1. Health Data Sets How to find what you need Sastry Nanduri, 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.asphttp://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%20compa rehttp://data.medicare.gov/#type=popular&tag=hospital%20compa re 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?