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Health Data Sets
How to find what you need
Sastry Nanduri, HealthTap
Many Sources of Health Data
• Government agencies at various levels
• Research centers, organizations, societies
• Universities
• Private sectors
Many Formats of Data
• XLS
• RDF
• Proprietary
• PDF (!)
• Interactive maps
• SQL
• And many others…
Uniform Data Catalog Valuable
Most Data Not Catalogued
• Available Data Sets: 1000s
• Data Sets Catalogued: less than 100
Going beyond catalogued data
Types of Health Data
• Four major types of health data• Health outcome data• Risk factor data• Resource data• Demographic data
Health Outcome Data
• Presence or Absence of• Disease• Injury• Physical disability• Death
Risk Factor Data
• Factors that explain Health Outcome• Disease agents (high blood pressure)• Personal characteristics (age, gender, race)• Behavioral factors (exercise, diet, alcohol use)• Environmental factors (air pollution, contaminated ground water)
Resource Data
• Describe resources available to treat diseases or alleviate risk factors• Health care facilities• Health care professionals• Smoking cessation classes
Demographic Data
• Understand population of interest• Population (age, race, sex, personal income marital status,
educational attainment)• Households (household size, structure, family type and
household income)
Health Outcome Data
• Mortality Data• http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html
• Injury Data• http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html
• Prevalence Data• http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cdi/AdvancedSearch.aspx
• Other Data• http://wonder.cdc.gov/WelcomeT.html
Risk Factor Data
• Behavioral Risk Factors• http
://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/BRFSS-SMART/SelMMSAPrevData.asp
• Environmental Risk Factors• http://h4h.healthtap.com/pages/45840• http://h4h.healthtap.com/pages/46056• http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/cde/2006.htm
• Disease Agents• http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cdi/AdvancedSearch.aspx
Resources Data
• Hospital Care• http://data.medicare.gov/#type=popular&tag=hospital%20compa
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• Directory of health care services and facilities• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html
Demographic Data
• Census Data• http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
Questions?