Highlighted in this section of the Health Data Sources Directory are important and exceptionally useful health reports and databases. Each is listed beneath the organization or governmental agency that houses that report/database. Those organizations and agencies are listed throughout this directory.

• National
• Indiana
• Kentucky
• Ohio
• Local Reports

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project Quality Indicators (HCUP)
• Healthcare Informatics Standards
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
• Safety Net Monitoring Initiative

• Kids Count

• Bureau of Primary Care Supported Health Centers
• Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs)
• Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs)
• Models that Work
• Pharmacy Database for Reduced Cost Medications
• State Profiles
• Uniform Data System (UDS)

• Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
• Birth Defects Surveillance
• Cancer Registries Program
• CDC & ATSDR Electronic Information Resources for Health Officials
• CDC Wonder- Database
• Data from Death Investigations
• Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database (HAZDAT)
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• National Immunization Program
• Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS)
• Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System (PNSS)
• Sexually Transmitted Disease Database
• Tuberculosis Surveillance in the US
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) System
• WISQARS (Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
• National Center for Health Statistics
  • Fastats A to Z
  • Healthy People 2000
  • Healthy People 2010
  • National Health Interview Study (NHIS)
  • National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  • National Healthcare Survey

• 2002 Data Compendium
• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA)
• HIPAA materials
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) Profiles
• State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) information

Child Trends Data Bank

Grants.gov

• Electronic announcements of all federal grant-making agencies

• Community Health Status Indicators
• HIPAA overviews and updates
• HRSA Mapping Tool
• Primary Care Service Areas
• State Health Workforce Profiles

• Covering the Uninsured: How Much Would It Cost?
• Health Insurance Coverage in America: 2002 Data Update
• The Uninsured: A Primer--Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance

• The Medical Algorithms Project--more than 5,100 algorithms available as spreadsheets

• Child & Adolescent Action Center
• NAMI Policy Research Institute
• The PACT Model/ACT Technical Assistance Center
• Policy News & Action Alerts
• TRIAD (Treatment/Recovery Information and Advocacy Database)

• State Health Statistics links

• Health Care Data Standards Reporting Guide
• NAHDO Guide to State-Level Ambulatory Data Collection Activities
• NAHDO State Health Data Resource Manual: Hospital Discharge Data Systems

• Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Study (DATOS)
• Healthfinder -- health resource maintained by DHHS
• MEDLINE plus -- health database maintained by the National Library of Medicine
• National Longitudinal Alcohol Epidemiologic Survey (NLAES)
• NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program (ECA) and the National Comorbidity Study
  (NCS)
• Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Reports (SEER)

• PRIDE Survey (school-administered substance abuse data)

• Alcohol & Drug Services Study (ADSS)
• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
• Drug & Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS)
• Drug Services Research Survey (DSRS)
• National Household Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH)
• Services Research Outcomes Study (SROS)
• State Alcohol & Drug Abuse Profile (SADAP)
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Statistics Sourcebook
• Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)
• Uniform Facility Data Set

• Bureau of Justice Statistics NEISS Intentional Injury Study
• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
• Uniform Crime Reports

Indiana Criminal Justice Institute

• Crime in Indiana Report
• Drug & Crime Control data
• Substance Abuse data
• Youth data

• Healthy Families Indiana
• Hoosier Healthwise Information

• Hospital Consumer Guide
• Immunization
• Indiana Health Behavior Risk Factors
• Indiana Mortality Report
• Indiana Natality Report
• Infectious Diseases
• Maternal & Child Health

Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky

• Kentucky Medicaid Overview

• DPH Data Warehouse
• Kentucky County Health Profiles
• Kentucky Youth Tobacco Survey
• Kentucky Vital Statistics Rates

• Northern Kentucky Community Health Plan
• Search data and demographics

Health Policy Institute of Ohio

Ohio Department of Health

• Cancer Incidence
• Childhood Lead Poisoning
• Immunization
• Infectious Diseases
• Information Warehouse
• Insurance & Health Care
• Ohio Family Health Survey
• Women's Health

Child Policy Research Center

Greater Cincinnati Health Council

• Compensation Survey
• Employee Benefits Survey
• Hospital Comparison Study (HCS)
• Hospital Utilization Study (HUS)
• Long-Term Care Compensation Survey
• Occupational Safety Benchmarking Survey
• Outpatient Surgery Study
• Timely Hospital Utilization Study (THUS)
• Uncompensated Care Study
• Vacancy/Turnover Study

• Communicable Disease Report
• Hamilton County Injury Surveillance Report
• Mortality Report

• Access to Care for the Uninsured and Underserved
• Behavioral Health Disorders Among Male Low-Level Offenders
• Behavioral Health on the Ballot
• Catalyst for Change: Stories of Change and Transition
• The Effects of Depression on Society: Proceedings from the Depression Roundtable
• Greater Cincinnati Community Health Status Survey
• Health Data Archive/OASIS
• Health Data Resource Directory
• Health Links: Your Guide to Health Care Resources in Greater Cincinnati
• Kentucky Medicaid Overview
• Meeting the Challenge of an Aging Population in Greater Cincinnati
• Mental Illness and Substance Abuse in the Criminal Justice System
• The Need for Behavioral Health Services for School-Age Children: A Survey of Students in Southwestern Ohio
• Ohio Medicaid Basics
• Prevention from the Harm of Health Illiteracy in Ohio
• Prevention of Family Violence
• Prevention of Lead Exposure in Ohio
• Preventive Oral Health Care
• Proceedings from Healing the Whole Person: Loss and Health Roundtable
• Substance Abuse Treatment Needs of Adolescents in Southwest Ohio
• When Welfare to Work Doesn't Work: Interlocking Problems of Low-Income Women

• Community Health Status Survey
• Hospital Comparison Study
• Indicators of Healthy Communities

• The Online Analysis and Statistical Information System (OASIS) (http://www.oasis.uc.edu)
• Factors Predictive of Self-Reported Health Status: An Analysis of the 1999 Community Health Status Survey Final Report
• Health Care Access and Utilization Issues among the Uninsured in the Greater Cincinnati Area
• Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care
• Self-Reported Depression and Depressive Symptomatology: An Analysis of the 1999 Community Health Status Survey
• Self-Reported Health Status of African-American Adults in the Greater Cincinnati Area
• Self-Reported Health Status of White Appalachian Adults in the Greater Cincinnati Area