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

Visit the IPHTP

CDC Wonder

Type of data: population-based

Who: US population

What: incidence and mortality data

Visit CDC Wonder

National Equity Atlas

Type of data: population-based

Who: US population

What: racial equity data

Visit National Equity Atlas

American Community Survey

Type of data: population-based

Who: US population

What: community-level social and economic data

Visit American Community Survey

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

Visit City Health Dashboard

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

Visit PLACES

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

Visit BRFSS

County Health Rankings

Type of data: representative sample

Who: US population by counties

What: rankings for health outcomes and health factors among counties

Visit County Health Rankings

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.)

Visit YRBSS


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!

Instructional Modules