Data and Statistics

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National Data
State Data
- Maryland State Data
  - County Data

National Data

Healthy People 2010
Baseline and monitoring data for Healthy People 2010 (national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats) are available. Also available is DATA 2010, an interactive database system developed by staff of the Division of Health Promotion Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, and contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010.

Annual reports:

Key annual reports include from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- Health United States (annual report on trends in health statistics)
- America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
- Deaths: Final Data
- Births: Final Data

National Healthcare Disparities Report (a Congressionally-mandated annual report that summarizes health care quality and access among various racial, ethnic, and income groups and other priority populations, such as children and older adults)

Additional national data and statistics can be found at the following sites:

The National Center for Health Statistics, the Nation’s principal health statistics agency.
CDC Faststats, provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance.
Department of Health and Human Services' gateway to data and statistics.
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Numerous reports on maternal and children’s health disparities can be found here: http://www.jointcenter.org/index.php/publications_recent_publications/health
Kaiser Family Foundation
- Reports and live, interactive webcasts regarding health and health care disparities in the United States can be accessed at this website: http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm
MedlinePlus Health Topics
- Listed by disease and demographic groups
- Health Statistics- contains links to other sites with data and statistics and journal articles
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
- Many links to other sites with data and statistics under the categories : Health Information Technology and Standards, Health Statistics, National Public Health Data Sets, State and Local Public Health Data Sets, Public Health Infrastructure Data, and Tools for Data Collection and Planning.
The Commonwealth Fund
- Numerous reports and Powerpoint slides regarding health care disparities can be found at the website.

Sociodemographic data:

U.S. Census Bureau
- National, state and local population counts are available from the decennial Census (every ten years), and more recent population estimates are available from the American Community Survey. Both of these datasets are accessible through the Bureau of the Census. The American Factfinder tab on this website is particularly useful to get your state's demographics.

Health Landscape
- Free mapping tool for public users to access and analyze data on social, economic and healthcare environment in which they operate.

State Data

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Wonder system has interactive tables with pre-tabulated health statistics by age, gender, race/ethnicity and geography
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults. It incluses national, state, and local-based surveys of representative samples of 9th through 12th grade students. The survey is conducted every two years.
Health United States, State Data
Small Area Health Insurance Estimates is a result of a multi-year collaboration between CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control and the Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Branch. Included are estimates of low-income, uninsured populations at both the state and county level. This data may be useful in the evaluation and planning of other programs or initiatives that work with similar – uninsured, low-income – populations.
National Program of Cancer Registries provides data collected by state cancer registries to enable public health professionals to understand and address the cancer burden more effectively.
State Cancer Profiles provides quick profile by state and cancer type, comparison tables, death rates, incidence rates and historical trends.
Social Determinants of Health Maps provides maps on Socioenvironmental, Sociodemographic and Health Care. Maps are available at county level.

Fedstats

Demographic and socioeconomic data

Pew Hispanic Institute

Reports, interactive maps and demographic data for Hispanics/Latinos for all 50 states and 3,141 counties can be found here: http://pewhispanic.org/

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission

America's Health Starts With Healthy Children is a chart book also developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission that examines the health of our children from different socioeconomic backgrounds in every state to document how healthy our nation's children are now and how healthy they could be if we as a nation were realizing our full health potential.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America's Education and Health Calculator is an online tool that compares state health data to education level. Each state can be further examined by county.

Kaiser Family Foundation

Funded by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the State Health Facts website provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the United States on over 500 health, health care and health policy topics.

Maryland Data

Maryland’s racial and ethnic minority population is rapidly growing and will soon exceed the white population. In 2006, Maryland population was estimated to be 41.7 percent minority. If the current trend continues, minorities could be over 50 percent of the population by 2010. Of the 24 Maryland jurisdictions, 8 have 30 percent or more minorities. Find out more. Additional demographic and socioeconomic data can be found at: Maryland Department of Planning.

