The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) Program: An Infrastructure for Advancing Population Health

• DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.818777
• Publication Date: 2022-03-31T09:15:19Z
• Authors: Kristen M. C. Mal...; Maria Nikodemova; Amy A. Schultz; Tamara J. LeCaire; Andrew J. Bersch; Lisa Cadmus-Bertram; Corinne D. Engelman; Erika Hagen; Laura McCulley; Mari Palta; Allison Rodriguez; Ajay K. Sethi; Matt C. Walsh; F. Javier Nieto; Paul E. Peppard
• Keywords: Population Health

Introduction The Survey of the Health Wisconsin (SHOW) was established in 2008 by University (UW) School Medicine and Public (SMPH) with goals (1) providing a timely accurate picture health state residents; (2) serving as an agile resource infrastructure for ancillary studies. Today, SHOW program continues to serve unique vital population research advancing public health. Methods currently includes 5,846 adult 980 minor participants recruited between 2019 four primary waves. WAVE I (2008–2013) annual statewide representative samples 3,380 adults ages 21 74 years. II (2014–2016) is triannual sample 1,957 (age ≥18 years) 645 children 0–17). III (2017) consists follow-up 725 from baseline surveys 222 selected households. WAVEs include stool collected part study subset 784 individuals. IV 517 113 traditionally under-represented populations biomedical including African Americans Hispanics Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Findings Date provides spatially granular data examine intersectionality multiple social determinants large biorepository extensive geographically diverse urban rural population. Over 60 studies have been published covering broad range topics including, disparities cardio-metabolic disease cancer, objective physical activity, sleep, green-space mental health, transcriptomics, gut microbiome, antibiotic resistance, air pollution, concentrated animal feeding operations heavy metal exposures. Discussion cohort available continued longitudinal monitoring, translational research, environmental aging, microbiome COVID-19 research.