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 Injury Data Prevalence Data Other Data

Risk Factor Data Behavioral Risk Factors SMART/SelMMSAPrevData.asphttp://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/BRFSS- SMART/SelMMSAPrevData.asp Environmental Risk Factors Disease Agents

Resources Data Hospital Care rehttp://data.medicare.gov/#type=popular&tag=hospital%20compa re Directory of health care services and facilities

Demographic Data Census Data

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