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Books the Learning Research Center has at Felbry College School of Nursing

Statistical Reasoning for Evveryday Life by Jeffrey Bennett

Statistics Concepts and Controversies by David S. Moore

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CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Data and Statistics related to issues like foodborne illness, diabetes, heart disease, and immunizations.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Data and statistics topics, tools, and related organizations at CDC.

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Important information and data about maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health ageing.

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Stats and Data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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COVID-19 Open Data - Our Data is Your Data

Posted by Kevin Duvall on December 18, 2020

By: Heather Strosnider, Co-Lead, Integrated Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Joint Coordination Cell; Kelly Bennett, Co-Lead, Integrated Surveillance, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)/Joint Coordination Cell; Amy Gleason, Data Strategy and Execution Workgroup Lead, US Digital Service/Joint Coordination Cell; Kristen Honey, Chief Data Scientist and Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), HHS; and Kevin Duvall, Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO), Office of the CDO, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
COVID-19 Community Profile Report

On December 18, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with significant contribution from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), began publishing the COVID-19 Community Profile Report publicly on our websites. This will give the American people the same community level information that is available to federal personnel. We hope the publication of this data will help Americans make personal choices to slow the spread.

Community-Driven Data for a Data-Driven Pandemic Response

The Community Profile Report (CPR) is generated by the Data Strategy and Execution Workgroup in the Joint Coordination Cell, under the White House COVID-19 Task Force. The data in this report provides aggregate information on the overall status of areas across the country. It is managed by an interagency team with representatives from multiple agencies and offices within HHS (including CDC, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), and the Indian Health Service (IHS)). The CPR provides easily interpretable information on key indicators for all regions, states, core-based statistical areas (CBSAs), and counties across the United States.

It is a daily snapshot that:

Focuses on recent COVID-19 outcomes in the last seven days and changes relative to the week prior.

Provides additional contextual information at the county, CBSA, state and regional level.

Supports rapid visual interpretation of results with color thresholds.

HHS believes in the power of open data and transparency. By publicly posting the reports that our own response teams use and by having others outside of the federal response use the information, the data will only get better.

Data in this report may differ from data on state and local websites. This may be due to differences in how data were reported, including differences in definitions, reporting dates, and methods for calculating summary metrics. In addition, historical data may be updated over time due to delayed reporting or corrections.

Standardization Across the Country

While each state reports data in slightly different ways, the CPR presents data using metrics that are standardized for use across all geographic levels in the United States. This standardization facilitates an understanding of various dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic trends across the United States because the metrics can be compared across jurisdictions. For example, the report presents weekly cases per 100,000 population, enabling a comparison of case rates against the population of each area. Additionally, the data sources and methods provide clarity into how the data were analyzed. To address privacy concerns, the data is presented in aggregates (such as a 7-day average or total), without demographics. For additional data for a locality, visit the relevant health department website.

Community-Driven Data for a Data-Driven Pandemic Response

We all have an interest in ensuring that COVID-19 open datasets are high quality and publicly accessible in a consistent and timely manner. All sectors - government, industry, academia, non-profit organizations, and the public - have a critical role in our COVID-19 response. In that spirit, we also encourage you to visit and contribute to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about this dataset. These living FAQs are crowdsourced from the public, so your contributions will improve these FAQs over time.

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Blog | COVID-19 Open Data - Our Data is Your Data

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This blog post was posted by Kevin Duvall on December 18, 2020. It was written by Heather Strosnider, Co-Lead, Integrated Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Joint Coordination Cell; Kelly Bennett, Co-Lead, Integrated Surveillance, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)/Joint Coordination Cell; Amy Gleason, Data Strategy and Execution Workgroup Lead, US Digital Service/Joint Coordination Cell; Kristen Honey, Chief Data Scientist and Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), HHS; and Kevin Duvall, Deputy Chief Data Officer (CDO), Office of the CDO, U.S.

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CDC-National Center for Health Statistics

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CDC-National Center for Health Statistics

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National Center for Health Statistics

CDC - NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics

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FastStats is an official application from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and puts access to topic-specific statistics at your fingertips.

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Comparing health data state by state

Map | Median Medical Out-of-Pocket Spending by Total | State Health Access Data Assistance Center (shadac.org)

Helpful links with great visuals and maps

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Explore Data | State Health Access Data Assistance Center

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"Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor health events such as diseases, see the impact of policy changes, and assess the quality and safety of health care." (NIH.gov)

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1. About Health Statistics

Overview

"Health statistics are numbers that summarize information related to health."1

Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor health events such as diseases, see the impact of policy changes, and assess the quality and safety of health care. Health statistics are a form of evidence or facts that can support a conclusion. Both evidence-informed policy-making and evidence-based medicine (EBM) are essential to informing how best to provide health care and promote population health.
Evidence-Informed Policy-Making
"an approach to policy decisions that is intended to ensure that decision making is well-informed by the best available research evidence"2
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
"the conscientious, explicit, judicious and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients"3

Not all evidence equally supports a conclusion. Evidence varies in quality and applicability to a given situation. For that reason, it is essential that health researchers and policy makers understand how to assess evidence in a systematic way, including how to access transparent, high quality health statistics and information.

Health statistics typically measure four types of information. The types are commonly referred to as the four Cs: correlates, conditions, care and costs. The first section of this course examines each type of information.

1. "Health Statistics." MedlinePlus, 17 Apr. 2020, https://medlineplus.gov/healthstatistics.html.

2. Oxman, A.D., Laivs, J.N., Lewin, S., and A. Fretheim. SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP)1: What is evidence-informed policymaking? Health Research Policy and Systems, 7(S1). 2009.

3. Masic, I., Miokovic, M. and B. Muhamadagic. Evidence Based Medicine- New Approaches and Challenges. Acta Informatica Medica, 16(4). 2008.

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"Health statistics are numbers that summarize information related to health."1 Health statistics are used to understand risk factors for communities, track and monitor health events such as diseases, see the impact of policy changes, and assess the quality and safety of health care. Health statistics are a form of evidence or facts that can support a conclusion.