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In partnership
with The University of Texas School of Public Health, St. Luke's
Episcopal Health Charities has created the Community Health Information
System (CHIS). The CHIS is on an online, interactive resource
that allows users to create "landscapes" or "concise
pictures" of the demographic, economic, health and social
data of the 57 Counties of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas from
1990 through 2000. The CHIS stores data on key social and health
issues but also humanizes these issues with community profiles
and case histories.
Early in 2000
the United Way and SLEHC began to discuss the possibility of bringing
the Community Resource Database of the United Way, which contains information
on over 1600 human service agencies, into SLEHC's online Community
Health Information System (CHIS). The ultimate intent of the partnership
is to provide users the opportunity to see a broader picture of
community health status and to identify a selected area's assets
as well as its needs.
ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL
HEALTH CHARITIES and THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC
HEALTH:
- Provide
an easy way to find resources by zip code or by city
- Compile
and integrate demographic information including well-being
indexes for child and community health.
- Provide
the user with a way to see, geographically, where the resources
are clustered
- Ensure
data integrity
UNITED WAY:
- Approves
services included in the database
- Updates
information regularly
- Identifies
and includes new resources
- Ensures
accuracy of data on service organizations
- Provides
links for pertinent information, such as contact person, telephone
numbers, or web links
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