Health System Data Center Data Sources April 22, 2014December 13, 20190 The Commonwealth Fund's (commonwealthfund.org) Health Systems Data Center provides for comparisons of state and regional data on access to healthcare, prevention and treatment, avoidable hospital use, and health lives. The site ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their performance for 38 different indicators. It also ranks 306
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data Sources April 15, 2014August 22, 20180 The Center for Disease Control's (CDC's) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about US residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventative services. BRFSS collects data in all 50 states as well as
US Census American FactFinder Data Sources April 9, 2014May 28, 20140 American FactFinder is a tool from the US Census Bureau (link: census.gov) that provides access to data from several censuses and surveys. Data is available for the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas and covers a wide range of topics from income to education to health insurance