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Data Sources

An annual Community Health Profile is like an annual physical exam. It supports maintaining and improving health by addressing, at the community level, the same two important questions an individual physical exam addresses:  How healthy are we? What would help most?

In order to collect valid and reliable data for a community health profile, it is useful to obtain both primary and secondary information.

Our primary data comes directly from the source through surveys, focus groups and/or interviews.  Our secondary data is collected by an outside group frequently for administrative purposes.

 

 
Primary Data Sources

Our community health profile primary data sources come from focus groups held in the North Hawaii communities involving a broad cross-section of community groups:

 

We also obtained primary data from How’s Your Health, North Hawaii?, www.howsyourhealth.com, which is an internet-based confidential health survey sponsored by the NHOP and designed and managed by Dartmouth Medical School.  This survey gives us aggregate data from people who take the survey from the North Hawaii zip codes.  Caution must be used in interpreting the How’s Your Health data since there are relatively small numbers and it is not a random survey.

 
Secondary Data Sources

 

Our community health profile secondary data comes from several public entities.  Much of the data was initially collected by SMS Research in Honolulu in 2000 and updated by Hawaii Health Information Corporation in 2001 and 2003, and Hawaii Outcomes Institute in 2003.  Data from subsequent years was gathered directly from the secondary sources:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
     

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