NHSPI_measure_metadata: 2

Data provided by Big Local News. Data from the National Health Security Preparedness Index. The overall index is useful for examining a state’s readiness in dealing with any number of issues. There also are specific metrics that directly relate to states’ abilities to respond to the Coronavirus pandemic. With that in mind, we have pulled out and processed key metrics -- from preparedness for surge testing to evaluating how many people in each state have access to paid time off. Our goal is to make it easier for journalists to access and analyze for their reporting. For more information, please start with the NHSPI_READ_ME file. Questions? Contact biglocalnews@stanford.edu.

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rowid	obsid	index	item_code	domain_code	domain_name	domain_description	subdomain_code	subdomain_name	subdomain_description	subdomain_long_desc	measure_name	measure_description	measure_rationale	data_source	verbose_data_source	data_dates	limitations
2	4.0	Index	1.1.2	1.0	HSS	Health Security Surveillance	1.0	PHSEI	Health Surveillance & Epidemiological Investigation	The creation, maintenance, support, and strengthening of passive and active surveillance to: identify, discover, locate, and monitor threats, disease agents, incidents, and outbreaks provide relevant information to stakeholders monitoring/investigating adverse events related to medical countermeasures. The sub-domain includes the ability to successfully expand these systems and processes in response to incidents of health significance.	M18	Number of epidemiologists per 100,000 population in the state, by quintile (1=Lowest Quintile, 5=Highest Quintile)	The measure indicates the state-wide personnel capacity of epidemiologists. An accessible epidemiology workforce is critical to assuring an organization can maintain on-going surveillance operations to detect emerging disease and to surge, or ramp up, during and after any significant event involving exposure to a hazard.	BLS OES & ASTHO	Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) and ASTHO Profile of State and Territorial Public Health--2012 and 2016 Epidemiologists by Jurisdiction	2012—2017	The measure may overestimate the number of epidemiologists who are available to prepare for and respond to emergencies, because it counts all personnel regardless of the occupational settings in which they practice and the job responsibilities they perform. BLS and other national data sources on health provider supply have been shown to undercount certain types of professionals, and may differ considerably from the estimates available from state licensing boards. Since the measurement undercounting in the BLS data are expected to be relatively consistent across states, this is unlikely to cause significant bias in the Index state and national results. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces occupational estimates by surveying a sample of non-farm establishments. As such, estimates produced through the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program are subject to sampling error.