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Integrated Guidelines for Developing Epidemiologic Profiles: HIV Prevention and Ryan White CARE Act Community Planning
The Integrated Guidelines for Developing Epidemiologic Profiles: HIV Prevention and Ryan White CARE Act Community Planning have been developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources Services Administration to assist the persons who compile and interpret HIV prevention and care data for state, territorial, or local HIV/AIDS epidemiologic profiles. The purpose of the document is to provide one set of guidelines to help profile writers produce integrated epidemiologic profiles and advise them concerning how to interpret epidemiologic data in ways that are consistent and useful in meeting prevention and care planning needs. An example of an integrated epidemiologic profile from Louisiana is also included in this document.

Contents

Contributors

Abbreviations

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 Introduction

  1. Overview
  2. The Need for Integrated Guidelines
  3. Core Concepts
Chapter 2 Starting the Process
  1. Determining the Scope
  2. Determining the Content and Organization of the Profile
  3. Determining the Development Process
  4. Obtaining Profile Data
  5. Identifying Skills for Preparing Profiles
  6. Understanding Basic Analytic Concepts
Chapter 3 Describing the Epidemic
  1. Core Epidemiologic Questions
  2. Special Questions and Considerations for Ryan White CARE Act Grantees
Chapter 4 Completing the Epidemiologic Profile
  1. Making Your Profile User-Friendly
  2. Writing the Remaining Sections
  3. Preparing Oral Presentations of Your Profile
  4. Disseminating Your Profile
Chapter 5 Special Considerations
  1. Confidentiality
  2. Special-Needs Populations
  3. Comorbidity
  4. Areas with Low Morbidity and Minimal Data
Appendixes
  1. Data Sources
  2. Data Sources by Jurisdiction
  3. Web Data for Core EpidemiologicQuestion 1
  4. Table Formats for Mortality Data
  5. Table with Descriptions of Ryan White CARE Act Programs
  6. Planning Group Epidemiologic Profile Feedback Form

Glossary

References and Suggested Reading


Integrated Guidelines for Developing Epidemiologic Profiles: HIV Prevention and Ryan White CARE Act Community Planning, (Entire PDF) (1.31 MB).

Sample:
Integrated Epidemiologic Profile for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Planning--Louisiana, 2002

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Executive Summary

Introduction

Section 1: Core Epidemiologic Questions

Section 2: Ryan White CARE Act Questions Appendixes
  1. Data Sources
  2. Map of Louisiana

Glossary

Abbreviations


Integrated Epidemiologic Profile for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Planning--Louisiana, 2002, (Entire PDF) (787 KB)

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Last Revised: March 5, 2003
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