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
County Health Rankings Data Sources April 8, 2014October 6, 20160 The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (link: rwjf.org) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (link: uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu). County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of
Dartmouth Health Atlas Data Sources March 31, 2014December 13, 20190 For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated
Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse Data Sources March 26, 2014December 13, 20190 Overview The CMS Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (CCW) provides researchers with Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. In the past, researchers analyzing data files were required to perform extensive analysis related to beneficiary matching, deduplication, and merging of the files in