Community Health Data Base
Since 1983, Public Health Management Corporation's (PHMC’s) Community Health Data Base (CHDB) has served the information needs of health and human service agencies in the Southeastern Pennsylvania region by providing up-to-date and reliable community-level health and social service data. The CHDB implements one of the longest running regional Household Health Surveys in the country. The CHDB’s mission is to drive data-led community impact for the well-being of the community.
The CHDB addresses the increasingly important role of data in health care policy and decision making. It is designed to help health services providers, policy makers and communities target and measure the impact of their programs/initiatives. In fact, for the past twenty-five years, the CHDB has conducted hundreds of Community Health Needs Assessments across the region and throughout Pennsylvania to identify unmet needs. The CHDB provides not only the local level data needed for program planning, but through the assessment of community indicators of health and well-being, also provides the community level data needed to develop Community Health Improvement Plans. The CHDB data helps agencies to evaluate their economic and social return on investment at each stage of program development and implementation.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey (HHS)
The HHS is a survey that gathers information about health status, health behaviors, and access to care among households in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. The survey includes additional questions about the health of children and older adults (60+). The HHS is a random-digit dial telephone survey (landline and cell phone), administered in both English and Spanish. The survey is conducted every 2 to 3 years and over 120,000 households in the five county Southeastern Pennsylvania region have participated since it began in 1991. The HHS is unique compared to other health data because it includes local, self-reported health data.