Week 7 discussion

Overview

Community Health

Here at USF, we had a long-running project on community health assessment and data warehousing. The project was focused on a methodology originally developed in the College of Public Health called "comprehensive assessment for tracking community health" (CATCH). In a collaboration between the College of Public Health and the College of Business, we began a multi-year project to support community health assessment through the creation of a Florida-based data warehouse. The CATCH data warehouse was used to generate more than two dozen large-scale community health assessment throughout Florida over about a decade, along with other related research efforts. The CATCH methodology served as a model for later community health assessment activities at the national level.

For your first post, summarize the reading and add your thoughts. Feel free to include external sources, experiences from your work, etc. into the discussion.

Readings The main reading for this special topic is a general article discussing the CATCH data warehouse: Berndt_DSS2003CATCH.pdfDownload Berndt_DSS2003CATCH.pdf. Further Readings (Optional) This additional reading includes the original article describing the CATCH methodology at the start of the project: Studnicki_BPBH1997CATCH.pdfDownload Studnicki_BPBH1997CATCH.pdf. The other reading looks at data quality issues that surfaced during the data warehousing project from an information technology perspective: Berndt_Computer2001Quality.pdfDownload Berndt_Computer2001Quality.pdf.

One primary post (minimum 300 words)