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Data Dissemination

The Alaska Native EpiCenter compiles and distributes various health reports that provide detailed statewide and regional level data to tribal health organizations and other entities working to improve the health of Alaska Native people.

Additionally, Alaska Native EpiCenter staff write manuscipts on various public health topics which are published in national journals in order to focus attention on the health status of Alaska Native people.

Yagheli Ch'tsizlan (We Are Getting Healthier)
Publications
- Earth Study
- - Alaska EARTH Study Data Summary 2008
  - Alaska EARTH Study Databook 2008
  - - As a courtesy, please notify YKHC contact: julia_street@ykhc.org) if using data from this report for major presentations, data analysis, manuscripts or other published reports.
- Regional Health Profiles
Data
- Alaska User Populations by Community 2009 (courtesy Alaska Area IHS)
- Healthy People Indicators (AK Native vs. AK vs. US White)
- Alcohol-Related Injury Hospitalizations
- Population Pyramids 1990-2006. (PowerPoint Slides)
- Population Pyramid 1980-2030. (Image File)
- - Pyramids created by the Alaska Dept of Labor & Workforce Development
Data Sources
- Tribal
- - Alaska Area Indian Health Service, Division of Planning, Evaluation and Health Statistics (Tribal facility user populations)
  - Alaska Area Diabetes Program (Diabetes)
  - ANTHC Immunization Program (Immunization rates)
  - ANTHC Division of Environmental Health and Engineering Environmental Health (Water and sewer service)
  - Alaska Native Tumor Registry (Cancer)
  - ANTHC Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) (GPRA Measures, e.g. Smoking Cessation, Cancer Screenings)
  - Indian Health Service GPRA (GPRA Measures, e.g. Smoking Cessation, Cancer Screenings)
- State of Alaska
- - Alaska Maternal and Child Health Data Books (Comprehensive reference books on the status of women's, infants' and children's health in Alaska. The current issue features trends, regional distributions, information on risk factors and population-specific information on leading indicators of maternal and child health, synthesizing information from multiple state data collection systems.)
  - Department of Labor (Unemployment rates, population estimates)
  - Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics (Birth and death statistics, e.g. death rates, pre-natal care rates, teen birth rates)
  - Alaska Trauma Registry (Injury hospitalizations)
  - Alaska Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (Adult health behaviors, e.g. smoking, physical activity)
  - Alaska Youth Risk Behavior Survey (Youth health behaviors, e.g. smoking, physical activity, substance abuse)
  - Epidemiology (Sexually Transmitted Infections)
  - Healthy Alaskans 2010 (State health objectives)
- National
- - U.S. Census: American Factfinder (Population Estimates, Educational Attainment, Housing)
  - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (Adult health behaviors)
  - Youth Risk Behavior Survey (Youth health behaviors)
  - National Cancer Institute, Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) (Cancer statistics)
  - U.S. Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program (Income and Poverty Estimates in-between census years)
  - CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Web-based Injury Statistics and Querying Reporting System (WISQARS) (Injury death and hospitalization statistics)
  - Healthy People 2010 (National health objectives)

The EpiCenter plays a critical role for us...our board wants fact-based decision making...the EpiCenter is critical in terms of giving us factual information about health status and trends around which to make decisions for our investments...the EpiCenter is going to be the tool by which we measure trends.

~Paul Sherry,
Former ANTHC CEO

Alaska Native Epidemiology Center ~ 4000 Ambassador Drive, C-DCHS ~ Anchorage, Alaska 99508 ~ Phone: 907.729.4567 ~ Email:

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