Communicating Data Resources
Iowa Public Health Tracking Portal
Type of data: a variety of population-based and representative sample datasets
Who: Iowa residents by county
What: County environmental health reports that summarize a set of measures for comparison across time and geography
CDC Wonder
Type of data: population-based
Who: US population
What: incidence and mortality data
National Equity Atlas
Type of data: population-based
Who: US population
What: racial equity data
American Community Survey
Type of data: population-based
Who: US population
What: community-level social and economic data
City Health Dashboard
Type of data: model-based population=level estimates
Who: US population including over 750 cities with populations
What: small area estimates on 35+ health drivers of metrics
PLACES: Local Data for Better Health
Type of data: Model-based population-level estimates
Who: US population including all counties, places, census tracts, and Zip Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs)
What: small area estimates on 27 chronic disease measures for all US counties, places, census tracts, and ZCTAs
BRFSS
Type of data: representative sample
Who: randomly selected sample of adults aged 18+ (non- institutionalized), all 50 states, DC and US Territories, phone interviews
What: chronic and communicable disease risk factor prevalence
County Health Rankings
Type of data: representative sample
Who: US population by counties
What: rankings for health outcomes and health factors among counties
YRBSS
Type of data: representative sample
Who: random sample of public middle and high school students every other year (random sample of classes within selected school districts)
What: prevalence of health risk behaviors (eating habits, tobacco use, etc.)
Data Instructional Modules
Feedback from the Iowa Public Health Data Needs Assessment indicated that data users wanted quick refreshers of data concepts. The Institute of Public Health Research and Policy with the Iowa Department of Public Health have developed instructional videos to provide a quick data terminology resource. Check out the videos below!