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Public Health – Seattle & King County

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Public Health–Seattle & King County [1] protects the health of county residents by tracking infectious diseases, promoting proper food handling, ensuring safe drinking water, improving access to health care, and forming partnerships to encourage healthy behaviors. 

Public Health – Seattle & King County and IHME are working together on the Monitoring Disparities in Chronic Conditions (MDCC) Study [2] to better understand the health disparities in chronic conditions among different populations in King County, WA.
 
The MDCC Study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Begun in 2009, the project includes data gathering through household surveys, physical examinations, and review of select medical records in the hopes of creating a cost-effective integrated surveillance system. The guiding idea is that if the pilot project proves successful in King County, the approach will be expandable to other locales around the US.  
 

Individual collaborators:

  • David Fleming

Related Research Teams & Projects

Monitoring Disparities in Chronic Conditions Study: The MDCC Study [2]
Project

Related Research Teams & Projects

Monitoring Disparities in Chronic Conditions Study: The MDCC Study [2]
Project

Source URL: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/research/collaborator/public-health-seattle-king-county

Links:
[1] http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health.aspx
[2] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/research/project/monitoring-disparities-chronic-conditions-study-mdcc-study