Secondary Data Sources for Public Health : A Practical Guide / Sarah Boslaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boslaugh, Sarah.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Research--Statistical methods.

Public health.

Epidemiology--Research--Statistical methods.

Epidemiology.

Data Collection--United States.

Data Collection.

Epidemiology--United States.

Public health--United States.

Epidemiology--Research.

Statistics.

Public health--Research.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

Secondary data play an increasingly important role in epidemiology and public health research and practice; examples of secondary data sources include national surveys such as the BRFSS and NHIS, claims data for the Medicare and Medicaid systems, and public vital statistics records. Although a wealth of secondary data is available, it is not always easy to locate and access appropriate data to address a research or policy question.

This practical guide circumvents these difficulties by providing an introduction to secondary data and issues specific to its management and analysis, followed by an enumeration of major sources of secondary data in the United States. Entries for each data source include the principal focus of the data, years for which it is available, history and methodology of the data collection process, and information about how to access the data and supporting materials, including relevant details about file structure and format.

Contents:

1 An Introduction to Secondary Data Analysis 1

What Are Secondary Data? 1

Advantages and Disadvantages of Secondary Data Analysis 3

Locating Appropriate Secondary Data 5

Questions to Ask About Any Secondary Data Set 8

Considerations Relating to Causal Inference 10

2 Health Services Utilization Data 12

The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 13

The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey 16

The National Hospital Discharge Survey 17

Other National Health Care Survey Data Sets 19

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 22

The Medical Expenditures Panel Survey 25

The National Immunization Survey 28

The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program 31

3 Health Behaviors and Risk Factors Data 34

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 34

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 39

Monitoring the Future 43

4 Data on Multiple Health Topics 47

The National Health Examination Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 47

The National Health Interview Survey 53

The Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health 56

The Longitudinal Studies of Aging 57

The State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey 60

5 Fertility and Mortality Data 65

The National Vital Statistics System 66

The Compressed Mortality File 70

The National Death Index 71

The National Mortality Followback Survey 73

The National Maternal and Infant Health Survey and Longitudinal Followup 76

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System 78

The National Survey of Family Growth 79

6 Medicare and Medicaid Data 83

The Medicare Denominator Record Files 85

The Standard Analytical Files 86

The Medicare Provider Analysis and Review Files 86

The Prospective Payment System Files 87

Other Medicare Research Identifiable Files 88

Medicare Public Use Files 89

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 91

The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey 94

Medicaid Data 96

7 Other Sources of Data 100

The U.S. Census 101

The Area Resource File 104

The General Social Survey 106

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 107

The Henry A. Murray Research Archive 108

The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods 109

Web Portals to Statistical Data 111

Adverse Events and Clinical Trials Information 112

Data Sets Commonly Used in Teaching 113

Appendix II Summary of Data Sets and Years Available 119

Appendix III Data Import and Transfer 123.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780511618802

9780521870016

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