A Study of Locality-based Health Statistics Production

Abstract

□ 기존에 수집된 통계자료의 재분류 및 재가공 □ 환자조사 자료의 지역별 통계생산 시도 □ 지역통계 생산을 위한 지역별 통계 추정을 위한 가중치 추정 □ 지역별 비교 가능 지표의 산출 □ 지역별 의료이용 지표 산출

This study is aimed at exploring ways to better produce local health statistics. The focus of this study is on the health indicators of Community Health Plan. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has been running such data collection projects as Community Health Interview Survey(CHIS) and Regional Medical Utility Statistics (RMUS), both of which have helped increase the national capacity of producing health statistics. To further improve locality-based health statistics, we suggest that CHIS be conducted by skilled and experienced interviewers, such as those stationed in local branches of the National Statistical Office, with a view to raising the quality of data editing and checking. The challenge is to ensure that local health statistics are produced in a way that meets the demand of users. To this end, efforts should be made to make surveys intended for different communities comparable. This will require raising consistency in data sampling and questionnaires. Also, telephone surveys and online data gathering can be considered as efficient and time-saving alternatives to face-to-face household interview, which is not only costly, but also inefficient and time-consuming in many cases. One of the ways to increase the reliability and precision of report statistics is through standardization and data collection guidelines. Statistics geographic information systems and locally-managed websites can serve as useful sources of health statistics for localities.