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Maryland State Data Center

Demographic and socioeconomic data

Maryland Council for New Americans

Reports on immigration can be found here: http://www.newamericans.maryland.gov/documents.html

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tobacco (page down to Maryland State Specific Prevalence Data)

University of Maryland School of Public Health

Journal Articles
- All Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  - Jovel M, Carter-Pokras O, Ho S, Hirshon JM. Racial and ethnic variation in Maryland hospital admissions from home. Journal of the Association of Academic Minority Physicians 2006;17:61-67.
- African Americans
- American Indians
- Asian Americans
- Latinos
  - Martinez IL, Carter-Pokras O, Brown PB. Addressing the Challenges of Latino Health Research: Community-based approaches in an emergent urban community. Journal of the National Medical Association (In Press).
Tobacco Disparities in Maryland

Additional health data can be found at:

The Maryland Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) monitors risk behaviors, chronic diseases, preventive health services, and characterizes demographic health status profiles of Maryland’s population 18 years of age or older.
Maryland Vital Statistics
Maryland State Cancer Disparities
The Maryland Asian American Health Studies website was developed to help reduce health disparities of Asian populations living in Maryland. Here, you will find current/past projects, literature contributions, related job postings, and other helpful resources dealing with Asian health.

Local Data

Brookings
- Numerous reports on immigration to metropolitan areas are available on this site: http://www.brookings.edu/. For example, see this recent report.
Fedstats
- Demographic and socioeconomic data
Pew Hispanic Institute
- Reports, interactive maps and demographic data for Hispanics/Latinos for all 50 states and 3,141 counties can be found here: http://pewhispanic.org/
MedlinePlus Go Local- Maryland Health
- Healthcare services available by area
Partnering Toward a Healthier Future is an initiative by the Adventist Healthcare Center on Health Disparities. After a series of meetings with under serviced communities, representatives from governmental, and representatives from non-governmental agencies, they have prepared a progress report. The report was developed for Frederick, Montgomery, and Prince George's Counties. The full report for 2007 can be found here.
University of Maryland School of Public Health
- Asian Americans
- Journal articles
  - African Americans
    - Baltimore
      - Johnston-Briggs B, Liu J, Carter-Pokras O, Barnet B. Consistent Condom Use among Adolescent Mothers: Effect of Partner Relationships. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2008;100(8):929-935.
      - Ryder PT, Wolpert B, Orwig D, Carter-Pokras O, Black SA. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Older Urban African Americans. Journal of the National Medical Association. 2008;100(10): 1186-1192.
  - American Indians
    - Gryczynski J, Feldman R, Carter-Pokras O, Kanamori M, Chen L, Roth S. Contexts of Tobacco Use and Perspectives on Smoking Cessation Among a Sample of Urban American Indians. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. In Press (May 2010).
  - Asian Americans
    - Lee S, Juon HS, Martinez G, Hsu CE, Robinson ES, Bawa J, Ma GX. Model minority at risk: Expressed needs of mental health by Asian American youth. Journal of Community Health. 34:144-152, 2009.
    - Lee S, Martinez G, Ma GX, Hsu CE, Robinson ES, Bawa J, Juon HS. Barriers and health care access in 13 Asian American Communities. American Journal of Health Behaviors (In Press).
  - Latinos
    - Baltimore
      - Martinez I, Carter-Pokras O. Assessing Health Issues and Barriers in a Heterogeneous Latino Community. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2006;17(4):899-909.
      - Carter-Pokras O, Brown PB; Martinez I, Solano H, Rivera MI, Pierpont Y. Latin-American Trained Nurse Perspective on Latino Health Disparities. J Transcultural Nursing 2008 Apr;19(2):161-6
    - Montgomery County
      - Carter-Pokras O, Mora SE, Zambrana RE, Aaby KA. Emergency preparedness: knowledge and perceptions of Latin American immigrants. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; 2007;18:465-481.
      - Carter-Pokras O, Kelley E, Mora S, Crespo C. Supporting physical activity among Latina adolescents. Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies 2006 Dec;2(2):33-47.
- Tobacco Disparities in Maryland
Baltimore City

Montgomery County
- Montgomery County Government
Prince George’s County
- Prince George’s County Government