Updated at 4:10 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, 2007
State rolls out new health Web site
Advertiser Staff
The state Health Department today launched a new Web site that gathers health-related data from various sources for public use.The site, www.healthyhawaii2010.org, is comprised of reports generated from a new data warehouse that contains data from six different sources, many of them previously inaccessible to the general public or available only in limited detail.
The Web site information includes national surveys such as the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system, data collected by the state Health Department, statistics on health disparities across various demographic groups, chronic diseases, alcohol and tobacco use, women's health insurance, lifestyle, prevention and mortality.
"The Web site allows people to obtain information that is more meaningful to and reflective of Hawai'i's population," said Robert Hirokawa, epidemiologist for the state's Healthy Hawai'i Initiative.
