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Navigating Health Data Sets: Find What You Need Easily

Discover various sources and formats of health data, from government agencies to private sectors. Learn about the four major types of health data and where to access valuable resources.

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Navigating Health Data Sets: Find What You Need Easily

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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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