May 29, 2009
Illinois & Chicago : Public Health data sources
Posted by cmaene under Chicago, IllinoisComments Off
Access to individual health related data is restricted as you can imagine – personal data must be protected/kept confidential. Hence public health data are generally available as aggregated data. Here are some public health data available for Illinois.
Typically, public health summary reports like the ones below contain: vital statistics, chronic disease cases such as cancers, and various community health indicators, such as asthma, (teen) pregnancies, infectious diseases, suicide/homicide rates, accidents & injuries.
County level data
- IPLAN (IL) http://app.idph.state.il.us/
- Cancer registry (IL) http://www.idph.state.il.us/cancer/statistics.htm (generate a table and copy and paste in Excel)
- More statistics and reports by type (IL) http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/statshome.htm (once generating a report, scroll down to the end/bottom, and click on “download” to get the data in comma delimited format.)
Municipality/community level
- [Note: the following data needs to be transcribed to data table format.]
- Cook County suburbs data reports http://www.cookcountypublichealth.org/programs-services/community-epidemiology-health-planning/community-profiles
- Chicago community area profiles: http://www.cchsd.org/cahealthprof.html
- … check your local community’s public health offices
[Image above: EPA Superfund sites (worst hazardous wastes sites) over Illinois counties map showing pediatric cancer rates (per 100,000) ]
http://www.dot.il.gov/gist2/select.html
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/ISGSindex.html