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

Local (Alachua County) Community Assessment & Clinical Data

City Health Dashboard
City-level data includes data about Gainesville
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.
Health Street
A community engagement program at UF that bridges the gaps in health care and health research. It publishes annual community assessment reports.
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS)
IFAS provides research and development for Florida’s agricultural, natural resources and related food industries. This site is a comprehensive, single-source repository of all current UF/IFAS numbered peer-reviewed publications.
UF Integrated Data Repository (IDR)
UF Health Integrated Data Repository (IDR) is a large-scale database that collects and organizes information from across UF Health’s clinical and research enterprises. It 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 Profile Reports
Includes county health: health profile, health status, leading causes of death, leading causes of death, ambulatory care sensitive conditions profile, birth, death, health status comparisons, and more.

Data from and about Florida

Agency for Health Care Administration
The 'State Snapshots' tool provides 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
The Florida Mortality Atlas provides a visual display of the most recent leading causes of death in Florida, including by various demographics.
Florida CHARTS - Population
This set includes 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.
Florida Department of Health
Provides statistics, data surveys and sets. Some data resources require applications and have an associated cost to obtain.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
FDLE provided statistics, data surveys and sets.
Florida Environmental Public Health Tracking
Use the Data Explorer Map tool to track diseases that may be related to environmental exposures in Florida. Additionally, it 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
A 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.

Data about Florida

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.
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
KFF 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

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.
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
Allows researchers access to restricted data. Researchers must submit an application for access.
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.
Graphing Water Information System
GWIS 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
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.

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

Data from and about Florida

Data about Florida

National Private

National (Public)

National Public

International