13 Big Cities Health Inventory
13.3 Description
- Open access data platform of 30 of the largest, most urban cities in the United States, allowing for comparability across jurisdictions.
- The platform contains over 100,000 data points and 100 metrics across 50 health, socio-economic, and demographic indicators across 11 categories.
- Provide descriptive data of how health outcomes, COVID-19 related outcomes, and especially inequities in these outcomes, are evolving in Big Cities Health Coalition member cities.
- Indicators encompass 9 broad categories of public health importance: Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse; Cancer; Chronic Disease; Environmental Health; Food Safety; HIV/AIDS; Infectious Disease; Injury and Violence; and Maternal and Child Health. Additional categories include demographics and life expectancy/overall death rate.
- CSV files can be downloaded of individual cities or the entire collection of 30 cities.
13.6 Collection Methodology
- Most of the data comes directly from cities. Data also obtained from U.S. Census or other similar publicly available data
- https://bigcitieshealthportal.blob.core.windows.net/data/2022-11-14-BCHI_Technical_Documentation.pdf
13.8 User Guide/Data Dictionary
https://bigcitieshealthportal.blob.core.windows.net/data/2022-11-14-BCHI_Technical_Documentation.pdf
13.12 Special Notes
- Data dashboard available at https://bigcitieshealthdata.org/
- Watch a webinar describing the big cities health data at https://www.bigcitieshealth.org/webinar-bchi-2022/
- Not all years for all cities are available in the platform, and more recent data are prioritized.
- The data is updated on a rolling basis, when new data is accessible it is added to the platform