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Show Action 2000 Action 2000 is a standardized data system that is used to define and monitor health status at the state and local levels. Population and mortality are the first two "steps" in the data system. The population data base was developed by the Office of Planning and Budget, and adapted by the Office of Surveillance and Analysis to be useful to state and local health department staff. The mortality data system uses the mortality data collected by the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics and the population numbers to calculate crude, age-adjusted and age-specific mortality rates in an interactive, user-friendly manner. Table 1 is an example of the type of data available from Action 2000. This example is suicide mortality rates by age and sex in Utah for 1990. The Action 2000 data system is beneficial in the assessment of health problems, the statistical analysis of pertinent data and the analysis of the data's relevance to public health policy in improving health status. Suicide Mortality Rates by Age and Sex, Utah, 1990* Table 1 Age- Suicide Population Rate Suicide Population Rate Group Deaths Women Deaths Men Women Men <15 2 263,161 0.8 4 277,399 1.4 15-44 33 395,725 8.3 139 397,021 35.0 45-64 4 125,633 3.2 49 120,132 40.8 65 + 2 85,706 2.3 32 64,319 49.8 Source: Utah Department of Health, Division of Community Health Services, Office of Surveillance and Analysis. (1993, May 24). Action 2000: Assessment capacity through an interactive on-line network for the year 2000. Instruction manual, Version 1.0. Numbers may differ slightly from other published reports because of rounding. **Per 100,000 Persons Health Data Committee The Health Data Authority Act, enacted in 1990, created the Health Data Committee with a mandate to "direct a statewide effort to collect, analyze, and distribute health care data to facilitate interaction among those with concern for health care issues." Since then the Health Data Committee has been working to provide leadership in health information management and analysis in order to promote informed decision making by policy makers, purchasers, and consumers. In December, 1991 the Committee adopted by rule a comprehensive statewide Health Data Plan that defined the priorities of the Committee, the first of which is the development of the Hospital Discharge Data Base (HDDB). The HDDB now contains data for all inpatient discharges in 1992 from 52 Utah hospitals and will soon be ready for preliminary analysis. The Health Data Committee will play a major role as a source of health care information. The hospital discharge data base will provide pre-reform data capable of measuring patterns of utilization across all providers and payers. 142 NOTES |