How Does Health Indicators Work?
Health Indicators offers an easy-to-use process for understanding the key health risks among the older adults living in your community.
Before beginning, it is important to plan. You will want to decide why you want this information, the client population you want to survey, how many surveys will be administered, and who will do the work. To help you with this, see Getting Started.
Staff members administer the 72-item survey to clients. With experience, it takes staff approximately 15-20 minutes to administer the survey to clients.
After the survey is administered, it is reviewed for mistakes. The Manager reviews the completed surveys for mistakes and omissions that could affect data entry. If the survey is not correctly completed, the Manager works with staff to complete the survey.
The next step is to enter the survey data into the on-line database. It takes approximately five minutes to enter the data from a survey into the Web-based database developed specifically for Health Indicators. Some programs use their casework staff to enter the data directly, some use administrative staff, some use students and/or volunteers, while in other cases health or community partners assume responsibility for data entry.
Once data collection and entry are done, health risks/needs in your community can be identified using automated reports. The database provides access to two kinds of reports: frequency reports and client data profiles.
- The Frequency reports provide question-by-question results of the survey, showing how many people answered each question, in both numbers and percentages.
- The Respondent reports provide a more descriptive picture of individual clients that are living with chronic conditions.
Together, these reports will help you identify areas of individual need, as well as provide you with a picture of your entire client population and the issues that are most prevalent in your community.
The final step is to make meaning of your data and share the results with the larger community. Sharing results with community stakeholders can lead to selecting a banner community health issue that the community wants to improve.
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