Data Gathering Steps for Community Health / Healthy People 2020 Assignment:

1) Select an objective from Focus Area 5 (Diabetes), Focus Area 12 (Heart Disease/Stroke) or Focus Area 24 (Respiratory Diseases) of Healthy People 2010.

• Healthy People 2020 online

2) Find statistical/demographic data on your topic:
(Remember this is not an exhaustive list of resources, merely a starting place, you can also search Google or other search engines looking for specific data as you narrow down your needs.)

Government Health Pages
	City/County Health Data Seattle King County Department of Public Health Snohomish County Health District Tacoma - Pierce County Health Department
	State Health Data Washington State Department of Health
	National Health Data U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Center's for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. National Center for Health Statistics

Other Statistical Websites
	Association Statistics Pages American Heart Association Statistics Page (Heart and Stroke) American Diabetes Association Statistics Page (Diabetes) American Lung Association Statistics Page (Respiratory Diseases)
	College and University Health Statistics Pages University of California at Berkeley - Public Health Resources on the internet University of  Pittsburgh - Health Statistics University of Michigan - Statistical Health Resources on the Web Boston University - Alumni Medical Library Weblinks Tuft's University - Health Statistics on the Web University of Washington - Health Links
	Other Health Statistics Pages Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online - Includes financial and demographic health statistics at the state level for all 50 states. WrongDiagnosis.com - included national and international prevelence and incidence information.  includes excellent documentation about the source of their information.
	Other Government Search Engines Find-It! Washington - Search engine for Washington state Government Pages - includes state and county information. FedStats - "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."

3) Find statistics on the behavioral risk factors that might be related to your Health People 2010 Objective:
         CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

4) Find additional research data by searching the Nursing Literature:
        SPU Library Nursing / Health Sciences Databases

5) Contact Carrie Fry, Librarian for the School of Health Sciences, if you have problems finding, accessing or interpreting data that you need. cfry@spu.edu
 

 rev. 01/11/11