Introduction to finding, using, and citing data for Community Health Nursing

1. Kaeli Vandertulip
For Community Health Nursing

2.  Best Bets
 CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/
 National Center for Health Statistics: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
 DSHS Center for Health Statistics: https://www.dshs.texas.gov/chs/
 Healthy People: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/
 CMS Data: https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/research-statistics-
data-and-systems.html
 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/

3.  Google!
 Smaller studies (CINAHL, PubMed)
 Bibliographies (Try to find the original data set, not someone else’s report on it)

4. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_03.pdf

5.  Table
 Figure (Graph)

6. Table
 Text and numbers
 Charts
 Labeled column heads
Figure
 Graphs
 Charts
 Maps
 Drawings
 Photographs

7.  Covered in APA Manual, Ch. 5
 All figures/tables MUST be mentioned in your text
 Supplement of text, not recreation of it
 (See Table X for…)
 (Description, see Figure X)
 Figure X shows…

8.  Image source:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/prev
iew/mmwrhtml/mm5728a1.htm

9. References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(2016, February). Natality public-use data
2007-2014. Retrieved from
http://wonder.cdc.gov/natality-
current.html

10. References
Keyes, K. M., Susser, E., Cheslack-Postava, K.,
Fountain, C., Liu, K., & Bearman, P. S.
(2012). Cohort effects explain the increase in
autism diagnosis among children born from
1992 to 2003 in California. International
Journal of Epidemiology, 41(2), 495-503. doi:
10.1093/ije/dyr193