COMHE 750: Community Health Assessment

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COMHE 750 Community Health Assessment

• Library Workshop
• Yat Ping Wong
• ywo_at_hunter.cuny.edu

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Overview

• Intro http//library.hunter.cuny.edu/
• CUNY Searching for books/journals
• Databases (vs. Internet) Searching for
  articlesin health databases
• Resources to find historical, demographical,
  socioeconomical, epidemiological data on
  communities.

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CUNY

• Online catalog
• Book Title
• Journal Title
• Subject Manhattan and history

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Databases

• From Hunter College Libraries homepage, select
  Databases on left
• Journal articles statistics
• Examples Medline, CINAHL, Infoshare, Ethnic News
  Watch, Lexis/Nexis

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Web Guides Statistical Information

• http//library.hunter.cuny.edu/hpl/statistics.htm
  
• Hunter Libraries Health Professions Web
  subject guides Statistical information
• Google searching

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Community District Profiles

• http//www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/lucds/cdstart.htm
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• Google search community district profiles new
  york city

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Community District Profiles

• Population (Ethnicity, sex ratios)
• Vital statistics
• Housing (Rent vs. owned)
• Public assistance
• Services and Programs

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Exercises Find the following For Queens
Community District 3

• Public assistance
• Total 2000 population for Hispanics
• Number of day care centers
• Churches

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Infoshare.org (Database)

• Demographical
• population, housing
• Socio-economical
• Land, public assistance, income, employment
• Health
• Births, deaths

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Exercises Find the following

• Total employment
• Select region (community district)
• Select type of data (socio-economics, businesses)
• Total employees and businesses in Queens CD3

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Other Community Districts Resources

• Community District Needs (Print)

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Community Boards

• http//nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_find.shtml or
  http//nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_links.shtml
• Different types of information May have
• History
• Committes/Members
• Issues of concern
• Minutes of board meetings
• May have their own website

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Exercises

• Choose your community board.
• Find its address, phone number and email.
• What else is available? I.e. calendar, resources,
  etc.

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NYC Dept. of Health Summary of Vital Statistics

• http//www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vs/vs.shtml
• Data for NYC Births, deaths, causes of death

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Exercises find the following

• Leading cause of death for Queens CD3 and NYC

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Additional Resources

• NYC Community Health Profiles- Neighborhoods
  (Print Web)
• NYC Community Health Atlas 2002 (Print Web)
• USA CDC/National Center of Health Statistics (10
  leading causes of death)

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Additional Resources

• Encyclopedia of NYC (Reference Reserve)
• Call number F128.3 E75 1995
• Neighborhood information
• history, events, people, organizations for
  Harlem, Jackson Heights, Chinatown, etc.
• Voter Contact Services --Voting Statistics 
  http//bbs.vcsnet.com/State.php4?NY

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Additional Resources

• NYC Service Atlas http//www.nycnonprofits.org/