Guides @ UF: Precision Public Health: Data Providers by Jurisdiction

Local (Alachua County) Community Assessment & Clinical Data

Health Street
A community engagement program at University of Florida that bridges the gaps in health care and health research. Provides annual community assessment reports.
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Provides research and development for Florida’s agricultural, natural resources and related food industries. The EDIS website is your Every Day Information Source. It is a comprehensive, single-source repository of all current UF/IFAS numbered peer-reviewed publication
Florida Dept of Health (FDOH) Community Health Assessment Plans
This link provides access to health assessments, health improvement plans and corresponding progress reports by county
UF Integrated Data Repository (IDR)
UF Health Integrated Data Repository (IDR), supported by the UF CTSI, is a large-scale database that collects and organizes information from across UF Health’s clinical and research enterprises. The UF Health IDR enables new research discoveries as well as improvements in the quality and safety of patient care.

County Level Data

Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA provides U.S. county-level data from more than 50 sources.
Assocaition of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Community Health Needs Assessment case studies, requirements, resources from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps ( RJW)
The County Health Rankings provide a snapshot of a community’s health
FLHealth CHARTS County & State Profile Reports
Includes count health and health profile and health status, leading causes of death, county-state profile, leading causes of death, ambulatory care sensitive conditions profile, country birth, death and health status comparisons. Also fatal inujries, non-fatal injury hospitalization and emergency dept visits and opioid use dashboard. Health profiles of American Indian, Black and Hispanic populations and health equity profile as well as profiles of the elderly, birth defects, chronic disease, oral health, pregnancy and school-aged cihlld and adolescent profile. To move between counties or years, adjust the pulldowns at upper left above the default table.

Florida

Agency for Health Care Administration
The State Snapshots tool provide state-specific health care quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement
Bureau of Economic and Business Research Institute
Statistical data on Florida includes: consumer sentiment, population estimates, economy, social networks products and services.
Florida Cancer Data System
County-level data from Florida Cancer Registry and Department of Health. Information to request data is available at this link. There is a cost associated with these datasets.
Florida Charts- Mortality Atlas
he Florida Mortality Atlas provides a visual display of the most recent leading causes of death in Florida. Age groups are divided into roughly ten year increments to display the difference in the top five leading causes of death. Causes of death are presented for the total population as well as whites, blacks, and Hispanics. Additionally, a breakdown of each cause of death also shows the difference in age and sex
Florida CHARTS - Population Estimates
Population estimates from the Florida Legislature, Office of Economic and Demographic Research have been allocated by race based on information from the US Bureau of the Census. The population data for 2011-2021, along with rates affected by the population data, was updated on FLHealthCHARTS in November 2017.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Provides statistics, data surveys and sets.
Florida Department oif Health
Provides statistics, data surveys and sets. Some data resources require applications and have an associated cost to obtain.
Florida Environmental Public Health Tracking
Use the Data Explorer Map tool to track diseases that may be related to environmental exposures in Florida. Provides data sets on environmental hazards and health outcomes.
Florida Geographic Data Library
Use the Metadata Explorer, to search, browse, and download data from the Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL), a mechanism for distributing spatial (GIS) data throughout the state of Florida. The FGDL is warehoused and maintained at the University of Florida's GeoPlan Center.
One Florida Clinical Research Consortium
Collaboration representing researchers, clinicians and patients that aims to improve health across the state through community-based clinical research projects. Dataset requests have an associated cost. To establish feasibility of cohort research use UF IDR first.

State

Florida Housing Data Clearinghouse
City, county/multi-county or state level data on tenure (own/rent), type (condo, apt, home) housing cost burden, household count (# occupants), presence of person with disability. Downloadable raw #s and %ages.
Guttmacher Data Center
Data on reproductive health issues at state-only level. Data often several years old.
KidsCount Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation's demographic , economic, educational and health data on kids, birth thru adolescence. Can limit by state, county, city, 109-112 Congress Congressional District or Congressional District At Large.
State Health Facts
Kaiser Family Foundation's collection of state-level data on various types of insurance, vulnerable populations, health status, health reform, health costs & budgets, demographics and the economy.
Florida Health Finder Query Tool
Inpatient, Outpatient and Emergency Department Results. Statistical charts by year. user selects parameters (county, facility, patient age/race/ethnicity/gender, diagnosis group, principal payer, patient status [discharged/transferred, etc.])

National Private

Kaiser Family Foundation
Provides in-depth information on key health policy issues including Medicaid, Medicare, health reform, global health. High-level data, tools and apps are available.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A collection of programs, perspectives, and research on how to collect, share, and learn from health data and use it to improve personal and population health.

National (Public)

Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE)
National Center for Education Statistics. Demographic, geographic, economic data. and data tools
Data Resources for Behavioral and Social Research on Aging
This National Institute on Aging page links to various data collections on populations over the age of 50: Health and Retirement Study (HRS), Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a variety of studies of aging populations around the world.

National Public

CDC: Behavorial Risk Factor Survelliance System (BRFSS)
Find city and county data collected through the Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) project, the Web Enabled Analysis Tool (WEAT), interactive maps, and other resources provided through BRFSS.
CDC: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Combines interviews and physical examination to assess the the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.
CDC: National Health Interview Survey
Principal source of information on the health of the civilian population in the United States. To link to datasets by year select "Data Release" under the requested year.
CDC: National Vital Statistics System
Provides birth, death, marriage and divorce statistics.Four to six special reports are issued per year topic examples: Drug Overdose Deaths, by Fetanyl, Dementia Mortality, Most Common Drugs in Overdose Deaths.
CDC: The National Center for Health Statistics
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Allows researchers access to restricted data.
Survelliance, Epidemilogy, and End Results Program (SEER)
(SEER) National-, state- and some county-level data on cancer from National Institutes of Health. Apply for access to variables not included in public access files.
American Housing Survey (AHS)
Comprehensive United States survey on housing, Topics unique to the AHS include characteristics and physical condition of the nation’s housing units, indicators of housing and neighborhood quality, and home improvement activities.

GWIS

Graphing Water Information System),creates time-series plots of information measured at U.S. Geological Survey hydrologic data collection sites across the United States.

Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
A scalable informatics framework that will enable clinical researchers to use existing clinical data for discovery research and, when combined with IRB-approved genomic data, facilitate the design of targeted therapies for individual patients with diseases having genetic origins
Florida Drinking Water Database
Five reports at this link contain data for drinking water systems and are further divided by year or geographic area to make deploying the spreadsheets quicker.

International

OECD Data
OECD (Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development) data on health care use; health equipment, resources and risk; and health status.

Precision Public Health: Data Providers by Jurisdiction

Selection Criteria

Local (Alachua County) Community Assessment & Clinical Data

County Level Data

Florida

State

National Private

National (Public)

National Public

International