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Cincinnati & Hamilton County

Hamilton County Public Health Reports
Public health reports concerning disease, injury, births and deaths in Hamilton County.
Community Health Assessment (City of Cincinnati Health Department)
City Health Dashboard: Cincinnati
In partnership with the National Resource Network, the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU created the City Health Dashboard to provide access to rigorous health data for Cincinnati and other cities. The Dashboard continues to grow, and is a one-stop resource for viewing and comparing data from multiple sources on health and the factors that shape health to guide local solutions. Users can search for data on other cities from the cityhealthdashboard.com homepage.
CincyInsights
An open data portal that has interactive dashboards for neighborhoods, health & environment, community perceptions survey, and more.
Communities Served (Hamilton County Public Health)
Map and list of communities served by Hamilton County Public Health.

Neighborhoods

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute) Measures vital health factors in U.S. counties; provides shapshots of health status and roadmaps for improvement
Community Commons (Institute for People, Place, and Possibility, IP3) Provides resources, tools, and statistics for improving communities
Neighborhood Atlas (School of Medicine & Public Health, University of Wisconsin) Measures of neighborhood disadvantage linked to negative healthcare outcomes

State of Ohio

Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Provides data and reports, including data on the abuse of opioids
"Explore Data & Statistics" from the Ohio Department of Health
Includes interactive applications like the Ohio Public Health Data Warehouse and the DataOhio Portal as well as visualization for the Ohio Infant Mortality Scorecard, Community Wellbeing: Social Determinants of Health, and Infectious Diseases in Ohio among others.
CDC Chronic Disease Indicators
Congressional District Health Dashboard
Ohio Vital Statistics
Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces, Pregnancy, Abortions, Fetal Deaths

United States: National & State

Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Databases, data infographics, state snapshots, etc., from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (National Center for Health Statistics) Links to health surveys, data on major health issues, health statistics by state, etc. Provides access to all NCHS surveys and collection data services, such as the National Health Interview Survey.
City Health Dashboard In partnership with the National Resource Network, the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU created the City Health Dashboard to provide access to rigorous health data for various American cities. The Dashboard continues to grow, and is a one-stop resource for viewing and comparing data from multiple sources on health and the factors that shape health to guide local solutions.
Directory of Health & Human Services Data Resources U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
HealthData.gov Data on a wide range of topics, including environmental health, medical devices, Medicare & Medicaid, social services, community health, mental health, and substance abuse
National Center for Health Statistics from the CDC – Healthy People Released by the Department of Health & Human Services every decade since 1980. Includes infographics, such as the social determinants of health, and evidence-based resources to address publi health priorities.
MedlinePlus: Health Statistics U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Website for patients and their families
National Information Center on Health Services Research & Health Care Technology (NICHSR) (U.S. NLM) The results of health services research, with emphasis on evidence reports and technology assessments which provide organizations with information on common, costly medical conditions and new health care technologies
National Institutes of Health Library (NIH): Finding and Using Health Statistics From the National Institutes of Health Library, this guide presents tips for locating and using various health statistics resources.
State Health Facts (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) Information on national health issues
The Commonwealth Fund’s State Health Data Center
America's Health Rankings Overall & for each state by the United Health Foundation
CDC’s FastStats
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Offers publicly available data about insurance plans and relationships that drug and medical device companies have with healthcare providers among other data sets.
CDC WONDER
WONDER is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tool useful for the aggregation and analysis of public health data.

World

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) Measures and maps the world's most important health problems, evaluates the strategies used to address them, provides data for researchers and policymakers
UNICEF Data (United Nations Children’s Fund) Statistics about child & maternal health by topic and by country
World Health Organization (United Nations) For information on a particular health topic begin at the Health Topics list; for a specific country look at the list of Countries or Regions.

Data Visualization

Data Discovery Access, explore, and build with datasets and API from the National Library of Medicine.

Sage Data Foundations SAGE Stats is a data download and visualization tool hosting social science data about U.S. states, counties, cities, and metropolitan statistical areas from more than 150 different government and non-government sources. It spans topics like employment, crime, religion, and education. The data series are standardized allowing you to easily find, compare, visualize, and export. Includes access to "Local Stats," "State Stats," "Business Stats," & "US Political Stats" databases.

Health Statistics Tutorial

Statistics in a Nutshell by Sarah Boslaugh Need to learn statistics for your job? Want help passing a statistics course? Statistics in a Nutshell is a clear and concise introduction and reference for anyone new to the subject. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this edition helps you gain a solid understanding of statistics without the numbing complexity of many college texts. Each chapter presents easy-to-follow descriptions, along with graphics, formulas, solved examples, and hands-on exercises. If you want to perform common statistical analyses and learn a wide range of techniques without getting in over your head, this is your book. Learn basic concepts of measurement and probability theory, data management, and research design Discover basic statistical procedures, including correlation, the t-test, the chi-square and Fisher's exact tests, and techniques for analyzing nonparametric data Learn advanced techniques based on the general linear model, including ANOVA, ANCOVA, multiple linear regression, and logistic regression Use and interpret statistics for business and quality improvement, medical and public health, and education and psychology Communicate with statistics and critique statistical information presented by others
ISBN: 9781449316822
Publication Date: 2012-11-25

Finding & Using Health Statistics (U.S. National Library of Medicine) A course that describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found

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