Module 3: Oral Health Data Tools And Statistics

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Toolkit for Dental Health Professionals

Evidence‐Based  Dental  Public Health

Oral Health Information  Tutorial for Dental  Public Health  Professionals

Data Tools and Statistics

Patient Information

Purpose: Provides instruction for public health dental  practitioners that focuses on finding and  evaluating information relevant to public  health dental practice. 

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human  Services, under Contract No. N01‐LM‐6‐3505 under the Houston Academy of Medicine‐Texas Medical Center Library.

Oral Health Data Tools  and Statistics

Objectives ƒ Develop a basic understanding of the types of  statistics and data sets that are available related to  oral health ƒ Identify oral health related web resources with data  sources and statistics for use at the local, state,  national and international levels

What are  health statistics? ƒ The most common statistics reported are: ‐vital (birth, death, marriage, divorce rates) ‐morbidity (incidence of oral cancer in a population) ‐mortality (the number of people who die of oral cancer  compared with the total number of people) ƒ Other common statistical data are health care costs and  demographic distribution of disease based on geographic,  ethnic, and gender variables For more information about health statistics, see MedlinePlus: Health Statistics

Oral Health Statistics and Data: National Level

ƒ CDC Division of Oral Health ƒ U.S. Department of health and Human  Services Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention National Center for Health Statistics‐ fast stats A to Z, Oral and Dental  Health

Oral Health Statistics and Data: State/Local Level ƒ Bexar County Health Collaborative 2006 Oral Health Assessment Data ƒ National Center for Chronic Disease  Prevention and Health Promotion: Behavioral  Risk Factors Surveillance System‐ Trends and  Data

General Health Statistics and Data: International Level ƒ World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

ƒ Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)‐Epidemiological Portal

General Health Statistics and Data: National Level

ƒ CDC‐ Data and Statistics ƒ CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease  Prevention and Health Promotion Behavioral  Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

General Health Statistics and Data: National Level ƒ

Division of Health Promotion Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistic’s DATA2010

An interactive database system that contains the most recent monitoring  data for tracking Healthy People 2010.

ƒ US Census Bureau‐ American Fact Finder ƒ United States Department of Health and Human Services

General Statistics and Data: State Level ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ

Cancer Registry CHARTing Health Information for Texas Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) Border County Health Workforce Profiles: Texas FedStats.gov Kaiser State Health Facts Texas Department of State Health Services Texas Research Links Texas Vital Statistics U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics‐ fast stats A to Z, Texas

To Learn More… ƒ Data Detective: Finding the Gems of Health Data Slide presentation from a course on public health data developed by the  University of Connecticut Health Center. ƒ

Finding and Using Health Stats A self‐study course developed by the National Library of Medicine.

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