CommunityConnections: 2006 Winter Edition - Grantee News - The Colorado Trust

Colorado Health Institute Launches New Health Care Database

Colorado Health Institute logo - The Colorado TrustColorado Health Institute logoThe Colorado Health Institute (CHI) recently launched a new data section on its website. A nonprofit organization that serves as the state's leading center for health data resource and analysis, CHI was created in 2002 by The Colorado Trust, Caring for Colorado Foundation and Rose Community Foundation.

This new section on CHI's website provides quick access to national and state databases containing health-related information on Colorado and its counties. The data sources are updated continuously as CHI learns and gathers additional information.

The data section has three parts:

* Online Data Links - Access to online data sources that can be customized for Colorado statewide and county-level data, with information on such topics as health care quality, teen pregnancy, injury-related mortality, Medicare, and children's and women's health.
* Database Inventory - Profiles of other national and state health databases whose data can be accessed by request.
* Geographic Inventory - More than 20 maps of various regions public and private organizations that are used to collect data and target their work.

Additionally, an advanced search feature allows users to search the website by topic, or access data and other information by county, gender, race or ethnic group and/or year.