• Adolescents
• Adoption
• AIDS
• Alcohol Abuse
• Asthma
• Automobile/Traffic Accidents
• Behavioral
• Births
• Breastfeeding
• California County Profiles
• Cancer
• Census Data
• Child Abuse
• Chronic Disease
• Corrections
• Criminal Justice
• Deaths
• Demographics
• Dental Care
• Diabetes
• Disabilities
• Diseases/Conditions Inventory
• Domestic Violence
• Drug Abuse
• Drug Arrests
• Economics
• Education
• Employment
• Environmental Health
• Fetal Mortality
• Food Stamps
• Foodborne Disease
• Foster Care
• Health Care
• Health Insurance
• Hospitalization
• Immunization
• Infant Mortality
• Infectious Disease
• Injury & Violence
• Injury Hotspot Data
• Juvenile Arrests
• Maternal Mental Health
• Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
• MediCal Data
• Mental Health
• Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Nutrition/Food Security
• Obesity
• Oral Health
• Physical Fitness
• Population
• Poverty
• Preterm Birth
• Prison
• School District Profiles
• School Enrollment
• School Lunch/Meal
• School Profiles
• Social Services
• Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
• Substance Use & Mental Health
• Teen Birth
• Tobacco/Tobacco Use
• Unemployment
• Vital Records
• Women's Health

• Adolescents

  Adolescent Health

• California Adolescent Health Collaborative Data Sources:

   • ASHWG Data (2019)

• CDPH Adolescent Health Data & Statistics - tables, slide sets, reports and links to provide surveillance and program data and statistics related to adolescent health in California
• Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health - Interactive data query for the National Survey of Children's Health
• Youth Risk Behavior Survelliance System  -The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a set of surveys that track behaviors that can lead to poor health in public school students grades 9 through 12.
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS): Data Summary Trends Report - This report provides the most recent surveillance data, as well as 10-year trends, on health behaviors and experiences among high school students in the United States (U .S .) related to adolescent health and well-being
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) - Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) from the CDC, for most states (including CA) 2021. Includes variables on Sex, Race, Grade, and Sexual Orientation.

• Adolescent Mental Health

• CDC: Children's Mental Health
• Mental Health America: Youth Data 2022 - Youth rankings for mental health by state

• Adolescent Substance Abuse

• Drug Use Among Youth: Facts and Statistics
• The Evolution of the Opioid Crisis: 2000 - 2017, interactive data visualizations
• The Evolution of the Opioid Crisis: 2000-2018

• Behavioral 

  Alcohol & Drug Use

  California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) - Reports
  County level reports on alcohol and other drug use, tobacco use, violence and school safety, nutrition and physical health, sexual behavior and attitudes, and youth resilience.

  State Estimates of Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders
  State-level indicators from NSDUH

  Women of Childbearing Age and Opioids:
  Results from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health surveys (NSDUHs) 2007-2012

  2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and continuing years

  California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard - The dashboards and data available through this application are the result of ongoing collaboration between the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), Department of Justice, and the California Health Care Foundation. - this currently includes data up through 2015. 

  Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA) - Substance Use

• Go to: county data snapshots 

• Physical Fitness

• Physical Fitness Testing
  CDE > Includes information regarding the physical fitness test required to be administered to students in grades 5, 7, and 9.

• Tobacco Use

• Proportion of High School Students Who Smoked Cigarettes in the Past 30 Days - The data table shows the current smoking prevalence for California high school youth by selected demographics.

• Let's Get Healthy Health California Indicator - California Health and Human Services Open Data portal

• Tobacco Control Fact Sheets

• CDPH > Tobacco Control Program>
  Provides background information on California's tobacco control environment.

• Tobacco Sold to Minors, California - The data table shows the percentage of stores that sold tobacco to minors under age 18 each year from 1997-2018 and includes the 95% confidence interval.

• Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding Data
• CDPH 

• California County Profiles

• County Health Rankings

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation >
  The annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen births in nearly every county in America. The annual Rankings provide a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work and play. 

• Community Health Needs Assessment
• California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research >

  The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) provides public health information for California's diverse population. Results on a variety of health topics are produced for the entire state and for most counties. The survey takes place every two years.

