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Health Topics
- About Health Topics
  This section organizes NJSHAD website content into public health topic categories.
  
  Each icon links to a page that contains information for that topic, along with links to associated Health Indicator Reports and Dataset Queries in NJSHAD.
  
  Use the Search box above or browse the Health Indicators, Dataset Queries, and Resources links in the top menu for additional data not covered in these 24 topics.
Community Profiles
- Select a Community Type
  ● County
  ● Race/Ethnicity
  ● Sex
  ● Disability Status
  ● Educational Attainment Level
  ● Poverty Status
- About Community Profiles
  Community Profiles allow users to select a New Jersey county or population group of interest and build a report for that community from NJSHAD indicator report data. More info and related links
Indicator Reports
- Find Any Indicator Report by
  ● Alphabetical List
  Filterable list of all indicator reports sorted alphabetically by title.
  ● Data Source
  Filterable list of all indicator report titles grouped by data sources.
  ● Health Department Program
  Filterable list of all indicator report titles grouped by program/owning organization.
  ● Searchable, Sortable, Filterable Table
  Table of all indicator reports with titles, data sources, organization, view titles, and published date.
- Find Select Indicator Reports by
  ● Indicator Set
  Filterable list of all indicator report titles grouped by standardized indicator sets.
  ● Other standard groupings
  Health indicators grouped by cross-cutting initiative or data source
- About Health Indicator Reports
  A health indicator is a numeric measure of the public health status of a population.
  
  Indicator reports are brief reports, similar to a fact sheet or data brief, that provide graphs, maps, data tables, and explanatory information for a specific public health issue, such as why it's important, what the current status is, and what is being done to improve it. More info
Dataset Queries
- Vital Statistics
  ● Births
  Birth certificate data (teen births, low birth weight, preterm births, etc.)
  ● Deaths:2000-2021
  Death certificate data for all ages
  ● Deaths:2022-2024
  Death certificate data for all ages
  ● Infant and Fetal Deaths
  Infant death (under 1 year of age) and fetal death (stillbirth) certificate data
  ● Life Expectancy
  Average expected number of years of life remaining from a given age
- Health Surveys
  ● Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS)
  Survey data of behavioral rsk factors and chronic conditions associated with disability and death
  ● Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring (PRAMS)
  Survey data of risk factors associated with pregnancy and infant health
- Morbidity
  ● Communicable Disease Incidence
  Reportable communicable diseases
  ● HIV Cases and Deaths
  HIV incidence, prevalence, and mortality
  ● Hospitalizations (Inpatient and ED)
  Emergency department and inpatient discharges
  ● Sexually Transmitted Disease Incidence
  Reported STD data
- Cancer Incidence on NJSCR Website
  Cancer incidence
- About Dataset Queries
  Dataset Queries allow users to create customized data tables and graphs of publicly available, deidentified numerical public health datasets through the use of user-defined filtering criteria to control what data are retrieved. Introduction About Queries Query System and Dataset-Specific Help Demographic and Geographic Data Availability in Query Modules
Resources
- Additional Data
  ● COVID-19
  Links to COVID-19 data
  ● Marriage, Civil Union, and Domestic Partnership
  Marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, and divorce data
  ● Vital Events Counts and Rates, 1900-2020
  Long-term data trends for births, deaths, infant deaths, fetal deaths, and marriages
  ● Other Data Access and Analysis Tools
  Federal and other query systems and data access tools
- Other Resources
  ● How to find more data
  Additional resources for obtaining NJ data
        ⚬   NJDOH office links
  Links to NJDOH offices that produce data
        ⚬   Other NJ data sources
  Links to NJ public health and related data not in NJDOH
        ⚬   Small area data
  County, municipality, and other sub-state data guide
        ⚬   Demographic data
  Guide to data by race, ethnicity, age, and sex
        ⚬   Micro-level data
  How to request raw, record-level, or micro-level data files
- Help and Tutorials
  ● About NJSHAD
  About NJSHAD, history, and acknowledgments
  ● Web Citation
  How to properly cite NJSHAD
  ● Help and FAQs
  Terminology, public health, statistics, how tos, presentations, FAQS, and more
- Contact
  ● Subscribe
  Subscribe to NJSHAD Newsletter
  ● Contact Us
  Send us a message

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What's New in NJSHAD Version 3

On June 11, 2024, we released the current version of NJSHAD, adapted from NM-IBIS version 3. While countless changes were made on the back-end, here's what's new for you, the end user.

Updated "look and feel" throughout the site
Single menu across the top for ease of navigation
Social media, email, and print share buttons on every page
Lots of new pop-up help text

Community Profiles

New communities added for disability status, educational attainment level, poverty status, and sex
Change communities or indicator sets right on the profile page. No more separate selection page.
Indicator definitions moved to info pop-ups to unclutter the profiles
Sortable columns

Indicator Reports

New views added to many reports
Eight new reports added
More ways to search reports: by data view, data source, DOH program, or publication date
Fully sortable and filterable report index
Export to Excel button for data tables
Navigation links across the top of each report
Link to associated Health Topic page(s)
Summary Report view of all graphs together
Graphs and maps are included in Complete Report view

Dataset Queries

Measure description included in query criteria on result page
Navigation links across the top of each result page
A handy list of which demographic and geographic data are available in each query dataset

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