Regional Health Care Assessment

Resources

The following comprise many of the sources used in this report:

• American Community Survey, 2008-2013
• Area Health Resource File (AHRF), http://ahrf.hrsa.gov/, generally through 2012
• CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance (BRFSS), http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/annual_data/annual_2013.html#datafiles or http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/smart/smart_2012.html ,  2012 or 2013
• BRFSS and National Diabetes Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health. BRFSS Prevalence & Trends Data: https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence/.
• County Health Rankings, http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
• Missouri Information for Community Assessment, http://health.mo.gov/data/mica/MICA/
• Kansas Information for Communities, http://kic.kdhe.state.ks.us/kic/
• EMSI,  http://www.economicmodeling.com/
• Quarterly Workforce Indicators, http://qwiexplorer.ces.census.gov/

Below is a list of websites that were of use in compiling this report:

• County Health Calculator - http://countyhealthcalculator.org/ - measures impact of education on health
• County Health Rankings, http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – County Profiles, https://www.healthdata.org/us-county-profiles, 2009 data
• Missouri Hospital Association-Preventable Hospitalizations, http://web.mhanet.com/uploads/media/MHA_AHRQ_Preventable_Hospitalizations_Kansas_City.pdf, through 2012
• The Dartmouth Atlas, http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/tools/downloads.aspx#
• Kansas Information for Communities (KIC), http://kic.kdheks.gov/Nwhospa_newdgns.php#top
• Missouri Information for Community Assessment (MICA),  https://webapp01.dhss.mo.gov/MOPHIMS/QueryBuilder?qbc=IHM&q=1&m=1
• CDC National Center for Health Statistics, http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html.
• CDC Oral Health Data (https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealthdata/)
• CMS Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW), www.ccwdata.org.

NOTE: The report focuses on two overlapping geographical areas: the REACH Healthcare Foundation's geographic service area, which includes Johnson, Wyandotte and Allen counties in Kansas and Jackson, Cass and Lafayette counties in Missouri, plus those portions of the city of Kansas City that are within Clay and Platte counties; and the MARC region, which includes Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray counties in Missouri.