Data Sources
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Children and Youth
- Healthy Youth Survey, school data and other indicators of child, youth, and families' well-being
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Chronic Disease
- Asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic disease prevalence, hospitalization, mortality
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Crime
- Court caseloads, jail and prison statistics, juvenile justice
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Demographics
- Age, aging, census, divorce, ethnicity, gender, housing, marriage, population, race
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Environmental Health
- Data regarding environmental factors that impact human health
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General Health
- Sources with multiple health/disease indicators, notifiable conditions, causes of death, hospitalization, health disparities
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Health Risks and Wellness
- BRFSS, alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use/abuse, physical activity, nutrition, obesity & overweight
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Health Services
- Access to health care, insurance coverage, Medicare and Medicaid, immunization
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Infancy
- Births, infant death, sources with multiple health indicators
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Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS, STDs, TB, communicable disease, notifiable conditions
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Injury/Violence
- Intentional and non-intentional injuries, deaths and hospitalizations; traffic fatalities including involvement of alcohol, seat belt use and age factors
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Mental Health
- Mental health hospitalization and survey data
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Pregnancy
- Pregnancy, births, abortion, fetal death and other perinatal health risks, WIC
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Socioeconomic Issues
- Cost of living, economic, education, employment, food stamps, income, poverty, school lunch programs, unemployment