Considerable health data about Johnson County is available from the Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services (MO DHSS). The following URLs will help you study public health related information about Johnson County:

Community Data Profiles
Community data profiles are available on various subject areas such as cause of death, chronic diseases, unintentional injuries, prenatal and others. Each community data profile table provides data on 15-30 indicators for each county/city selected. Information provided includes the number of events, county/city rate, statistical significance, quintile ranking and the state rate.

By clicking on an indicator in the table, you can access resource pages that provide a definition of the indicator, risk factors, condition description, intervention strategies, state and community resources and programs, published reports and other related web sites.

MICA - Missouri Information for Community Assessments
MICA is a MO DHSS data-mining tool that lets you write your own queries and get an online answer on many sets of data. The link above gives an overview of all MICA data sets with potential local data.

Missouri Census Data Center
The MO Census Data Center provides a wide range of general statistical indicators for Missouri.

OSEDA - Missouri Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis
OSEDA has the "uexplore" data mining tool for drilling into their data archives. They offer an online training course in using their data mining tool, called We Explore. OSEDA is sponsored by Missouri University Outreach and Extension Services.

Kids Count in Missouri - Data Book Profile for Missouri
Website shows the most recent "Kids Count in Missouri" Data Year Book. In it: Missouri and County profiles, key facts, outcome measures, infant mortality, low birthweight, child abuse, County rankings, a silo full of child health data, ready for sharing. Links to previous Kids Count reports in Missouri and to national Kids Count reports. Visit the Citizens for Missouri's Children website, which sponsors it.

 
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