• California Department of Finance (DOF)
• California Report Card 

• Children Now > The California Children’s Report Card grades the state on how it supports better outcomes for kids, from prenatal to age 26. 

• California Geographic Information Systems (GIS) & Maps

• Geographic information systems are networks of computer hardware, software and services, designed to work with data that has a particular dimension of interest: geographic location. This location information may be any kind of spatial reference, such as a street address, a set of latitude-longitude coordinates or the center point of a zip code boundary.
  Whatever the spatial reference is, geographic information systems can use it to provide a graphical display or statistical analysis of such data as healthcare facility capacities, cases of West Nile virus, or effects of environmental factors on childhood asthma.

• List of California Counties - General statistics about the counties of California.

• Cancer

• California Cancer Registry: The California Cancer Registry (CCR) is California's statewide population-based cancer surveillance system. The CCR collects information about all cancers diagnosed in California (except basal and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin and carcinoma in situ of the cervix). The availability of data on cancer in the state allows health researchers to analyze geographic, ethnic, occupational and other differences that provide clues that point to risk factors. The data also helps determine where early detection, educational or other programs should be directed.
• SEER Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results: The SEER program collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population.

• Chronic Diseases 

  Asthma

  Asthma in California

• California Department of Public Health: Several publications about Asthma in California Counties, including hospitalization rates and mortality rates.
• Asthma Emergency Department Visit Rates: This dataset contains counts and rates (per 10,000 residents) of asthma emergency department visits among California residents by county and age group (all ages, 0-17, 18+). The data are derived from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development databases.

• Diabetes

• County Levels Estimates of Diagnosed Diabetes

• Obesity

  California Health Interview Survey 2009

• Overweight and Obese Children 2 (excel)
• Overweight and Obese Children 5-19 (excel)
• Healthy Communities: What Local Governments Can Do to Reduce and Prevent Obesity (pdf)
• Healthy Weight, Child and BMI Calculator
  • CDC > Obesity > This report contains 24 recommended obesity prevention strategies focusing on environmental and policy-level change initiatives that can be implemented by local governments and school districts to promote healthy eating and active living.
• Overweight and Unfit Children in California Assembly Districts
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy > To determine whether there have been changes in the epidemic of overweight in children since 2001, CCPHA analyzed data from the California Department of Education's 2004 Physical Fitness Test and compared the findings to results from 2001 that we previously published. Findings are reported for each state Assembly District.
• Obesity Prevention Strategies

• Criminal Justice

• Criminal Justice Statistics Center
• California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - Reports and Research
• California Department of Corrections: The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation publishes a variety of reports that range from statistical summaries of its offender populations to evaluation research reports on innovative rehabilitative treatment programs. These include population reports, offender information and demographics, population projections and historical trends, among others.

• Diseases/Conditions Inventory 

• Diseases & Conditions
• CDPH

• Economics 

• also see Population

• Poverty

• County Poverty Rates 2009 (excel)
• US Census Bureau 
• Unemployment
• Employment Development Department
•  Labor Market Info: Link to California query for county and sub county unemployment rates.

• Education

• Education Data Partnership: These Ed-Data Profiles provide a comprehensive picture of each school, district and county, with statewide totals and links to additional data or explanations. The Profiles are organized in three sections: General, Students and Staffing.
• Student Demographics
• CDE: Data files pertaining to student and school demographics that can be downloaded to your computer.
• California Elementary Schools: A list of California elementary schools by city.
• California High Schools: All California high schools are organized by city.
• Data Quest
• California Department of Education: Data Quest helps you find facts about California Schools and districts.

• Data Quest - Special Education

• CDE: Enrollment by Age and Disability and Ethnicity and Disability - state, county, district and school level data.
• Fact Book: Handbook of Education Information
• CDE: Provides statistics and information on a variety of subjects concerning education in California.
• STAR Test Results
• CDE 
• Standardized Testing and Reporting: STAR Test results.

• Demographics

• MapStats: United States - Statistical profiles of states, counties, cities, congressional districts, and federal judicial districts.

• Environmental Health

• Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC)
• California Environmental Protection Agency: Updated reports on environmental indicators for the state of California.
• Air Quality Data
• Environmental Protection Agency: Compares air quality between counties.

