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March 26, 2008
Institute for Community Health Launches Quick Confidential Phone
Survey to Improve the Health of Residents in Local Communities
Community Residents are Urged to Please Respond to the Phone Survey
No Names or Addresses will be Collected from Survey Participants
Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Somerville, MA… From
January through May of 2008, the Institute for Community Health
(ICH), in collaboration with Cambridge Health Alliance, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge Public Health
Department, and Somerville Health Department, will be conducting
the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) in the communities
of Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, and Somerville.
The BRFSS is a confidential telephone survey of residents age 19
and over. Participation is essential to ensure the creation and
administration of health programs which will directly benefit residents
of these communities. The survey will take about 20 minutes to complete.
No names or addresses will be collected from survey participants.
The surveys will be conducted in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The sponsoring organizations have collaborated to design the survey
and strongly encourage residents to answer the phone and complete
it. The information collected will help to assess and improve the
health status of residents in the local communities, identify local
health issues, and design and monitor health promotion and disease
prevention programs. Topics covered in the survey include cholesterol
and hypertension awareness, receipt of cancer screenings, tobacco
and alcohol use, exercise and physical activity, prevalence of asthma
and diabetes, and access to health care. For further information,
please contact: Alison Harris, (617) 499-8323.
The Institute for Community Health (ICH) is a non-profit research
and evaluation organization funded as a collaborative project of
three major hospital organizations: Cambridge Health Alliance, the
Mount Auburn Hospital of CareGroup, and the Massachusetts General
Hospital of Partners HealthCare. ICH was founded in 2000 to be a
nationally recognized organization dedicated to health status improvement
through facilitation and collaborative sponsorship of community-based
research, evaluation, dissemination, and educational activities.
Please visit: http://www.icommunityhealth.org.
Cambridge Health Alliance is a regional healthcare
system with three hospitals and more than twenty primary care practices
in Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston’s metro-North communities.
As a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health
Alliance offers medical residency/training programs and undergraduate
learning experiences in hospital and community settings. Cambridge
Health Alliance also includes the Cambridge Public Health Department,
CHA Physicians Organization (CHAPO), and Network Health, a managed
Medicaid plan. For more information: http://www.challiance.org
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Michelle Keenan
Mount Auburn Hospital
Phone: 617-441-0700
Leandro Porto
Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: 617-887-4237
Kitty Bowman
Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: 617-485-6132
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