Helppie Institute
DetroitKidsData is receiving ongoing support from the Helppie Institute for Child Health Advocacy at Children's Hospital of Michigan. This support includes annual updates of many of the data measures as well as outreach to the community in use of this website to identify potential areas for advocacy.

Find out more in the Helppie Institute Newsletters
Most Recent News
Newsletter Winter 2007 (Medicaid Insurance)

Older News
Newsletter Spring 2007 (Medically underserved areas)
Newsletter February 2007 (Immunization coverage)
Newsletter Fall 2006 (Introduction & Mission)

Users
The DKD Profile was produced to give members of a community and those that offer service to a community information for improving their community ’s health.  The DKD Profile can be used by many different individuals, groups and organizations to learn something new, make decisions, or solve problems related to their community ’s health.
That means that there will be many different users for the DKD Profile.

Likely users of the DKD Profile include:

  • Community members/consumers of health care: individuals, families, and representatives of neighborhoods and of larger geographic areas
  • Professionals in public health, clinical care, and social services
  • Professionals in fields other than health: clergy, educators, attorneys, business professionals, press/media representatives
  • Community advocates and organizers.

     
 


Email

Questions about the project, data - email

Questions about the website - email


Downloads

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Webinar - Feb 29, 2008
CHM/Helppie/DKD
(Windows video 49M)


Powerpoint presentation
about DetroitKidsData.org

HTML Presentation
about DetroitKidsData.org
(same as the above Powerpoint Presentation)

    
    Uses
The DKD Profile provides users with measures presented as both numbers and rankings. These numbers and rankings can lend themselves to understanding potential problems and associations in a particular community or set of communities.
 
The numbers and rankings presented in the DKD Profile can be used in several ways:
 
1.Determine the level of a factor (e.g. poverty, asthma) that exists in the area:
  • Beneficial social qualities and characteristics
  • Significant diseases, injuries, disabilities and causes of death
2. Discover health strengths, problems or needs that were not previously understood or fully appreciated:
  • Identification of populations at risk for adverse health effects
  • Detection of an unexpected problem or health need
  • Identification of unforeseen determinants of health problems
3. Make comparisons:
  • With other zip code areas and the overall area
  • With the state or nation
  • With an objective standard
4. Establish priorities among health problems and/or interventions

5. Bring community members together around issues of interest; build coalitions
  • Empower users to resolve or improve health of individuals or the community
  • Educate community, others
  • Influence public and private policy

   
 
Geographic Coverage

Making comparisons to other areas (DKD Districts) within a peer group is the cornerstone of how DetroitKidsData.org presents its measure data. This allows DetroitKidsData.org to present rankings of each measure for all the DKD Districts within a peer group. DetroitKidsData.org uses 4 peer groups within the metropolitan Detroit area:

1) Detroit (including Hamtramck and Highland Park,
2) Macomb County,
3) Oakland County, and
4) Wayne County (excluding Detroit).

Altogether DetroitKidsData.org plans on presenting 92 measures for 96 individual DKD Districts in the tri-county Detroit area.

    
  Data Views

DetroitKidsData.org presents data in a variety of formats. There are 2 basic methods of selecting data for viewing:

     1)  Select a geographic area of interest, called DKD Districts, which are a zip code or a grouping of zip codes.

     2)  Select a specific measure of interest such as poverty or low birth weight.
    
 
   
 
This DKD Profile is produced by www.detroitkidsdata.org ©2007
Wayne State University