This document provides resources for finding community health data and statistics, including the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, county health rankings, and Healthy People. It also provides guidance on using tables and figures from reports in a paper by mentioning them in the text, supplementing rather than recreating the information, and citing the source. An example image from the CDC on natality public use data is included.

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