Community and Population Health
CHIR is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of its community and focuses much of its efforts on research that puts understandable and actionable information into the hands of people that can use it. From commissioned studies on various health issues to our series of Community Reports, CHIR extends its research across the continuum from policymakers to health care providers to you. Community reports are produced at the request of CHIR’s internal and external stakeholders and are designed to delve into issues relevant to the community and provide actionable information using CHIR’s unique research tools and abilities.
Areas:
Health and Health Care Utilization
- Emergency Department Utilization
- Racial Disparities in Health Care
- Health Patterns of Hispanic and non-Hispanic Children: this NIH sponsored study focuses on the health and health care utilization of children in Yuma, Arizona where children of Hispanic or Latino origin constitute a majority of the child population.
- Asthma in Maricopa County
- Children and Diabetes: A Report to the Yuma Community
- Children and Thyroid Disease: A Report to the Yuma Community
- Health Insurance in Arizona: The Children of Yuma County 1999-2004
- Kids and Asthma: A Report to the Yuma Community
The Health Impact of our Environment
Arizona Child Fatality Review
With its 2001 release of Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, the Institute of Medicine furthered defined its vision of what the health care community needs to do in order to close the gap between what is theoretically quality care and what is in practice. CHIR has been conducting research on a number of evaluation of care and quality of care fronts.
IOM Definition of Quality:
“The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.”
Better Quality Information for Medicare Beneficiaries
As part of the federal government’s transparency initiative for value-driven health care, CHIR was selected as one of six national demonstration sites to test and evaluate health care outcome measures for Medicare beneficiaries. A collaborative national effort sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, this pilot project will provide a national framework for performance measurement and public reporting as well as test the most effective methods to provide consumers with meaningful information to assist them in selecting a physician or physician group.
Patient Safety
Arizona HealthQuery provides CHIR researchers with an excellent tool in which to look for opportunities to enhance patient safety, specifically by tracking adverse events. CHIR currently is exploring several different partnerships with collaborating researchers to investigate.
The Phoenix Healthcare Value Measurement Initiative
In 2005, a group of national and state leaders began discussions about health care issues in the region. This group of industry, health care providers, insurers, and community stakeholders all with the common goal of quality, more affordable health care have agreed to partner together to address these issues. CHIR’s role as the neutral, third party entity forms the basis of this project.
Publications (13)
Center for Health Information & Research Overview
Health Insurance In Arizona: The Children Of Yuma County 1999-2004
Asthma In Maricopa County
Emergency Department Visits
Early Patterns of Care for Occupational Back Pain
Prognosis and the identification of workers risking disability: Research issues and directions for future research
Kids And Asthma
Children and Thyroid Disease
Children and Diabetes
The effects of access to pediatric care and insurance coverage on emergency department utilization
The Yuma Project on uninsured children
Dispelling the myths about work disability
Health reform and epilepsy