Research Guides: Health and Environment: ENST 4917: Find Data

Citing Data in APA Style

Data Cite Principles and Example
Data Cite's recommended dataset citation format and brief discussion of why it's important to cite data.
APA 7 Dataset Citation Example
Purdue OWL APA guide electronic source citation examples. Scroll down to Dataset.
Citing Datasets with Zotero
Zotero does not have a Dataset item type, but see these instructions for using the Document item type with a few customizations for datasets.

Find Environmental Health Data

CDC Data & Statistics
Links to the Center for Disease Control's many portals and affiliated sites by topic.
CDC PLACES
PLACES, a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation, provides model-based population-level analysis and community estimates to all counties, places (incorporated and census designated places), census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States.
CDC WONDER
Center for Disease Control WONDER system of online databases for querying public health data. See also: Temple Libraries' detailed instructions for doing CDC Wonder queries.
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
Dartmouth Atlas Project documents variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare and Medicaid data to provide information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

data.census.gov This link opens in a new window
data.census.gov provides data from the U.S. Census Bureau including the 2018 American Community Survey, 2017 Economic Census, 2020 Census and more. Has neighborhood-level demographic data for the U.S.

ESRI Business Analyst
Point-level data on alcohol stores, tobacco stores, other commercial locations for the U.S.; Neighborhood-level data on crime, demographics.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Policy Map is a web-based Geographic Information System that provides a simple mechanism for visualizing data. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates. Look in the Health and Quality of Life categories to map variables related to environmental health disparities.
PolicyMap is an online data and mapping application that provides access to over 10,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, income, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, and more. Data is available at many common geographic entities (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, metro area) as well as unique geographies such as school districts and political boundaries. Data is accessible in interactive maps, tables, charts, and reports and also may be downloaded.
Some PolicyMap datasets are from free government sources (including U.S. Census data), while other datasets are from proprietary sources, including detailed home sales statistics, school district performance from GreatSchools, locations of grocery stores and non-profit organizations, and Nielsen estimates and projections for demographic indicators.

SAMHSA Data
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services' data portal. See also their Public-use Data Analysis System (PDAS).

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