Metadata record for Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States]9075Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.2024-03-19Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States]907510.3886/ICPSR09075.v2United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources and Services Administration. Bureau of Health ProfessionsPlease see full citation.U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions. BUREAU OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS AREA RESOURCE FILE, 1940-1990: [United States]. 2nd ICPSR release. Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Data Analysis and Management [producer], 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09075.v2http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09075.v2demographic characteristicseconomic indicatorshealth care facilitieshealth expenditureshealth professionsmedical educationMedicarepopulation characteristicsICPSR IX. Health Care and Health FacilitiesNACDA VI. Health Care Needs, Utilization, and Financing for Older AdultsThe Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File is a county-based data file summarizing secondary data from a wide variety of sources into a single file to facilitate health analysis. The file contains over 6,000 data elements for all counties in the United States with the exception of Alaska, for which there is a state total, and certain independent cities that have been combined into their appropriate counties. The data elements include: (1) County descriptor codes (name, FIPS, HSA, PSRO, SMSA, SEA, BEA, city size, P/MSA, Census Contiguous County, shortage area designation, etc.), (2) Health professions data (number of professionals registered as M.D., D.O., DDS, R.N., L.P.N., veterinarian, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, and dental hygienist), (3) Health facility data (hospital size, type, utilization, staffing and services, and nursing home data), (4) Population data (size, composition, employment, housing, morbidity, natality, mortality by cause, by sex and race, and by age, and crime data), (5) Health Professions Training data (training programs, enrollments, and graduates by type), (6) Expenditure data (hospital expenditures, Medicare enrollments and reimbursements, and Medicare prevailing charge data), (7) Economic data (total, per capita, and median income, income distribution, and AFDC recipients), and (8) Environment data (land area, large animal population, elevation, latitude and longitude of population centroid, water hardness index, and climate data).194019901991-03Please see geographic coverage.United Statesadministrative records dataaggregate datapublications and health recordsAnn Arbor, Mi.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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