Starting December 1, 2016, the Hawaii Health Data Warehouse will have a new mailing address. Please update your address book.
Attn: Hawaii Health Data Warehouse
Office of Public Health Studies
University of Hawaii, Manoa
1960 East-West Rd, Biomed D-208
Honolulu, HI 96822
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The Hawaii Health Data Warehouse is proud to announce the launch of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey(YRBS) module on the Hawaii Indicator-Based Information System (Hawaii-IBIS)! This data tool puts the power in your hands to find the data you need. It allows you to explore health measures by multiple dimensions, including geography, race/ethnicity, gender, and grade. Visualize your data with the mapping function or with customized graphs. Or download your data to use for your own program.
Both the High School and Middle School data are available for the years 2005-2015. County-level estimates are available beginning in 2011. With all this YRBS data, come explore the health of our state’s keiki! While you’re there, check out the expanded selection of indicators from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). Keep coming back as we continue to add new health measures to Hawaii-IBIS!
If you’re new to Hawaii-IBIS, watch the simple tutorial on the homepage to learn how to quickly build your own customized query!
The latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) middle school reports are now available! Additionally, a selection of YRBS indicators for both high school and middle school have been loaded into our newest data query tool, the Hawaii Indicator-Based Information System (Hawaii-IBIS).
Here are a few highlights from the 2015 YRBS middle school data…
Bullying continues to be an issue among middle school students in Hawaii. Almost half (45%) report they have been bullied on school property and a quarter (25%) say they have been cyber-bullied. Youth who are bullied are more likely to experience depression, anxiety, substance use, and health complaints.
Over half (51%) of middle school students in Hawaii report they get 8 or more hours of sleep on an average school night. This is important because insufficient sleep can negatively affect academic performance and has been linked to depression and substance use.
One in five middle school students in Hawaii meet the Federal Guidelines for physical activity. In fact, the percent of middle school students who report being physically active for at least an hour every day in the past week has increased 60% since 2005 (16.9%, 2005 YRBS; 27.4%, 2015 YRBS). This is a great development as regular physical activity improves many aspects of health.
The Hawaii Health Data Warehouse routinely publishes reports from six data sources, including Vital Statistics, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System (PRAMS), Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS), Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), and the Hawaii Health Survey (HHS). Before the reports are posted, the data providers are required to validate the reports. Validating the reports involves getting approval for the differences in numbers and formatting preferences between the data providers and HHDW reports. Differences in numbers could result from the dates of data retrieval or reporting dates, statistical tools used, and rounding or comparison methodologies.
The design and presentation of the reports are the results of several meetings between the HHDW team and respective data providers and users. Input from a DOH User Group which includes analysts, statisticians, and epidemiologists were collected in terms of which health indicators should be made available, whether to use tables versus charts and the inclusion of counts, confidence intervals and percentages. It is important that users refer to the documentation included in each report in order to accurately understand the basis of the data. The Resources section of this web site houses additional information.
Should you have any questions about the reports, email profiles@hhdw.org or call HHDW at (855) 946-5899.
The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) exists to protect and improve the health and environment for all people in Hawaii. The Hawaii Health Data Warehouse was created by DOH under the Healthy Hawaii Initiative, which is funded by the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Funds. The Healthy Hawaii Initiative is the liaison between DOH programs and the Hawaii Health Data Warehouse.
The reports in this section are organized by category of subject areas like chronic diseases, healthy lifestyles, substance abuse, and tobacco use. Each category is further sub-categorized by health conditions or risk behaviors.
The reports are from the following data sources:
