Arizona Health Survey
Arizona Health Survey is part of SLHI’s long-term strategy to develop analytic infrastructure network of data, information, knowledge and interpretive frameworks that health care and community health groups can apply in an ever-wider arc of influence and positive effect.
Use of the data is what makes the difference. In 2011 funding partners First Things First and The Governor’s Office of Children, Youth and Families were among the first to have reports produced to inform and support their work. Nationally recognized expert Charles Bruner from the Child & Family Policy Center produced:
- The Healthy Development of Arizona’s Youngest Children: A 21st Century Profile of Opportunity and Challenge with data on overall health status, insurance coverage, analysis of preventive and well-care patterns, nutrition habits, physical activity and more.
- Young Children of South Phoenix: Ensuring Healthy Growth and Development, a companion report that examines growth and change that has occurred in South Phoenix, using both census and Arizona Health Survey data.
Arizona State University’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center produced Adult Substance Abuse in Arizona 2010 for the Arizona Governor’s Office as part of the work of the state Substance Abuse Epidemiology Work Group.
SLHI also developed and released Health Insurance for Adults in Arizona as well as Arizona Adults’ Access to Health Care, and completed substantial work on a number of additional reports that will be produced and released in the 2012 fiscal year.
Just as importantly, the broader community is putting the data to work. 22 data requests have been fulfilled to 22 organizations and individuals for a breadth and depth of analyses such as community health assessments, program evaluation, examining issues and relationships, and applying for federal grants.
AHS is part of SLHI’s long-term strategy to invest in development of an analytic infrastructure of data, information, knowledge and interpretive frameworks that health care and community health groups can apply in an ever-wider arc of influence and positive effect.
