Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health (Drs Anderson, Eisenberg, and Halfon), Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, Department of Pediatrics, Geffen School of Medicine (Drs Russ and Halfon); and Department of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs (Dr Halfon), UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023;29(4):529-538. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001746.
In recent years, stakeholders in public health have emphasized measuring young peoples' well-being as a more holistic and upstream approach to understanding their health and development. However, summarizing the available indicators of well-being in ways that strengthen ongoing policy and community efforts remains a challenge.
Our objective was to develop a measurement framework of young peoples' well-being that would be engaging and actionable to a broad and diverse set of stakeholders in California.
We began with a scan of the relevant literature documenting previous efforts to measure young peoples' well-being, both within the United States and internationally. Subsequently, we individually interviewed a set of key informants and then convened a multidisciplinary panel of experts to solicit feedback on our approach. Throughout this iterative and collaborative process, we developed and refined a measurement framework based on the information provided across these various sources.
Findings suggest data dashboards are a promising approach for presenting a parsimonious yet holistic picture of young peoples' well-being. Dashboards can highlight well-being's multidimensionality by categorizing indicators over different domains. Our framework organizes indicators over 5 types: child-centric, subjective well-being, contextual determinants, developmental, and equity-focused. The design and flexibility of dashboards can also highlight important gaps in data collection that are of interest to end users such as indicators not yet collected among the broader population. Furthermore, dashboards can include interactive features, such as selecting key data elements, that can help communities articulate priority areas for policy action, thereby generating momentum and enthusiasm for future iterations and improvements.
Data dashboards are well suited for engaging a variety of stakeholders on complex multidimensional concepts such as young peoples' well-being. However, to fulfill their promise, they should be codesigned and codeveloped through an iterative process with the stakeholders and community members they intend to serve.
近年来，公共卫生利益相关者强调，衡量年轻人的幸福感是一种更全面、更具前瞻性的方法，可以帮助他们了解自己的健康和发展状况。然而，以加强现有政策和社区工作的方式来总结现有的幸福感指标仍然是一项挑战。
我们的目标是开发一个衡量年轻人幸福感的测量框架，使其能够吸引和适用于加利福尼亚州的广泛和多样化的利益相关者。
我们首先对相关文献进行了扫描，记录了在美国和国际上衡量年轻人幸福感的先前努力。随后，我们对一组关键信息提供者进行了单独访谈，然后召集了一个多学科专家小组，就我们的方法征求反馈意见。在这个迭代和协作的过程中，我们根据这些不同来源提供的信息，开发和完善了一个测量框架。
研究结果表明，数据仪表盘是一种很有前途的方法，可以简洁而全面地展示年轻人的幸福感。仪表盘可以通过对不同领域的指标进行分类，突出幸福感的多维性。我们的框架将指标组织成 5 种类型：以儿童为中心、主观幸福感、背景决定因素、发展和公平关注。仪表盘的设计和灵活性还可以突出数据收集方面的重要空白，这些空白对最终用户（如尚未在更广泛的人群中收集的指标）很重要。此外，仪表盘还可以包括互动功能，例如选择关键数据元素，这可以帮助社区阐明政策行动的优先领域，从而为未来的迭代和改进产生动力和热情。
数据仪表盘非常适合让各种利益相关者参与到像年轻人幸福感这样复杂的多维概念中。然而，为了实现其承诺，它们应该通过与他们意图服务的利益相关者和社区成员的迭代过程进行共同设计和共同开发。
