COMHE 700: Principles of Community Health Education

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COMHE 700 Principles of Community Health
Education

• Library Workshop

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Overview

• Intro http//library.hunter.cuny.edu/
• CUNY Searching for books/journals
• Databases (vs. Internet) Searching for
  articlesin health databases
• Resources to find historical, demographical,
  socioeconomical, epidemiological data on
  communities.

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CUNY

• Online catalog
• Book Title
• Journal Title
• Subject Manhattan history

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Databases

• Journal articles, statistics
• Examples Medline, CINAHL, Infoshare

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Web Guides Statistical Information

• http//library.hunter.cuny.edu/hpl/statistics.htm
  
• Hunter Libraries Health Professions Web
  subject guides Statistical information
• Google searching

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Community District Profiles

• http//www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/lucds/cdstart.htm
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• Google search community district profiles new
  york city

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Community District Profiles

• Population (Ethnicity, sex ratios)
• Vital statistics
• Housing (Rent vs. owned)
• Public assistance
• Services and Programs

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Exercises Find the following For Queens
Community District 3

• Total 2000 population for Hispanics
• Total females 65 years and older
• Number of day care centers
• Churches

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Infoshare.org (Database)

• Demographical
• population, housing
• Socio-economical
• Land, public assistance, income, employment
• Health
• Births, deaths

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Exercises Find the following

• Total 2000 population for females 65 years and
  over
• Select region (city, community district)
• Select type of data (demographical, 2000 census,
  population

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Exercises Find the following

• Total Medicaid recipients in Queens community
  district 3
• Total number of renters for USA

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Other Community Districts Resources

• Community District Needs (Print)
• NYC Community Health Profiles (Print Web)
• Community Health Profile of NYC (Print)
• NYC Community Health Atlas 2002 (Print Web)

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Community Boards

• http//nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_find.shtml or
  http//nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb_links.shtml
• Different types of information May have
• History
• Committes/Members
• Issues of concern
• Minutes of board meetings
• May have their own website

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Exercises

• Choose your community board.
• Find its address, phone number and email.
• What else is available? I.e. calendar, resources,
  etc.

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NYC Dept. of Health Summary of Vital Statistics

• http//www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/vs/vs.html
• Data for NYC Births, deaths, causes of death
• Print version call no. HA730.N5 A21 Reserve

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Exercises find the following

• Leading cause of death for Queens CD3 and NYC

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Additional Resources

• 10 Leading Causes of Death (USA)
  http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
• Encyclopedia of NYC (Reference Reserve)
• Call number F128.3 E75 1995
• Neighborhood information
• history, events, people, organizations for
  Harlem, Jackson Heights, Chinatown, etc.

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Additional Resources

• NYC Service Atlas http//www.cmap.nypirg.org/nycn
  onprofits/
• Databases Ethnic News Watch, Lexis/Nexis (NY
  Times, newspapers)