Toolkit for Dental Health Professionals

Evidence-Based Dental Public Health

Data Tools and Statistics

Patient Information

Oral Health Information Tutorial for Dental Public Health Professionals

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 Develop a basic understanding of the types of

statistics and data sets that are available related to oral health

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? 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)

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

CDC Division of Oral Health

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

Bexar County Health Collaborative2006 Oral Health Assessment Data

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System- Trends and Data

General Health Statistics and Data: International Level

World Health Organization (WHO) Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)-Epidemiological Portal

General Health Statistics and Data: National Level

CDC- Data and Statistics

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

General Health Statistics and Data: National Level

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.

US Census Bureau- American Fact Finder

United States Department of Health and Human Services

General Statistics and Data: State Level 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… 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.

Finding and Using Health StatsA self-study course developed by the National Library of Medicine.