Community Assessment, Planning and Implementation Data Sources
NYSDOH Sites
NYSDOH Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS and CHAI)
This site links to the Community Health Indicator Reports (CHIRS) and the County Health Assessment Indicators (CHAI). The site contains over 300 health-related indicators. State and county data are available for the majority of these indicators. From this site, nearly 20,000 tables, maps and trend graphs of health-related indicators are available for community health assessment and planning. The CHIRS allows one access to an indicator for all counties in NYS by health topic areas. The CHAI provides access to individual county profiles of these health topics, with direct links to county trend data.
NYSDOH County Health Indicators by Race/Ethnicity (CHIRE)
CHIRE provides selected health indicators by race/ethnicity for New York State and counties. Data related to births, deaths, and hospitalizations are presented.
NYSDOH County/ZIP code Perinatal Data Profile
Vital statistics data for a three-year period are used to create ZIP code-based tables of commonly requested perinatal data. Tables for individual counties are provided.
Leading Causes of Death in New York State
This site presents the five leading causes of death in New York State in the past ten years by age, gender, race, ethnicity region, and county. Statistics on the leading causes of premature death among New York residents is also provided.
Asthma surveillance data includes lifetime and current asthma prevalence by selected socio-demographic groups for the U.S. and NYS. In addition, hospital discharge and emergency department (ED) visit data from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) are also available at the state, county and ZIP code level. Data on county-specific asthma death rates, both crude and age-adjusted, are also available by region within NYS as well.
Cancer Registry/Cancer Statistics
Cancer indicators are provided for both incidence and mortality by county, New York State, and New York City. The site (body) of the cancer is available by the above geographic areas and by males and females.
Communicable Disease Statistics
These reports are on the number of cases and rates for the over 50 reportable communicable diseases in New York State. These data are available New York State, New York State excluding NYC, New York City and at the count level.
Health Data NY is an open data site devoted to state data accompanied by targeted public health messaging, expensive metadata and customized visualizations. Health Data NY not only provides raw data, but allows users to analyze and download valuable health data in a variety of formats; review comprehensive metadata; create visualizations of data; and share data and visualizations through popular social media tools like Twitter and Facebook.
Opioid-Related Data in New York State
This site contains the most up-to-date opioid data from the NYSDOH including a new Opioid Surveillance Data Dashboard application and the Opioid Annual Data Report, 2018. Trends, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, mortality, and more can be found here. Updates are posted frequently.
Report on Managed Care Plans Performance in New York State
These reports provide information on health plan performance with respect to primary and preventive health care, access to health care, behavioral health and enrollee satisfaction. Data are provided for commercial and government-sponsored managed care providers. Enrollment reports show the level of consumer participation in various types of managed care plans.
Vital Statistics (births, pregnancies, deaths)
This site provides annual reports containing data tables and charts, presenting information extracted from birth, death, and fetal death certificates. Data such as pregnancies and births by age, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and birthweight as well as deaths from selected causes, race and age are included. Data are presented for New York State by county.
Other Sites
County Health Rankings - Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health
This site was developed jointly by Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the CDC, and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. It compares the overall health of a county, with the health of other counties in the state. The ranking also includes factors that contribute to health such as health behaviors, quality of health care, and social and economic factors.
CDC’s - Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI)
The CHSI site produces county profiles for indicators of health outcomes (mortality and morbidity) health care access, health behaviors, social factors, and physical environment. A key feature of CHSI is the ability to compare the indicators of a selected county with demographically similar “peer counties” nationally. Indicators are also compared to the HP 2020 targets.
Kids Well-being Indicator Clearinghouse (KWIC)
KWIC provides NYS and county level data for a series of indicators organized by six life areas to monitor children’s health, education, and well-being. The website provides the user with mapping and graphing capabilities as well as a data query. Data are gathered from NYS agencies including health, education, social service, labor, and criminal justice.
U.S. Census Bureau – data.census.gov
The Census Bureau, through data.census.gov, provides access to data from the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Annual Population Estimates Program, and other economic and business-related surveys. The Fact Finder data system allows a user to search for data by topic, geography (state, county, city, town, and ZIP code), race/ethnic groups and industrial codes.