• Foodborne Disease

• Epidemiologic Summary of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks in California, 2001 - 2008 (pdf)
• Division of Communicable Disease Control
• Infectious Disease Branch: This report describes the epidemiology of FBDOs in California from 2001 through 2008.

• General Health Statistics

• Health, United States 2020-2021 - An annual overview of national trends in health statistics.

• General Health Status/Indicators

• National Survey of Children's Health - This survey, sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, examines the physical and emotional health of children ages 0-17 years of age.
• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being: 2022 - A compendium of indicators depicting both the promises and the challenges confronting our Nation's young people. The report presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives.

• Health Care/Health Insurance

• Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2021 Current Population Reports - Data from the Census Population Survey
• Insurance Rates for Children (excel)
• Insurance Rates for Women 20-44 (excel)
• Medi-Cal Eligibility for children 0-17 (excel)
• Medi-Cal Eligibility for Women 19-44 (excel)

• MediCal Data

• Medi-Cal: County-level Medi-Cal data.
• Medi-Cal Insurance Coverage - Prenatal Health Insurance (excel): Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA) 2013 survey.
• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research: The Center strives to understand and advance public health policies that can improve access to health care as well as promote good health among diverse populations in California.
• Setting CCS Action Priorities for California's Title V 5-Year Plan (ppt): This Power Point presentation presents the process and assessment data used at meetings of the California Children's Services (CCS) Title V Children With Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Needs Assessment Stakeholder meetings. The purpose of the meetings was to obtain stakeholder input and to assist CCS in establishing its Title V 5-Year action priorities. (April 2005)
• Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN): Issues and Options in Selecting Health Indicators (pdf)
• FHOP > Publications: A 60-page PDF document reviewing the state of the art of indicators for CSHCN in order to provide guidance to those public/private agencies interested in measuring the impact of changes on this population.(January 1999)

• Dental Care 

• Denti-Cal Facts and Figures
• California HealthCare Foundation: This site provides an overview of California's Medicaid dental program, known as Denti-Cal. It highlights key statistics and trends related to access, utilization, expenditures, and providers.
• Dental Managed Care Plan Utilization: Medi-Cal data showing County utilization percentages by Medi-Cal children for Dental Managed Care and Dental Fee-for-Service.
• Dental Health Foundation: This site provides the latest findings in dental research to the general public, educators, and health practitioners.
• also see CHIS

• Hospitalizations

• Hospital and Health Facilities and Service Utilization Data
• Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development: Information on hospital discharges, home and long-term care, primary care and specialty service utilization data and health facilities data.
• Interactive Maps; Data & Map Products
• Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
• Preventable Hospitalizations in California (1999 - 2008)
• Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development > Healthcare Information Division: Statewide and County Trends in Access to and Quality of Outpatient Care Measured with Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs)

• Immunization

• Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance
• CDPH
• Immunization Branch: Most recent reports on vaccine-preventable diseases in California.
• National Immunization Survey - The NIS is a list-assisted random-digit-dialing telephone survey followed by a mailed survey to children's immunization providers that began data collection in April 1994 to monitor childhood immunization coverage.
• School Immunizations (includes PBEs) in Child Care, (2013-2015)  in Kindergarten, (2013-2015) and in 7th Grade, (2013-2015) -  School immunization data are contained in three separate, but similar, tables, one each for child care, kindergarten and 7th grade students. The data are from the 2013-2014 academic year.

• Infectious Diseases

  AIDS

• HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
• HIV Surveillance Report - Rates of diagnoses of HIV infection among adults and adolescents, by area of residence, 2020—United States and 6 dependent areas.
• CDPH > Prevention Services 
• Office of AIDS: Death and survival data on AIDS, including the California County Epidemiological Fact Sheet.

• Sexually Transmitted Disease 

• California Local Health Jurisdiction STD Data
• California Department of Public Health: This site contains STD data summaries by local health jurisdiction, as well as for the entire state. Data are broken down by disease, gender, age group, and race/ethnicity.
• California Local Health Jurisdiction STD Data Summaries, 2010 Provisional Data (pdf): This file contains STD data summaries by local health jurisdiction for 2010. Data are broken down by disease, gender, age group, and race/ethnicity.
• Chlamydia, Cases & Rates for Females Ages 15-24, California Counties & Selected City Health Jurisdictions, 2006-2010 Provisional Data (pdf): This file contains chlamydia data for females age 15-24 by local health jurisdiction for 2010.

