Types of Data Sources in Plans and Assessments
- YRBSS - The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.
- BRFSS - The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury.
- Healthy People 2020 - Healthy People provides evidence-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
- HP2020 Health Indicators Warehouse
- U.S. Census
- PRAMS - Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, is a surveillance project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments.
- USDA - Food Environment Atlas - - The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors.
- County Health Rankings - The County Health Rankings include data on health behaviors, clinical care , social and economic factors and the physical environment.
- Community Health Status Indicators - The goal of Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) is to provide an overview of key health indicators for local communities and to encourage dialogue about actions that can be taken to improve a community's health.
- National Environment Public Health Tracking - The system was built to provide the public, researchers, local health officials and others w/ electronic data at the community level (and below) to empower local decision making on environmental health,
- Health Data - Federal Government website which compiles many data sets.
