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Importance of Local Data and Resource Allocation for Effective Successful Public Health Interventions to Reduce COVID-19 Transmission: Commentary on COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators: A Predictive Local Data Model for Equity in Public Health Decision-Making.
Sondik E , Fielding J . Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021 18 (10) The article, COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators: Predictive Local Data Model for Equity in Public Health Decision-Making (2021), is an important contribution to identifying and prioritizing the needs of Los Angeles' public healthcare in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. |
Championing partnerships for data equity
Ponce NA , Bautista R , Sondik EJ , Rice D , Bau I , Ro MJ , Tseng W . J Health Care Poor Underserved 2015 26 6-15 Good population health data are often taken for granted, and the people and organizations that gather it are often unsung heroes. For communities of color, immigrants, the LGBTQ population, and other special populations, such as the 50 ethnic and 100 language groups that make up Asian Americans (AAs) and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs),1 generating good population-representative data continues to be a major challenge. For AAs and NHPIs, characteristics of good population data are in-language administration and cultural adaptation of surveys, detailed collection of ethnic groups within the AA and NHPI aggregate categories, and adequate samples for reportable estimates, oversampling of smaller ethnic groups—elements that were non-existent 30 years ago. Nationally, AA and NHPI population health data today are products of the mettle, vigilance, and constant relay of data heroes representing many sectors and communities who have paved the way for all individuals to be recognized and counted. With that understanding, we seek to document the AA and NHP story beginning in 1985, with the hopes of inspiring and informing future data equity efforts. | In 1985, Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Margaret M. Heckler’s landmark report, Black and Minority Health,2 considered AAs and NHPIs as one aggregate group. The report depicted an AA and NHPI population that lived longer, had lower infant mortality rates and had fewer excess deaths in several disease categories. This approach of aggregated statistics was troubling in two ways: First, the Asian Pacific Islander catchall category did not inform specific efforts needed to improve the health of distinct [End Page 6] AA and NHPI cultural and linguistic groups. Second, the aggregated picture of good health was driven largely by AA and NHPI segments with more favorable health and economic well-being, perpetuating a model minority myth, and thus denying needed resources for vulnerable constituents of this group. |
Progress toward the Healthy People 2010 goals and objectives
Sondik EJ , Huang DT , Klein RJ , Satcher D . Annu Rev Public Health 2009 31 271-81 4 p folliwng 281 Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive framework for improving the health of Americans, built on the foundation of several decades of predecessor initiatives. Its two overarching goals, to "[i]ncrease the quality and years of healthy life" and "[e]liminate health disparities," subsume 28 focus areas and comprise 955 objectives and subobjectives. This review evaluates progress toward meeting the Healthy People 2010 program's challenging agenda in the context of leading health indicator (LHI) measures, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), augmented by additional objectives for a total of 31 measures. Our evaluation of progress includes analysis of changes in objective values, including progress toward Healthy People 2010 targets, where appropriate, and analysis of changes in disparities. The Healthy People 2010 LHI measures suggest that although some progress has been made, there is much work to be done toward the Healthy People 2010 targets and both overarching goals. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health Volume 31 is March 17, 2010. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/catalog/pubdates.aspx for revised estimates. |
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