Data

50-State Policies Database
This site contains information about state and federal policies that assist children from families with low incomes. Data include eligibility criteria, benefit levels, and spending and recipient figures. The data wizard creates custom tables with information about state and federal policies that assist children and families with low incomes.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Maps
This site provides data for states and selected metropolitan/micropolitan statistical areas. BRFSS Maps show three of the eight indicators included in the National Oral Health Surveillance System: annual dental visits, annual tooth cleaning, and tooth loss in adults.

Child Trends DataBank
This site provides research on key indicators—including unmet oral health needs—of child and adolescent well-being. The databank provides information on how unmet oral health needs affect child and adolescent well-being; trends in unmet oral health needs among children and adolescents ages 2–17; and differences in unmet oral health needs among children and adolescents by race and ethnicity, health insurance coverage, poverty status, and age. International estimates, national goals, definitions, and data sources are also provided.

DATA2010
This site contains monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010 objectives. Spreadsheet files include leading health indicators, selected mortality objectives, selected natality objectives, and health status indicators. To obtain oral health data, click on the field, Data by Focus Area (Including Leading Health Indicators). Under the field, Select a Focus Area, choose 21-Oral Health from the pop-up menu. Next, click on the button, Include Related Objectives from Other Focus Areas in the Table. Click on the Submit button, or use the other fields to narrow your search.

Data Resource Center (DRC) for Child and Adolescent Health
This site provides standardized indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. These indicators can be searched by age, race and ethnicity, income, and health status of children and adolescents by state.

Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Data Resource Center
This site provides the updated Catalog of Surveys and Archive of Procedures Related to Oral Health, an annual report summarizing the oral health of the U.S. population, a data-query system to use in generating statistical analyses of selected oral health data, copies of public use research materials, and oral health questions used in national surveys.

HP2010 Information Access Project
This site allows users to browse Medline citations of published literature containing information and evidence-based strategies related to Healthy People 2010 oral health objectives.

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Topics: Dental
This site provides detailed information on dental events, including source of payment(s), total payment and total charge, type of provider seen, and procedure(s) associated with each dental event. Visitors can view data tables, use analytic tools, or browse publications.

My Water's Fluoride
This site provides information about local water systems, including the target fluoridation rate and the number of people served.

National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS)
This site allows users to view tables, graphs, and maps of oral health indicators by state. Oral health indicators include dental visits, teeth cleaning, complete tooth loss, fluoridation status, caries experience, untreated caries, dental sealants, and cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx.

Oral Health Maps
This site provides national and state maps that show indicators for water fluoridation, dental sealants, untreated tooth decay, and caries experience.

State Health Workforce Profiles
This site provides data on supply, demand, distribution, education, and use of health professionals. Estimated numbers of workers indicate the size of the state's health work force. Per capita ratios facilitate comparisons with other states and the nation.

Synopses of State and Territorial Dental Public Health Programs
The site provides state- and territory-specific information including (1) support for an oral health program; (2) percentage of people on public water systems receiving fluoridated water; (3) support for a dental director; and (4) trends in demographics, infrastructure, work force, administration, budget, and programs. Information is available in list or map formats.

Title V Information System (Title V IS)
This site was developed to electronically capture, analyze, and disseminate data from annual State MCH Services Title V Block Grant applications and reports. The Title V Information System offers tailored information including performance and outcome measures, descriptive statistics, financial data, and states' priority needs.

Water Fluoridation Reporting System (WFRS)
This site is a monitoring tool for state and tribal water fluoridation program managers and oral health program directors or managers. Accessing this system requires special authorization. The Water Fluoridation Reporting System is the data source for the annual fluoridation information in NOHSS.