State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System: Features, Data & Tools

MacNeil, Allison

Friday, August 17, 2012: 8:00 AM

2503B (Kansas City Convention Center)

Allison MacNeil, MPH , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA

Michael Tynan, BA , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA

Brandon Kenemer, BS , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sarah Greer, MS HCI , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sherry Brady, BSN , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Gabbi Promoff, MA , Office on Smoking and Health , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, GA

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

Describe the use of the STATE system to access key tobacco control program evaluation data.

Cross Cutting Program Area(s): Tobacco Control Movement – Skills Building and Evaluation and Surveillance

Audience:

Tobacco prevention and control professionals working in national, state or local programs who need to obtain current, accurate and timely data will benefit from this presentation.

Key Points:

The data necessary to evaluate state tobacco control programs, such as tobacco use prevalence, tobacco-related legislation, and policies are available from many sources. It is, however, often difficult to obtain and compare these data. To disseminate state level data, OSH created the STATE System. The STATE System presents over 330 state-level data measures.

STATE System is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. This interactive, web-based data resource integrates tobacco control data from multiple, disparate sources into comprehensive summary reports to facilitate evaluation and policy support and to aid in consistent data interpretation across states

Educational Experience:

Public health professionals can use the System’s broad range of data and advanced reporting features to report on detailed single state data, trends over time, compare data for multiple states, export data to a spreadsheet for further analysis, and produce attractive graphs to export for use in presentations.

Benefits:

The System collects multiple types of data from multiple disparate sources, many of which are not readily available elsewhere, and presents them in a unified space, ideal for evaluations. Attendees will learn how to leverage this tool for their work in tobacco prevention and control.