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                <summary>Indicator Reports Page</summary>
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                <author>Maria Baron</author>
                <company>NJDOH</company>
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        <TITLE>About Health Indicator Reports</TITLE>

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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">What Are Health Indicators?</h10>
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                                                Health indicators are summary measures that are designed to describe particular aspects 
                                                of a population's health or health system performance. 
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Why Have Health Indicators?</h10>
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                                                The <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-396" target="_blank">U.S. Government Accountability Office</a> (GAO) found that comprehensive key indicator systems 
                                                had the following positive effects:
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                                                                <li>Enhanced collaboration to address public issues.</li>
                                                                <li>Provided tools to encourage progress.</li>
                                                                <li>Informed decision making and improved research.</li>
                                                                <li>Increased public knowledge about key issues.</li>
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">What Are Indicator Reports?</h10>
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                                                NJSHAD Indicator Reports are brief online reports that contain data, graphs, and contextual
                                                information for a specific public health issue, such as why it's important, 
                                                what the current status is, and what is being done to improve it. Each Indicator 
                                                Report has a graph (or several graphs) to give a picture of the data. Text is 
                                                also provided to answer the most commonly asked questions about the specific 
                                                topic addressed.  <a href="/home/ContentUsage.html#ind">More info...</a>
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                                                After looking at the Indicator Report for a specific measure, if more detailed
                                                data are needed, the <a href="query/Introduction.html" class="Bold">Custom Query 
                                                System</a> is available, or the program office may be contacted directly using the 
                                                information available in the footer at the bottom of the Indicator Report page.
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Exporting/Copying Indicator Report Tables</h10>
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                                                Instructions for bringing NJSHAD data tables into <b>Excel</b> or <b>Word</b> are given <a href="/home/Export.html">here</a>.
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Downloading Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                NJSHAD indicator report pages are automatically formatted to save in <b>PDF</b> format. 
                                                The information on the page is saved without the top navigation or left navigation buttons.
                                                Use your browser's Print menu and choose "Save as PDF" or choose "Adobe PDF" as the printer name.
                                                Older browser versions may not have this capability, so update your browser if necessary.
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">How to Cite Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                Use and reproduction of the information published on this website is encouraged 
                                                and may be done without permission. Please refer to the <a href="/home/WebCitation.html" class="Bold">
                                                NJSHAD Citation page</a> for suggested citation styles. 
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Accessing Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                There are three ways to find Indicator Reports in NJSHAD.<br/><br/>
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                                                                        <td style="width:20%"><a href="indicator/index/Alphabetical.html"> <img src="../view/image/home/AtoZ.png" alt="A-Z icon" title="Go to alphabetical index"/></a> </td>
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                                                                        <td style="vertical-align:middle"><a href="indicator/index/Alphabetical.html" class="Bold">Alphabetical/Chronological Index</a> - All indicator reports listed in alphabetical order with the ability to sort by publication date</td>
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                                                                        <td style="width:20%"><a href="indicator/Categorized.html"> <img src="../view/image/home/hierarchy.png" alt="Category icon" title="Go to categorized index"/></a> </td>
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                                                                        <td style="vertical-align:middle"><a href="indicator/Categorized.html" class="Bold">Cross-Cutting Index</a> - Indicators categorized by health initiative, data source, or DOH program. </td>
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                                                                        <td style="width:20%"><a href="topic/Index.html"> <img src="../view/image/indicatortopics.png" alt="topic icon" title="Go to Health Topics"/></a> </td>
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                                                                        <td style="vertical-align:middle"><a href="topic/Index.html" class="Bold">Health Topics</a> - Indicator reports are listed in corresponding Health Topic pages</td>
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Using Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                <h2>Chart Progress</h2>
                                                        <ul>
                                                                <li>Track and evaluate progress toward goals</li>
                                                                <li>Compare trends across time to demonstrate improvement or decline in health status</li>
                                                                <li>Get information to use for program development</li>
                                                                <!--<li>Take pride in accomplishment and quality of public health programs</li>-->
                                                                <!--li>Reaffirm that we are on the right track</li-->
                                                                <li>Enhance our ability to do public health assessment</li>
                                                                <!--li>Demonstrate accountability to taxpayers and funders</li-->
                                                                <!--<li>Foster an environment of accountability</li>-->
                                                                <!--li>Be accountable and cost-effective</li-->
                                                                <!--li>Demonstrate cost-effectiveness</li-->
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                                                <h2>Decision-Making and Focus</h2>
                                                        <ul>
                                                                <li>Provide information that will be useful for decision-making</li>
                                                                <li>Guide policy decisions, priorities, and strategic plans</li>
                                                                <li>Compare measures across population subgroups to identify target groups for interventions</li>
                                                                <li>Allocate resources effectively</li>
                                                        </ul>
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                                                <h2>Understand Data and Provide Education</h2>
                                                        <ul>
                                                                <li>Educate the public on what public health is</li>
                                                                <li>Provide public health context to better understand the meaning of public health data</li>
                                                                <li>Ensure adequate understanding of public health data commonly used in decision-making</li>
                                                                <li>Provide focus to data analysis and support functions</li>
                                                                <li>Streamline data collection and reporting capacity</li>
                                                                <li>Focus measurement and reporting on measures that are high-priority</li>
                                                                <li>Standardize and promote familiarity with definitions of priority measures</li>
                                                                <li>Maintain data and information in a central location for easy access for 
                                                                        use in producing reports, grant applications, and presentations</li>
                                                                <li>Provide an integrated view of public health services to our customers</li>
                                                        <!--<li>Provide an integrated view of our customer to all public health practitioners</li> commented out by MLB 4/27/09 b/c I can't figure out what it means!!!  -->
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">How to Cite Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                Use and reproduction of the information published on this website is encouraged 
                                                and may be done without permission. Please refer to the <a href="/home/WebCitation.html" class="Bold">
                                                NJSHAD Citation page</a> for suggested citation styles. 
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Printing Indicator Reports</h10>
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                                                NJSHAD indicator report pages are automatically formatted for printing. 
                                                The information on the page is displayed without the top navigation or left navigation buttons, and 
                                                with margins set for 8 1/2" x 11" paper. NJSHAD graph colors were selected to maximize 
                                                the ability to distinguish shades of gray when printed in black and white. -->
                                                <!--If confidence interval data are available for the graph, you may view them on the graph 
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Indicator Report Basics</h10>
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                                                <ul>
                                                <li>Each report is on a specific health topic.</li>
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                                                <li>These reports show the status of a public health issue through the use of trend and bar graphs, 
                                                data tables, and explanatory text.</li>
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                                                <li>All NJSHAD Indicator Reports follow the same format and consist of</li>
                                                <ul>
                                                        <li>a <b>Default View</b> covering the main point of the health topic and</li>
                                                        <li>a link to a <b>Full Report View</b> (on the left navigation menu) 
                                                        that provides much more information such as</li>
                                                        <ul>
                                                                <li>how New Jersey compares to the U.S., </li>
                                                                <li>health disparity issues, </li>
                                                                <li>and services available to the public.</li>
                                                        </ul>
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                                                <li>The <b>Default View</b> consists primarily of a graph and a data table.    
                                                Data Notes, Source(s), Other Views (if any), Definitions, Targets, Current Outlook, and Resources are listed below the data table.</li>
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                                                <h10 class="panel-title">Indicator Report Navigation</h10>
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                                                Below are descriptions of each of the pages available from the left navigation buttons.
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                                                        <h2>Important Facts</h2>
                                                                The Important Facts page shows, at a minimum, the following sections: 
                                                                <ul>
                                                                        <li>Definition</li>
                                                                        <li>Numerator</li>
                                                                        <li>Denominator</li>
                                                                        <li>Why Is This Important?</li>
                                                                </ul><br/>
                                        
