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CDC WONDER (ICPSR 128)
Released/updated on: 2006-03-08
Geographic coverage: United States
CDC WONDER is the online public information health system created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. With it, one can search for and retrieve MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) articles and Prevention Guidelines published by the CDC, as well as query dozens of numeric datasets on CDC's mainframe and other computers via "fill-in-the blank" request screens. Public-use datasets about mortality, cancer incidence, hospital discharges, AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, and many other topics are available for query, and the requested data can be readily summarized and analyzed.
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National Pregnancy and Health Survey: Drug Use Among Women Delivering Live Births, 1992 (ICPSR 2835)
Released/updated on: 2008-07-31
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1992-01-01--1993-01-01
The primary objective of the National Pregnancy and Health Survey (NPHS) was to produce national annual estimates of the percentages and numbers of mothers of live newborns in the United States who used selected licit and illicit drugs in the 12 months prior to delivery. A further objective was to describe patterns of prenatal substance use among demographic subgroups of women. Information on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, obstetric history, and drug treatment of women who delivered infants at sampled hospitals was obtained through an interviewer-administered questionnaire, while data on substance use before and during pregnancy were collected through a questionnaire completed by the respondent and concealed from the interviewer. Respondents were asked about use of the following substances: alcohol, amphetamines, analgesics, cocaine, crack cocaine, barbiturates, hallucinogens, hashish, heroin, marijuana, methadone, methamphetamine, sedatives, stimulants, tobacco, and tranquilizers. Additionally, information was collected on the respondent's pregnancy, prenatal care, delivery, previous pregnancies, and background. Additional data were obtained from the mothers' and infants' medical records. Urine specimens collected routinely by the hospital on obstetric admissions were tested for selected drugs. Finally, in a subsample of six hospitals, hair specimens were requested from respondents to evaluate the potential of hair as a source of toxicological data in future studies.
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Policy Research on Aging and Mental Health Services (PRAMHS) Project (ICPSR 9043)
Released/updated on: 2008-11-18
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1979-01-01--1980-01-01
This study consists of four parts. Part 1 is the result of
a nationwide mail survey of Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC).
Questions centered on the delivery of mental health services to the
elderly, and cover topics such as the number of elderly people in the
client load, amount of interaction between CMHC and Area Agencies on
Aging (AAA), factors affecting the delivery of services to the
elderly, and specialized services for the elderly. In addition to data
from the PRAMHS questionnaire, data from the 1976 National Institute
of Mental Health CMHC inventory were merged with the corresponding
agencies. Part 2 contains data from a mail survey of Area Agencies on
Aging. Data include percentage of referrals made by agencies to mental
health programs as compared to other types of programs, priority given
to mental health issues, factors influencing delivery and coordination
of mental health services to the elderly, and amount of communication
between AAA and agencies in its service area serving the mental health
needs of the elderly. Part 3 consists of data collected by the PRAMHS
project State Unit on Aging (SUA) mail survey. Information is included
on interaction with State Mental Health Agencies, priority given to
mental health issues, efforts by the elderly to influence policy
decisions, and factors influencing delivery and coordination of mental
health services to the elderly. Part 4 contains the result of the
PRAMHS State Mental Health Agencies mail survey. Data provide
information concerning interaction with SUA, efforts to decrease the
number of elderly in state mental health institutions, efforts by the
elderly to influence policy decisions, and factors influencing
delivery and coordination of mental health services to the elderly.
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United States Hospital AIDS/HIV and Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care Survey, 1988, 1989, AND 1991 (ICPSR 6455)
Released/updated on: 2006-01-12
Geographic coverage: United States
The purpose of this study was to obtain information on hospital-based treatment of persons with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and other Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-related illnesses. Aggregate data were obtained from each surveyed hospital, with the hospital as the unit of observation. Topics covered included patient demographics, service volume and structure, sources of payment, and types of services and treatments rendered. Information was also solicited on inpatient and outpatient AIDS/HIV hospital utilization, patient discharge disposition and likely mode of exposure, hospital community AIDS/HIV education programs, and policies for the treatment of AIDS/HIV patients, for employees with AIDS/HIV, and for the confidentiality of AIDS/HIV patients. Additionally, hospital administrators were queried about monitoring and tracking of outpatient services and the existence of special hospital-operated AIDS/HIV outpatient clinics. Financial characteristics covered included net revenues, costs, and charges for inpatient and outpatient AIDS/HIV services, payer source, and methods used to determine costs. In 1989 and 1991, separate data were obtained for pediatric AIDS/HIV patients.