• Injury and Violence

• California Injury Data Online
• California Department of Health Care Services
• Domestic Violence Statistics
• EPICenter: EPIC's mission is to provide accurate, timely and objective information on injuries. It is the most complete source of injury data for California.
• Injuries by Cause and Age
• California Department of Public Health
•  EPICenter: Data tables by California county.

• Domestic Violence 

• Number of Domestic Violence Calls (pdf)
• RAND California Statistics
• Community Statistics
• Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence, California, 1998-2002 (pdf)
• Findings from the California Women's Health Survey, 1997-2003: This article reviews prevalence data of intimate partner violence(also defined here as domestic violence [DV]) reported by California Women's Health Survey (CWHS)respondents during 1998 through 2001. Where possible, intimate partner violence is further broken down into categories of intimate partner physical domestic violence (IPP-DV), control, threats, sexual assault, and stalking. This chapter also assesses all 2002 respondents' expressed inclination to use DV related services if they were experiencing intimate partner violence.
• County Snapshots - Intimate Partner Violence 2013-2014 from MIHA 2013 Survey

• Motor Vehicle Accidents

• Annual Report of Fatal and Injury Motor Vehicle Traffic Collisions
• California State Highway Patrol: See Section 8 - Reports by County.
• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Web-Based Encyclopedia
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
• National Center for Statistics and Analysis: Data on motor vehicle accidents and fatalities. You can drill down to county data.

• Maternal Health

• Mortality Rates in the U.S. 2021

• Maternal Mental Health

  Facts About Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder

  Maternal Morbidity and Mortality

• Costs of Maternal Hemorrhage in California (pdf)
• Costs of Gestational Hypertensive Disorders in California: Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Eclampsia (pdf)
• The California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review (CA-PAMR) (pdf): This Bulletin provides an update to the report on Maternal Death Reviews from 2002 to 2003 released in Spring 2011.

• Mental Health

• Statistics and Data Analysis
• Department of Mental Health: Statistics and Data Analysis collects and/or analyzes data within three major program areas, specifically, county mental health programs, Medi-Cal specialty mental health services, and state hospitals.
• Access to Mental Health Services Among California Women (pdf)
• Findings from the California Women's Health Survey, 1997-2003: This article examines demographic predictors of access to specialty mental health services including race/ethnicity and poverty as well as associated factors such as education, marital status, and health insurance status. Access is examined as a function of perceived need for mental health services in the past year, attempts to obtain those services, and utilization of specialty mental health services in the past year.
• Estimates of Need for Mental Health Services
• Department of Mental Health
• Statistics and Data Analysis: County level estimates of need for Mental Health Services by age, race/ethnicity and gender.

• Nutrition/Food Security 

• County Nutrition and Food Insecurity Profiles: The profiles provide local data describing the need for nutritious, affordable food and the extent to which the federal nutrition programs can help address that need.
• Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS): The Children's Medical Services (CMS) Branch released the 2006 PedNSS Annual Reports in CHDP Information Notice 07-D. The information notice provides a description of PedNSS reports and instructions for how to complete Performance Measure 6 using these reports.
• School Meals - Free/Reduced Price Data All Schools and Elementary Schools
• California Department of Education
• Nutrition Services Branch: The California Department of Education’s Nutrition Services Division tracks the number and percentage of students eligible for and enrolled in free or reduced price meal programs. Data includes public enrollment, number & percent of free & reduced meals, and the number of free & reduced eligible by school districts and school.
• Health Kids Survey: School district level data on student exposure to health risks, assets, levels of development supports and resiliency.

• Oral Health

• Children's Oral Health

• Population

• 2012-2016 American Community Survey (5-year estimates): Social and economic characteristics data, such as, income, poverty, education, marital status, health insurance coverage, disability and much more
• California Demographics
• California Department of Finance: Homepage for the Demographic Research Unit. According the DRU, "The Demographic Research Unit of the California Department of Finance is designated as the single official source of demographic data for State planning and budgeting."
• State and County QuickFacts: California
• US Census Bureau: Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography for California State and Counties.
• Census 2000: State and County Summary (excel)
• DOF
• Demographic Research Unit: Information on households and families.
• FTP Listing of California Counties
• US Census Bureau:This census page has census tract maps that go down to the block level for each of the counties.

