Hepatitis C Advanced Liver Disease Disparities Dashboard for U.S. Veterans

The Office of Health Equity (OHE) created this dashboard to raise awareness of potential disparities among vulnerable U.S. Veterans with Hepatitis C and advanced liver disease. It utilizes criteria like age, gender, geography, service era, and race/ethnicity to characterize Veteran groups who may require targeted intervention. The data was last updated on May 15, 2020, and is hosted on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data portal.

Use Cases

• Analyzing disparities in Hepatitis C-ALD prevalence across different VISNs using the `visn` and `count` columns.
• Profiling patient cohorts by demographic factors such as `age`, `gender`, and `race/ethnicity` (likely in `label` or `cohort` columns).
• Calculating the proportion of cases for specific demographic groups using the `percent` and `count` columns.
• Comparing facility-level (`facility`) case counts to identify high-burden locations for resource allocation.

Strengths

• Data is structured for disparity analysis with columns like `cohort`, `var`, and `label` to categorize groups.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2020-05-15 21:43:15; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (www.datahub.va.gov), Office of Health Equity (OHE).

Collection Method

Likely compiled from VHA (Veterans Health Administration) clinical and administrative records.

Freshness

Last updated 2020-05-15 21:43:15.

Geography

United States (Veterans Health Administration facilities).