City-Level Health Indicators for 500 U.S. Cities

City-level data provides 27 health measure estimates for 500 U.S. cities. The data originates from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and was released in 2019 by the CDC Division of Population Health with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Use Cases

• Mapping geographic disparities in chronic disease prevalence using `DIABETES_CrudePrev` and `COPD_CrudePrev` columns.
• Analyzing correlations between behavioral risk factors like `CSMOKING_CrudePrev` and health outcomes such as `HIGHCHOL_CrudePrev`.
• Assessing preventive service utilization by comparing `MAMMOUSE_CrudePrev` and `COREM_CrudePrev` across different cities.
• Evaluating sleep health patterns at a city level using the `SLEEP` measure (implied from description) alongside other indicators.

Strengths

• Covers 500 U.S. cities for broad geographic analysis.
• Includes 27 distinct health measures with both crude and adjusted prevalence estimates.

Limitations

• Data is based on 2016 survey results, potentially stale for current analysis.
• Sample size and confidence intervals for each city estimate are not provided in the column list.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Population Health.

Collection Method

Estimates derived from the 2016 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Last platform update was 2023-08 -25, but underlying data is from 2016.

Geography

500 cities across the United States.