Regional Health Monitoring and Surveillance: Demonstration of Our

17.08.2010 Terveytemme.fi / Timo Koskela 1

Regional Health Monitoring and Surveillance:

Demonstration of Our Health Portal

www.terveytemme.fi


Terveytemme.fi – “Our Health” portal

• Interactive health portal

– Web-based tool for the visualization of health and wellbeing indicators

– Interactive user interface (dashboard) with linked maps, charts and tables

– Short descriptions of indicators and links to additional information

• Aims:

– To provide a consistent, comparable and balanced overview of the population’s health

– To make health related information more easily available


Main Objectives and Users

• Objectives include:– To facilitate the statutory monitoring of the

population’s health and wellbeing and monitoring of differences between population groups

– To support planning and assessment of regional plans and programmes, municipal strategies and welfare reports

• Users incluce:– Regional and municipal decision-makers and

senior officials

– Specialists in promoting health and wellbeing

– Ministry of Social Affairs and Health


Regional health monitoring –Health indicators

• Key principle - limited number of indicators

– Goal is to provide the most useful indicators currently available

– Currently includes 21 indicators related to health status, health behaviour, risk factors and mortality

• Selection and definition of the indicators

– Key indicator development programme (INDI) atTHL 2009-2012

– 3 indicator working groups: health, well-being and services

– Current health indicators will be updated based on the INDI programme definitions


Interpretation of the indicators

• Comparison and benchmarking

– Age-standardised indicators - allows comparison between regions and population groups

• Reliability of the results

– Confidence intervals presented with barcharts -allows to evaluate the accuracy of the results

• Related and supporting information

– Definition and relevance of the indicator

– Description of calculation/analysis methods

– Description of data source and data quality

– Links to additional information


Current data sources

• Population studies:

– ”Health Behavior and Health among the Finnish Adult Population” (annual postal survey since 1978)

– The National FINRISK Study (since 1972)

• Nationwide registers:

– The National Causes-of-Deaths Register

– The Finnish Cardiovascular Diseases Register

– The Finnish Cancer Registry

• Separate reports of population studies:

– Children’s Health Study (LATE 2008)

– Regional Health and Well-being Study (ATH 2010)


Demonstration of Terveytemme.fi

• Main Web site ’Our Health’:– www.terveytemme.fi

• Currently in development:– www.terveytemme.fi/cancer

– www.terveytemme.fi/kouluterveys

• Separate reports of health and well-being population studies:

– www.terveytemme.fi/lastenterveys– www.terveytemme.fi/ath








Health inequalities – Population group comparison by region, gender and education level

Alcohol related deaths, potential years of life lost: P-Savo region and Finland

www.terveytemme.fi


Web site content structure –Indicator data and metadata production

Bar chart(PNG)

InstantAtlas

report

(Flash)

Bar charts(PHP)

Descriptive

metadata

(Wiki)

Indicator data(XML)

Indicators

- Codes- Names

Dimensions

- Codes- Names

Indicator data (table):

Estimates, confidence intervals,

number of cases

by region and population group(SAS / R)

Report front page

(HTML)

WWW-server

Bar chart

production

(R)

Data

transformation

(SAS / Excel)

Indicator metadata

(HTML)


Publishing indicator data into Atlas report –InstantAtlas data schema (XML)


Thank you for your attention!

Contact:

Timo Koskela

[email protected]

www.terveytemme.fi

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Regional Health Monitoring and Surveillance: Demonstration of Our