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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
(BRFSS) |
| Washington State BRFSS
collects information about behavior that may
affect health from English-speaking adults
living in households in Washington State. |
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| Birth |
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Vital Statistics:
Birth |
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Information such as
pregnancy history, parents' education,
prenatal care, and birth weight. |
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| Death |
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Child Death Review Data and Reports
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Information on all
unexpected deaths of children from birth
through age 17, except those due to
premature birth. Includes data (such
as pre-existing social stressors, child
supervision, and access to services) that
are not inherent in death certificates,
traffic reports, hospital data, or other
data sources. |
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Vital Statistics: Death |
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Information such as causes
of death, injuries, occupation, and age |
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Vital Statistics: Fetal Death
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Information such as
pregnancy history, prenatal care, and causes
of death for fetal deaths occurring when the
gestational periods are twenty weeks or
more. |
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Vital Statistics: Infant Death
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Data from the Washington
State Birth and Death Certificate Systems
are used to produce combined information
records about the births and deaths. |
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Occupational Mortality Database |
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The data in the web
application may be used to investigate
associations between occupations and causes
of death. |
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Community Health Assessment Tool (CHAT) |
| A standardized tool for community health assessment
that is used across the Washington State
public health system. |
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Geographic Information Systems Data
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| A geographic
information system (GIS), is an information
system for capturing, storing, analyzing,
managing and presenting data which is
spatially referenced (linked to location). |
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Health of Washington State |
| This is a
comprehensive, statewide assessment of
health status, health risks, and health
systems in Washington. |
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Healthy Youth Survey |
| A
collaborative effort of the Office of
the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the Department of Health,
the Department of Social and Health
Services' Division of Alcohol and
Substance Abuse, and Community Trade and
Economic Development. Provides
information about students in grades 6,
8, 10, and concerning safety and
violence; physical activity and diet;
alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; and
related risk and protective factors. |
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Hospital Data |
| Data are grouped
in three sections including Patient
Information, which has data relevant to
hospital inpatients; Hospital Discharge
Data, which has data relevant to hospital
charge comparison; and Hospital Financial,
which has information on hospital financial
and utilization. Data in these
sections are distributed as raw data sets,
statistical tabulations, web pages, and DOH
reports. |
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Local Public Health Indicators |
| Together, the 32
indicators included in the Local Public
Health Indicators database provide a
snapshot of health status, health behavior,
and public health system performance at the
local level. Local public health
agencies can use these data to help evaluate
their work and decide where to invest
limited public health resources to improve
community health. |
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Vital Statistics
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| Vital statistics
include data sets related to birth, death,
marriage/divorce and abortion. They
provide powerful indicators of health
problems and, therefore, can help us to
track progress toward health improvement
goals. |
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Washington
Tracking Network |
| The Washington
Tracking Network (WTN) portal enables public
access to data, maps and charts for a
variety of environmental public health
issues. WTN puts data in context by
providing issue backgrounders, prevention
strategies, resources, and links to
programs. As a partner of the Environmental
Public Health Network, the goal of WTN is to
support assessment and use of data for
public health action. |