                                                                Other available sections include: 
                                                                <ul>
                                                                        <li>Data Interpretation Issues</li>
                                                                        <li>Healthy People Objectives</li>
                                                                        <li>Healthy New Jersey Objectives</li>
                                                                        <li>How Are We Doing?</li>
                                                                        <li>How Does New Jersey Compare With the U.S.?</li>
                                                                        <li>What Is Being Done?</li>
                                                                        <li>Other Program Information</li>
                                                                </ul><br/>
                                                        

                                                        <h2>Data Views</h2>
                                                                The Data Views button has a drop-down list of all the views available for this indicator. 
                                                                The views are also listed on the main page under "Other Views."
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                                                        <h2>Related Indicators</h2>
                                                                The Related Indicators button has a drop-down list of up to four Related Indicator pages:
                                                                <ul>
                                                                        <li>Relevant Population Characteristics</li>
                                                                        <li>Health Care System Factors</li>
                                                                        <li>Risk Factors</li>
                                                                        <li>Health Status Outcomes</li>
                                                                </ul>
                                                                These pages allow users to see how the current indicator might be 
                                                                related to other indicators.<br/><br/>
                                                        

                                                        <h2>Available Services</h2>
                                                                If there are services available to the public in regard to this 
                                                                indicator they are listed on the Available Services page.<br/><br/>
                                                        

                                                        <h2>Other Resources &amp; Links</h2>
                                                                The Other Resources &amp; Links page lists other places where more 
                                                                information may be found for this indicator.<br/><br/>
                                                        

                                                        <h2>Full Report</h2>
                                                                The Full Report lists all the information available for this 
                                                                indicator on one page. It includes everything from the above pages 
                                                                as well as all graphical views and their data tables.
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