Michigan vital statistics, community health information, public safety and environmental health portal.

Key public health information, including statistics and funding amounts, for the state of Michigan. From healthyamericans.gov.

Provided by MCDH, allows users to generate reports at the county level on mortality, births, and disease incidence.

Maintained by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, patients and providers can compare quality and cost information for hospitals across Michigan.

from Michigan Department of Community Health.

"The purpose of Michigan Data is to increase public awareness and access to data and information created by and available from state of Michigan agencies. The data is in machine readable form to allow users of the site to do their own analysis with the data, including mashups."

The technical notes section of this report contains instructions on who to contact to request epidemiologal and other data, as well as freely available datasets.

"Here you can browse, search, preview, and download a variety of Michigan geospatial datasets. Browse by category or enter key words in the search box to locate a dataset of interest. You can then read its description to learn more and explore attributes before downloading. A variety of formats exist when downloading such as ESRI shapefile, spreadsheet, KML, or API."

Statics about environmental topics like air quality, drinking water, and ticks, health conditions related to environmental pollution like lead poisoning and asthma, and population characteristics.

Data visualization toolkit that allows health practitioners to identify communities with high poverty rates and low educational attainment, among other indicators, to target interventions.

List of some of the major datasets, statistical resources, data repositories and surveys that contain state-level, national and international health stats and information.

CSM.gov makes available reports and statistics about Medicare and Medicaid utilization rates, as well as trends within Medicare and Medicaid data.

"...reference list of nationally funded data systems that have a relationship to environmental public health. This list is not meant to be a comprehensive inventory. Rather, it highlights the major data systems with a national scope where public health and environmental data can be directly downloaded from the Internet."

Data sources compiled by AHRQ. "Data are provided on topics such as the use of health care, the costs of care, health care systems, trends in hospital care, health insurance coverage, out-of-pocket spending, and patient satisfaction."

National indicators of childhood educational and health well-being.

"Quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages."

"Provides access to maternal and infant health data for the United States and by state or region, including more than 60,000 graphs, maps, and tables."

"...HHS has begun "liberating" health data through HealthData.gov -- making more and more data from HHS' vaults (from CMS, CDC, FDA and NIH, to name a few sources) easily available and accessible to the public and to innovators across the country. This information includes clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product data, community health performance information, government spending data and much more."

Data.census.gov is an online source for current and historical population, housing, economic and geographic data available through the U.S. Census Bureau website.

Data from Health People initiative. "Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions.
Measure the impact of prevention activities."

"The SEER research data include SEER incidence and population data associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas (including SEER registry and county). SEER research data are released every Spring based on the previous November’s submission of data."

Joint project between MIT and Deloitte that provides an easy-to-use interface to navigate public data.

"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 information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians."

"The HCUP family of administrative longitudinal databases contains encounter-level information on inpatient stays, emergency department visits, and ambulatory surgery in U.S. hospitals. These databases are created by AHRQ through a Federal-State-Industry partnership."

"The National Institute of Mental Health Data Archive (NDA) makes available human subjects data collected from hundreds of research projects across many scientific domains. The NDA provides infrastructure for sharing research data, tools, methods, and analyses enabling collaborative science and discovery. De-identified human subjects data, harmonized to a common standard, are available to qualified researchers. Summary data is available to all."

Datasets available from CDC.

"The HRSA Data Warehouse provides maps, data, reports and dashboard to the public. Our data integrates with external sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, providing information about HRSA’s grants, loan and scholarship programs, health centers and other public health programs and services."

"The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $675 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

Through the ACS, we know more about jobs and occupations, educational attainment, veterans, whether
people own or rent their home, and other topics. Public officials, planners, and entrepreneurs use this information to assess the past and plan the future. When you respond to the ACS, you are doing your part to help your community plan hospitals and schools, support school lunch programs, improve emergency services, build bridges, and inform businesses looking to add jobs and expand to new markets, and more."

Interactive tools for incorporating census and other data into maps and reports. Data categories include amenities, environment, demographic information, health, and more.

Tables summarizing health statistics for Detroit, including natality, cancer, mortality and medical procedures.

CDC-funded study that measures risky behaviors and general health of Detroit schoolchildren.

CDC Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey city and county level data.

Open data portal for the City of Detroit.

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program compiles state surveillance data for children age <72 months who were tested for lead at least once since January 1, 1997." Michigan-specific reports and information: http://www.michigan.gov/lead/0,5417,7-310-66221_66223---,00.html

Global health statistics and data on a variety of diseases, including reports on many global health themes and problems.

"The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a catalog of global health and demographic data. The goal of the GHDx is to help people locate data by cataloging information about data including the topics covered, by providing links to data providers or explaining how to acquire the data, and in cases where we have permission, providing the data directly for download. Use the GHDx to research population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health."

"data...published by government departments and agencies, public bodies and local authorities."

Data portal for Canadian government information.

Openly available datasets from European Union governmental bodies.

"The Global Open Data Index (GODI) is the annual global benchmark for publication of open government data, run by the Open Knowledge Network."

Searchable index of over 2,000 disciplinary and institutional data repositories.

"An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields."

European data repository developed by CERN.
"The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013."

"figshare allows users to upload any file format to be previewed in the browser so that any research output, from posters and presentations to datasets and code, can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow." Figshare hosts research data in many formats from around the world.

Repository containing over 75,000 datasets in the dataverse.

Portal to data collected and made available by the U.S. government. Some state and municipal data, and data from NGOs, included as well.

"The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes."

Search for files and datasets, and contact authors for permission to use.

"The DRC is a non-profit, national data resource providing easy access to children’s health data on a variety of important topics, including the health and well-being of children and access to quality care.

The DRC is sponsored by a cooperative agreement from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. We also receive additional support from a variety of funders and partners. The DRC is an initiative of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, a nationally recognized leader in improving the health and well-being of children through a focus on the application of standardized measures to document and improve the quality of care."

Heath data in ICPSR sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

National foundation that tracks and reports on the state of healthcare affordability, insurance markets, and health disparities trends, among other projects.

"Open Health Data features peer-reviewed data papers describing health datasets with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional data repositories to ensure that the associated data are professionally archived, preserved, and openly available. Equally importantly, the data and the papers are citable, and reuse will be tracked."

"As of October 2016, the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) data platform has more than 50 indicators that look at health status, death rates, and other socio-economic and demographic factors that affect the health of a community.

The indicators encompass nine broad categories of public health importance: Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse; Cancer; Chronic Disease; Environmental Health; Food Safety; HIV/AIDs; Infectious Disease; Injury and Violence; and Maternal and Child Health. Two additional categories include demographics and life expectancy/overall death rate."

Table of data streams found in literature search for PLoS article. Useful data streams include hotline call data, social media aggregator data, and web query data about health terms.
Margevicius, K. J., Generous, N., Taylor-McCabe, K. J., Brown, M., Daniel, W. B., Castro, L., ... & Deshpande, A. (2014). Advancing a framework to enable characterization and evaluation of data streams useful for biosurveillance. PloS one, 9(1), e83730.

"HSRIC is a research portal of health services research resources providing numerous Internet links to data, funding announcements, reports, podcasts, discussion groups, and more. It is not an index of all health services resources on the Web." This is the HSRIC list of resources related to health disparities.

J-PAL is a network of 158 affiliated professors from 51 universities who work to end poverty through policy work. They maintain a catalog of administrative datasets related to health inequalities and other poverty-related issues.