Competency: Chronic Disease

Watch Video Speakers: Yinan Peng, PhD, MPH, Service Fellow with The Community Guide Branch and Amy DeGroff, PhD, MPH, Evaluation Team Lead with the Program Services Branch in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Objectives: Identify the three strategies used within multicomponent interventions to increase colorectal …

Using The Community Guide to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening – 5/6/2019 Read More »

Watch Video Speakers: Louise Murphy, PhD; Olga Khavjou, MA Objectives:This webinar provide an overview of the CDC’s Chronic Disease Cost Calculator Version 2 and include a demonstration of the tool.  Following the webinar, the audience should have a better understanding of how to Use the Cost Calculator Customize the cost estimates from the Cost Calculator …

An Overview of the CDC Chronic Disease Cost Calculator – 2/25/2014 Read More »

Watch Video Speakers: Dr. Mukhtar, Dr. Ralls Objectives:This webinar provides information on identifying community contacts with an interest in your data, selecting and using the appropriate types of data, and translating data for community use. Dr. Mukhtar slides Dr. Ralls slides

Watch Video Speakers: MaryCatherine Jones, MPH; Brenda Ralls, PhD Objectives:The webinar will provide an overview of the CDC 6-Step Evaluation Framework and describe its practical application in state health departments. Webinar Slides

Watch Video Speakers: James B. Holt, MPA, PhD; Xingyou Zhang, PhD Objectives:This webinar focuses on the use of geospatial data methods for the creation of small area estimates of population health outcomes. Webinar Slides

Watch Video Speakers: Samuel F. Posner, PhD Objectives:This webinar will present helpful hints and common problems in manuscript preparation, submission, review and publication processes. Webinar Slides

Watch Video Speakers: John Shriver, MS; Joshua Tootoo, MS Objectives:This webinar will introduce the geospatial data analysis tools available in ArcGIS 10.1, with a focus on building spatial models for health outcomes. We will start with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), learn to diagnose problems due to spatial autocorrelation, and cover a number of methods for …

Contextualizing Health Outcomes A How-to for Spatial Data Analysis – 11/21/2013 Read More »