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Bureau of Health Professions area resource file, 1940-1990 (United States).
- Title
- Bureau of Health Professions area resource file, 1940-1990 [electronic resource] : (United States).
- Publication
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994.
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- 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).
- Alternative Title
- ARF 1940-1990
- BHP area resource file, 1940-1990
- Subjects
- United States > Economic conditions > Statistics
- Economic indicators
- Medical care > United States > Statistics
- Population characteristics
- Medical education
- Demographic characteristics
- Medical personnel > United States > Statistics
- Health professions
- dataset > 1940-1990
- Medicare
- Health expenditures
- Health care facilities
- Health facilities > United States > Statistics
- Genre/Form
- dataset – 1940-1990.
- dataset.
- Note
- Codebook available in print and electronic format.
- Title from title screen (viewed on March 5, 2008).
- Access (note)
- Use of these data is restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.
- File Type (note)
- Extent of collection: 1 data file + machine-readable documentation (PDF).
- Event (note)
- Date(s) of collection: March 1991.
- Time period: 1940-1990.
- Coverage (note)
- Geographic coverage: United States.
- Cite As (note)
- 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.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Data format: LRECL.
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library