PLACES, a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation, allows local health departments and jurisdictions regardless of population size and urban-rural status to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health-related outcomes in their areas and assist them in planning public health interventions.

cdc_places()

Source

https://www.cdc.gov/places/

Details

PLACES provides model-based population-level analysis and community estimates to all counties, places (incorporated and census designated places), census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States.

PLACES is an extension of the original 500 Cities Project that provided city and census tract estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive services use for the 500 largest US cities.

They were accessed on September 25, 2021.

Download

- https://github.com/seandavi/UCCCReporter/raw/main/inst/extdata/PLACES__Local_Data_for_Better_Health__ZCTA_Data_2020_release.csv.gz

Geographic level

  • zipcode

See also

Examples

places <- cdc_places() head(places)
#> Year LocationName DataSource Category #> 1: 2018 1008 BRFSS Unhealthy Behaviors #> 2: 2018 1034 BRFSS Health Outcomes #> 3: 2018 1035 BRFSS Unhealthy Behaviors #> 4: 2018 1069 BRFSS Health Outcomes #> 5: 2018 1070 BRFSS Prevention #> 6: 2018 1094 BRFSS Unhealthy Behaviors #> Measure Data_Value_Unit #> 1: Obesity among adults aged >=18 years % #> 2: Stroke among adults aged >=18 years % #> 3: Current smoking among adults aged >=18 years % #> 4: Diagnosed diabetes among adults aged >=18 years % #> 5: Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years % #> 6: Binge drinking among adults aged >=18 years % #> Data_Value_Type Data_Value Data_Value_Footnote_Symbol Data_Value_Footnote #> 1: Crude prevalence 29.8 #> 2: Crude prevalence 3.1 #> 3: Crude prevalence 13.6 #> 4: Crude prevalence 8.6 #> 5: Crude prevalence 81.8 #> 6: Crude prevalence 17.7 #> Low_Confidence_Limit High_Confidence_Limit TotalPopulation #> 1: 28.4 31.1 1263 #> 2: 2.7 3.5 2021 #> 3: 11.0 16.2 5250 #> 4: 8.0 9.1 8469 #> 5: 77.8 85.2 629 #> 6: 16.9 18.4 351 #> Geolocation LocationID CategoryID MeasureId #> 1: POINT (-72.95202996 42.18429555) 1008 UNHBEH OBESITY #> 2: POINT (-73.014384 42.08994721) 1034 HLTHOUT STROKE #> 3: POINT (-72.56921312 42.35560086) 1035 UNHBEH CSMOKING #> 4: POINT (-72.305378 42.1881815) 1069 HLTHOUT DIABETES #> 5: POINT (-72.92387449 42.51846792) 1070 PREVENT MAMMOUSE #> 6: POINT (-72.1410545 42.35277567) 1094 UNHBEH BINGE #> DataValueTypeID Short_Question_Text #> 1: CrdPrv Obesity #> 2: CrdPrv Stroke #> 3: CrdPrv Current Smoking #> 4: CrdPrv Diabetes #> 5: CrdPrv Mammography #> 6: CrdPrv Binge Drinking
# All available measures: unique(places$Measure)
#> [1] "Obesity among adults aged >=18 years" #> [2] "Stroke among adults aged >=18 years" #> [3] "Current smoking among adults aged >=18 years" #> [4] "Diagnosed diabetes among adults aged >=18 years" #> [5] "Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years" #> [6] "Binge drinking among adults aged >=18 years" #> [7] "Arthritis among adults aged >=18 years" #> [8] "Chronic kidney disease among adults aged >=18 years" #> [9] "Current asthma among adults aged >=18 years" #> [10] "Cancer (excluding skin cancer) among adults aged >=18 years" #> [11] "Cholesterol screening among adults aged >=18 years" #> [12] "All teeth lost among adults aged >=65 years" #> [13] "Visits to doctor for routine checkup within the past year among adults aged >=18 years" #> [14] "High blood pressure among adults aged >=18 years" #> [15] "Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years" #> [16] "Visits to dentist or dental clinic among adults aged >=18 years" #> [17] "Physical health not good for >=14 days among adults aged >=18 years" #> [18] "No leisure-time physical activity among adults aged >=18 years" #> [19] "Coronary heart disease among adults aged >=18 years" #> [20] "Sleeping less than 7 hours among adults aged >=18 years" #> [21] "Cervical cancer screening among adult women aged 21-65 years" #> [22] "Mental health not good for >=14 days among adults aged >=18 years" #> [23] "Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults aged >=18 years" #> [24] "High cholesterol among adults aged >=18 years who have been screened in the past 5 years" #> [25] "Taking medicine for high blood pressure control among adults aged >=18 years with high blood pressure" #> [26] "Fecal occult blood test, sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy among adults aged 50-75 years" #> [27] "Older adult men aged >=65 years who are up to date on a core set of clinical preventive services: Flu shot past year, PPV shot ever, Colorectal cancer screening" #> [28] "Older adult women aged >=65 years who are up to date on a core set of clinical preventive services: Flu shot past year, PPV shot ever, Colorectal cancer screening, and Mammogram past 2 years"