WA State Community Nutrition Education Assessment Project

Resources

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BRFSS Homepage includes links to PDF document with actual BRFS Questions as well as access to state by state prevalence data:

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss

Community Assessment

APEXPH and APEXCPH

http://www.naccho.org/

Community Tool Box. The mission of this large web site is, "Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources." This excellent comprehensive site presents information about the community development process from the beginning of a plan for assessment through implementation, advocacy, evaluation, and long term maintenance of projects.

http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/tools.htm

Cultural Issues

Ethomed: Information about cultural beliefs and health practices of recent immigrants to Seattle

http://www.hslib.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed/

Data Sources

1990 Census Lookup (use the button for zip code data, STF3B)

http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup

Census Bureau, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book. http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html
FedStats publicly available statistics from over 70 Federal agencies:

http://www.fedstats.gov

Census Tools and abstracts-

http://www.census.gov

Data sets for national USDA food intake surveys (Continuing survey of food intakes by individuals and Diet and heath Knowledge Survey):

http://sun.ars-grin.gov/ars/Beltsville/barc/bhnrc/foodsurvey/home.htm

Summary of NHANESII data by gender, age, and ethnicity http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/data/ad255.pdf
National Center for Health Statistics Web Site:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/datawh/statab/pubd.htm

Healthy People 2000 & 2010

Healthy People 2000 Homepage:

http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/

Links to data supporting Healthy People 2000:

http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/hp2000/datasrc.htm

Healthy people 2010 proposed objectives

http://web.health.gov/healthypeople

High Risk Groups

American Dietetics Association Policy Statements including Seniors, Children with Special Health Care Needs, Pregnant adolescents, Those with Eating Disorders and others.

http://www.eatright.org/positions.html#9

Seniors

Nutrition Screening Initiative, "Determine Your Nutritional Health" Screening Tool: http://www.aafp.org/nsi/e-determ.html

Children

Data on the status of children, includes some information on hunger:

http://www.childstats.gov

Hunger

Measuring Household Food Security: http://www.econ.ag.gov/whatsnew/issues/foodinsecurity
USDA Community Food Security Initiative: http://www.reeusda.gov/food_security/foodshp.htm
Discussion Paper on Domestic Food Security

http://www.fas.usda.gov:80/icd/summit/discussi.html

Position of The American Dietetic Association: Domestic food and nutrition security, J Am Diet Assoc 1998;98:337

http://www.eatright.org

Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP): Journal article using CCHIP food security questions (questions are included in article):

http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/101/1/e3

Hunger Web: good starting point for information about hunger with a strong international emphasis. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/
Food, Research, and Action Center: basic information about US Hunger and anti-hunger programs http://www.frac.org

National Nutrition Monitoring

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program

http://www.barc.usda.gov/bhnrc/foodsurvey/home.htm

For information about the development of the survey and actual survey instrument go to http://www.barc.usda.gov/bhnrc/foodsurvey/Dor.html

Nutrition: Washington State

The Washington State Dietetics Association:

http://www.nutritionwsda.org

Washington State Extension Electronic Phone Book:

http://cahedb.wsu.edu/psdsu/scripts/webMain.asp

Poverty

Census Bureau site with links to state, county, and school district poverty data, guidelines, and reports http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

Public Policy

Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/

Research and Evaluation

On line research and statistics manual includes information and links for standard statistical information, program evaluation, and qualitative research:

http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/kbhome.htm

Analytical Skills Workbook, a project of the Maternal Child Health Bureau:

http://www.uic.edu/hsc/dscc/dataskills/magazine/issues/current/wrkbkpdfs/frontmatter.pdf

Dietary Assessment Tools: Dietary Assessment Calibration/Validation (DACV) Register: http://www-dacv.ims.nci.nih.gov/index.html
MCH Analytic Skills Online:

Analytic Methods in Maternal and Child Health

http://www.uic.edu/sph/dataskills/

Washington State Resources

Washington State Department of Health

http://www.doh.wa.gov/

VISTA Training Homepage:

http://www.doh.wa.gov/OS/Vista/HOMEPAGE.HTM

Vital Statistics for Washington State:

http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/CHS/default.htm#Birth

YRBS

National Youth Risk Behaviors findings in PDF format http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/pdf/yrbs1997.pdf

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Last revised: 01/04/01

Comments: Donna Johnson (djohn@u.washington.edu)

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