Data Sources

Nebraska Rural Health Works - Community Health Economic Profiles
(Over half of Nebraska's counties have been completed at this time)
http://www.unmc.edu/rural/NeRHW/reports/

HHSS research & statistics page
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/srd/srdindex.htm

Nebraska County Profiles
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/profiles/index.htm

NE Vital Statistics report (birth, death, marriage, divorce)
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/ced/VitalStatsReport/vs04.pdf

NE Cancer Registry
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/ced/cancer/data.htm

HHSS STDs Page
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/cod/std/stdindex.htm#data

HHSS Child Abuse
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/cha/chaindex.htm

HHSS Diabetes report
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/SRD/DiabetesBurdenReport03.pdf

HHSS Dental Health
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/dental/data/

CDC Water Fluoridation (can check if your community fluoridates it's water)
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/MWF/Index.asp

HHSS Cardiovascular Health - including Obesity
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/hew/hpe/cvh/Stats.htm

HHSS Injury Prevention Website
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/hpe/injury.htm

Tobacco Free Nebraska
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/tfn/tfnpubrep.htm

HHSS Minority Health
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/OMH/RRRD.htm

NE Department of Education:
http://ess.nde.state.ne.us/DataCenter/DataInformation/

NE Dept. of Ed. (State of the Schools report)
http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us/Main/Home.asp

NE Department of Roads
http://www.nebraskatransportation.org/highway-safety/

BRFSS  - 2001-2003 Nebraska report
http://www.hhss.ne.gov/srd/BRFSS2001-2003.pdf

BRFSS (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm

Health Education Inc. (Includes the results of the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey [YRBS] of Nebraska Public High School Students - Grades 9-12)
http://www.healtheducation.org/index.php?p=statistics

Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) and the Pregnancy Surveillance System (PNSS)
http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/pednss/index.htm

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (CDC)
www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm

NE Partners in Prevention
http://www.nebraskaprevention.gov/state_and_local_data.htm

NE Crime Commission
www.ncc.state.ne.us

Kids Count 2006 Data Book
www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/databook.jsp

National Women’s Health Indicators Database - Quick Health Data Online
www.womenshealth.gov/quickhealthdata

National Immunization Survey
www.cdc.gov/nip/coverage

Child Abuse and Neglect data
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cwo02/state_data/nebraska.htm

Trust for America's Health Report on Obesity Policies
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2005/

Updated trend tables include death rates by underlying cause updated to 2004 and childhood immunizations updated to 2005
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/updatedtables.htm


Additional data sources, not available on the web include:

Medicaid
Birth Defects
Ambulance Runs
Hospital Discharge (which includes ER and outpatient)
CODES (crash outcome)
Trauma
Parkinsons

For more information contact the Nebraska Health and Human Services System at 402-471-3121