gap. The full research design includes both qualitative and quantitative methods, documenting the dominant frames used to explain these issues in media and in expert discourse, as well as providing extensive documentation of how the public hears these communiques. The reports that follow document an evolving “core story” of child and family mental health, using framing techniques to plug the cognitive holes in lay understanding of this critical issue.

Enhancing Program Performance With Logic Models

This course introduces a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education and outreach programs. Module 1 helps program practitioners use and apply logic models. Module 2 applies logic modeling to a national effort to evaluate community nutrition education.

Evaluation Resources

To support a learning organization and to ensure the wise investment of resources, evaluation is critical. Written evaluation plans are developed as part of the program planning process. In recent years, the organization has moved to an outcome-based planning and reporting system with evaluation playing a critical role in learning, program improvement and accountability.

New Hampshire Health Data Inventory

The Health Data Inventory contains health data sources and reports. The Health Data Inventory (HDI) provides useful information about these sources and links to organizations that manage the data. The HDI is not a warehouse of raw data. The Health Data Inventory provides information about data sources including: links to the data sets and reports, the dates of the most recent data available, the geographic level of the analysis, and contact information for the office that stewards the data set and/or distributes the report.

Improving the Public's Health in New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services is working with partners throughout the state on a number of public health performance improvement and planning initiatives. The fundamental purpose and cumulative anticipated results of these efforts is to improve the public's health in New Hampshire.