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ArticleThe Permanente journal2016

The Kaiser Permanente Northern California Adult Member Health Survey.

Nancy Gordon, Teresa Lin

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Article in The Permanente journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers.

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150citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

150 citing papers in PubMed, 253 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nancy GordonResearch Scientist II at the Division of Research in Oakland, CA. nancy.gordon@kp.org.
Teresa LinData Consultant at the Division of Research in Oakland, CA. teresa.y.lin@kp.org.
California Digital Library · USSocial Policy Research Associates (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Member Health Survey (MHS) is used to describe sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of the adult membership of this large, integrated health care delivery system to monitor trends over time, identify health disparities, and conduct research.

objectiveTo provide an overview of the KPNC MHS and share findings that illustrate how survey statistics and data have been and can be used for research and programmatic purposes.

methodsThe MHS is a large-scale, institutional review board-approved survey of English-speaking KPNC adult members. The confidential survey has been conducted by mail triennially starting in 1993 with independent age-sex and geographically stratified random samples, with an option for online completion starting in 2005. The full survey sample and survey data are linkable at the individual level to Health Plan and geocoded data. Respondents are assigned weighting factors for their survey year and additional weighting factors for analysis of pooled survey data.

resultsStatistics from the 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2011 surveys show trends in sociodemographic and health-related characteristics and access to the Internet and e-mail for the adult membership aged 25 to 79 years and for 6 age-sex subgroups. Pooled data from the 2008 and 2011 surveys show many significant differences in these characteristics across the 5 largest race/ethnic groups in KPNC (non-Hispanic whites, blacks, Latinos, Filipinos, and Chinese).

conclusionThe KPNC MHS has yielded unique insights and provides an opportunity for researchers and public health organizations outside of KPNC to leverage our survey-generated statistics and collaborate on epidemiologic and health services research studies.

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Delivery of Health Care, IntegratedEthnicityHealth StatusRacial GroupsAdultAgedAged, 80 and overCaliforniaElectronic MailFemaleHealth SurveysHumansInternetMaleMiddle AgedSocioeconomic Factors

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PMID27548806
PMCPMC5101088
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