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Description & Citation--Study No. 9075

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9075
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09075
 
Title:Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. Health Resources and Services Administration. Bureau of Health Professions
 
Bibliographic 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] [Computer file]. 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. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09075
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The 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).
 
Subject Term(s):demographic characteristics, economic indicators, health care facilities, health expenditures, health professions, medical education, Medicare, population characteristics
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1940 - 1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:March 1991
 
Data Type:aggregate data, and administrative records data
 

Methodology

Data Source:publications and health records
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1989-03-03
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States]
 

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