epi query jan-25-2011
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EpiQuery
New York City’s Interactive Health Data System
https://a816-healthpsi.nyc.gov/epiquery/EpiQuery/
Mark Aaron Polger, January 25, 2011Library Faculty Professional Development Day
EpiQuery
• Provided by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Answer health-related questions about your neighbourhood, borough, and New York City
• Provides data sources from 2000-present• Users can run basic cross tabulations• Provides access to birth and death rates, obesity, smoking rates,
nutrition, communicable diseases, and NYC population data
EpiQuery
• User-friendly data analysis tool– 9 data sources:
• Community Health Survey (CHS)
• Communicable Disease Surveillance System (CDSS)
• NYC Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYCHANES)
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• Vital Statistics Birth Data
• Vital Statistics Death/Mortality Data
• Vital Statistics Death/Mortality Trend Data
• World Trade Centre Health Registry Baseline Survey
• Environmental EpiQuery
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• Data is age adjusted– Age adjustment relates to standardizing the data
to 2000 U.S. Standard Population. Many health outcomes / behaviours relate to age. Age adjustment compares attributes of groups whose age distributions may be different.
– Example: smoking rates in men and women. Since the women sampled in the CHS were older, age adjustment must be taken into account
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Cross tabulate data: link two different survey questions together.How old were you when you first started smoking cigarettes regularly?
In the past year, how often did you ride a bicycle in one of the five boroughs of
New York City?
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Questions?