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About NJSHAD
NJSHAD is organized into four main sections:
Health Topics
- Health Topics give background information and links to NJSHAD indicator reports and dataset queries related to each public health topic and are a good place for new users to start.
Community Profiles
- Community Profiles take data points from multiple indicator reports and show them together for a selected community, alongside comparable statewide and U.S. values.
- Communities can be geographic or demographic.
- More information about community profiles is given here.
Indicator Reports
- Indicator reports are data-based reports that indicate the public health status of a population.
- More information about indicator reports is given here.
Dataset Queries
- Dataset queries allow users to create customized data tables, graphs, and maps of publicly available, deidentified, numerical public health datasets through the use of user-defined filtering criteria to control what data are retrieved.
- Anyone can use the query system but the queries are primarily designed for use by public health and health care professionals with an epidemiology or statistics background who need very specific and detailed data.
- More information about dataset queries is given here.
The information provided through the NJSHAD query system is intended to support evidenced-based decision making in New Jersey to plan and improve service delivery, evaluate health care systems, and inform policy decisions. Other uses are not permissible.
History and Acknowledgments
The current NJSHAD system was adopted and adapted by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) in 2007-2008. It is based on the Utah Department of Health's Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH). Significant assistance in database design, database data entry interface, and web reporting was provided by Garth Braithwaite, Paul Leo, Lois Haggard, and Kim Neerings through a contract with Software Technology Group, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah.
NJSHAD is a collaborative effort involving multiple offices and divisions in the New Jersey Department of Health. Funding is provided in part through the NJDOH Consumer, Environmental, and Occupational Health Services' Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NJSHAD's contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not
necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.States or others wishing to adopt the IBIS-PH technology should visit the IBIS-PH Community of Practice for more information.