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Stefani Gafford, MPH
Research and Clinical Search Services Coordinator
Email: sdgafford@uams.edu
Overview
This guide contains resources with Health Statistics Information at the county, state, national, and international levels.
County
County Health Rankings – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Kids Count Data Center Arkansas Indicators - Anne E. Casey Foundation
State
HRSA Data Warehouse – US Department of Health and Human Services
Morbidity and Mortalitiy Weekly Report (MMWR) – Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System
StateHealthFacts.org – Kaiser Family Foundation
Kids Count Data Center Arkansas Indicators - Anne E. Casey Foundation
QuickFacts Arkansas - United States Census Bureau
Red County Report - Arkansas Department of Health
National
Statistical Abstract of the United States – US Census Bureau [1878-2012] offers comprehensive statistics on social, political, and economic organization of the U.S. Data sources include U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis and other Federal agencies and private organizations. It ceased publication in 2012.
NCHS FastStats A- Z – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC Wonder – Chronic and infectious diseases; environmental health; occupational health; injuries; health practice; health promotion.
HCUPnet – AHRQ’s Health Care Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). Data on hospital stays at the national, state, and local levels.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance -- The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six categories of health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including: behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence, sexual behaviors related to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection, alcohol and other drug use, tobacco use, unhealthy dietary behaviors, inadequate physical activity
YRBSS also measures the prevalence of obesity and asthma and other health-related behaviors plus sexual identity and sex of sexual contacts.
The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) include data on Health Care Professions, Health Facilities, Population Characteristics, Economics, Health Professions Training, Hospital Utilization, Hospital Expenditures, and Environment at the county, state and national levels, from over 50 data sources.
International
Additional Public Health Resources
The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS)
The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) was created to take advantage of:
The opportunity to gain new knowledge about the long-term effects of cancer and therapy, knowledge that can be used to help design treatment protocols and intervention strategies that will increase survival and minimize harmful health effects.
The obligation to educate survivors about the potential impacts of cancer diagnosis and treatment on their health and implementing programs for the prevention and early detection of late effects.
The CCSS provides a dynamic framework and resource in which to investigate current and future questions regarding consequences of therapy, genetic associations, disease processes and causation, interventions, and quality of life among childhood cancer survivors. We invite interested researchers to browse the website.
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. Established in 1984 with 15 states, BRFSS now collects data in all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories. BRFSS completes more than 400,000 adult interviews each year, making it the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world.
Centers for Disease Control HIV Resource Library
CDC offers many resources to help you learn about HIV. CDC fact sheets discuss how HIV affects specific subpopulations and provide information about topics such as risk behaviors and prevention tools. Reports and slides share the latest data and research. Downloadable infographics and awareness day materials can help you better understand HIV’s impact and share that knowledge with others. Letters to colleagues inform partners about new developments in HIV prevention and awareness day activities.