• Preterm Birth

• March of Dimes 2016 Premature Birth Report Cards: Click on California to see some county-level data and reports. 

• Social Determinants of Health

• Healthy People 2030: Social Determinants of Health
• Adverse Childhood Experiences
• Social Determinants of Health and PLACES Data
• Datasets Containing SDOH Measures

• Social Services

• Adoption and Foster Care
• Children in Foster Care, 2011 (excel)
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Abuse Referrals
• Center for Social Services Research (UC Berkeley) 
• Child Welfare Research Center: These reports describe unduplicated counts of children per year who have been identified as a victim in a child abuse referral.
• Child Welfare Report System
• Center for Social Services Research (UC Berkeley)
• Foster Care Reports
• California Department of Social Services
• Food Stamps - Data Tables
• California Department of Social Services 
• Research and Data Reports: These data tables display data provided by County Welfare Departments concerning caseload and costs related to food stamp programs.

• Substance Use and Mental Health

• Substance Use and Mental Health Data Archive - SAMHSA conducts research on the mental health and substance use rates across the United States.

• Teen Birth 

• Teen Births in California (pdf)
• Public Health Institute: 2010 Spring Update.
• Teen Births & Costs by California Counties (2008) (pdf)
• Public Health Institute: Provides county level estimates on the cost of teen births to both tax payers and to society as well as teen birth rates.
• CA Teen Birth Rate Trends by County, 1995-1997 & 2004-2006 (pdf): This test map compares two time periods using birth rates for the 15-17 year old teen population.

• Vital Records

• American Community Survey Data - The American Community Survey (ACS) releases new data every year through a variety of data tables that you can access with different data tools.
• Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach in U.S. Cities - Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) is a comprehensive approach to help communities use data to reduce infant mortality.
• Vital Records Data Tables
• California Department of Public Health: Provide data on births, deaths (including fetal and infant deaths), morbidity and population demographics.
• Death Statistical Data Tables: These are the current available death statistical data tables based on the California death certificate information; contain statewide and county data.
• Vital Statistics of California
• California Department of Public Health: Annual report which contains statistical tabulations of births, deaths, and fetal deaths.
• Maternal Child Infant Health Assessment (MIHA) Survey: The Maternal and Infant Health Assessment, or MIHA, is an annual, statewide-representative survey of women with a recent live birth in California.
• Infant Mortality in the United States, 2019 - This report presents 2019 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data set (linked file) by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. The linked file differs from the mortality file, which is based entirely on death certificate.
• Infant Mortality by Race/Ethnicity, 2004-2013: This dataset provides five years of data on infant mortality by race/ethnicity. The death of a baby before his or her first birthday is called infant mortality. The dataset includes California live birth population data as well as counts and rates
• Newborn Screened Disorders by Race/Ethnicity, 2009-2013: This table presents the disorders diagnosed by the California Newborn Screening Program during the five-year period from 2009 through 2013. The counts of disorders are presented by race/ethnicity groups.
• Birth Profiles by Zip Code, 1989-2012: Birth Profiles by ZIP Code consist of the number of live births, based on the mother's residence at the time of delivery and include aggregates by Race/Ethnic Group of Mother, Age of Mother, Infant Birthweight, and Prenatal Care Trimester by ZIP Code.  These key health status indicators at the ZIP code level can be used to perform small area analysis to identify and target areas within cities and counties where public health programs may be needed. 

• Women's Health

• Women's Health 
• Women's Health Data and Statistics
• Findings from the California Women's Health Survey, 1997-2003 (pdf): This report is a compilation of the California Women's Health Survey (CWHS) findings for the period 1997 through 2003. The CWHS, the first California survey focusing on women's health, began in 1997 as a response to the lack of California-specific data on women's health status, behaviors and attitudes. The survey is the result of a unique collaborative effort between the California Department of Health Services, the California Department of Mental Health, the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the California Department of Social Services, California Medical Review, Inc (CMRI) (now called Lumetra), and the Public Health Institute. Contributing programs collaboratively design the survey and use the information derived from the survey to improve the health of California women through program planning, implementation, and evaluation.
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