Kinesiology & Health Sciences

A table from the CDC that summarizes the most frequently-used surveillance systems to track diseases, health and death. It gives information about the data collection methods and links to the individual surveillance programs.

Data collected for the data collected for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report is broken into 250 quality measures that are grouped and used to compare health care quality to benchmarks for patients of different races, incomes, and health care needs.

Online tool to access data from U.S Census and related economic and community surveys. In addition to demographic and income information, it includes some health-related topics such as insurance coverage and disability.

From CDC, world’s largest, ongoing telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the U.S. yearly since 1984. Factors assessed include tobacco use, health care coverage, HIV/AIDS, physical activity, consumption. It includes built-in graphing tools to look at summary statistics by state or over time.

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care uses Medicare data to provide overviews of Medicare spending by region, by hospital, and by procedure, including tools for maps and comparisons.

SimplyAnalytics combines census data with other data sets, such as consumer spending research. It can be used to create maps, charts, and reports, including by zip code or census block group. Must set up a free account to use.

Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) is a web application that allows the manipulation of various CDC health-related data sets.

State-by-state ranking of various correlations, conditions, consequences and care. Allows easy manipulation of data and download of visualizations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin collaboration that ranks counties based on a core health indicators, including, obesity, smoking, unemployment, and access to healthy foods. Allows comparison of counties within and between states.

Access to vital statistics and demographics for Metro Richmond by county or region of city.

Health data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all territories based on more than 800 health indicators.

Primarily maps of health indicators for Virginia, by city / county or by health district, depending on the data source. For some topics, additional tables and analysis tools are available.