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Health Data Sets

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

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Health Data Sets

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  1. Health Data Sets How to find what you need SastryNanduri, HealthTap

  2. Many Sources of Health Data • Government agencies at various levels • Research centers, organizations, societies • Universities • Private sectors

  3. Many Formats of Data • XLS • RDF • Proprietary • PDF (!) • Interactive maps • SQL • And many others…

  4. Uniform Data Catalog Valuable

  5. Most Data Not Catalogued • Available Data Sets: 1000s • Data Sets Catalogued: less than 100

  6. Going beyond catalogued data

  7. Types of Health Data • Four major types of health data • Health outcome data • Risk factor data • Resource data • Demographic data

  8. Health Outcome Data • Presence or Absence of • Disease • Injury • Physical disability • Death

  9. 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)

  10. Resource Data • Describe resources available to treat diseases or alleviate risk factors • Health care facilities • Health care professionals • Smoking cessation classes

  11. 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)

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Resources Data • Hospital Care • http://data.medicare.gov/#type=popular&tag=hospital%20compare • Directory of health care services and facilities • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html

  15. Demographic Data • Census Data • http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

  16. Questions?

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