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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 More Data links in the top menu for additional data not covered in these 24 topics. More info about NJSHAD Health Topic pages
Community Profiles
- Select a Community Type
  ● County
  See county-level data for 7 sets of health indicators
  ● Race/Ethnicity
  See data for each of the four largest racial/ethnic groups in NJ for 7 sets of health indicators
  ● Sex
  See data by sex for 6 sets of health indicators
  ● Disability Status
  See data by disability status for 3 sets of health indicators
  ● Educational Attainment Level
  See data for 4 levels of educational attainment for 3 sets of health indicators
  ● Poverty Status
  See data by poverty status for 2 sets of health indicators
- About Community Profiles
  Community Profiles allow users to select a New Jersey county or population group of interest and build a data profile for that community from NJSHAD indicator report data.
  
  Choose a Community Type on the left and then a specific county/population group and Set of Health Indicators on the next webpage. More info about Community Profiles 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 corresponding NJDOH program.
  ● Searchable, Sortable, Filterable Table
  Table of all indicator reports with titles, data sources, organization, view titles, and published date.
- Find Select Indicator Reports by
  ● Health Topic
  Indicator Reports are listed on the right side of every Health Topic page.
  ● Indicator Set
  Filterable list of select indicator report titles grouped by standardized indicator sets used in Community Profiles.
  ● Other standard groupings
  Health indicators grouped by cross-cutting initiative
- 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 about Indicator Reports
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, News, and UpdatesAbout NJSHAD Dataset QueriesQuery System Help and Dataset-Specific DocumentationQuick Guide to Demographic and Geographic Data Availability in Query Modules
Help, FAQs, More Data, etc.
- 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
  ● Federal and Other NJDOH 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
        ⚬   Demographic data
  Guide to data by race, ethnicity, age, and sex
        ⚬   Small area (sub-state) data
  County, municipality, and other sub-state data guide
        ⚬   Micro-level data
  How to request raw, record-level, or micro-level data files
- Help and Tutorials
  ● Help and FAQs
  Terminology, public health, statistics, how tos, presentations, FAQS, and more
        ⚬   NJSHAD Basics
  The basics of NJSHAD for new users
        ⚬   NJSHAD FAQs
  Frequnetly asked questions
        ⚬   Definitions: public health and statistics
  Terminology, public health, statistics
        ⚬   Dataset Query help
  How to use the NJSHAD query system
- Contact, etc.
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  Subscribe to NJSHAD Newsletter
  ● Contact NJSHAD
  Send us a message
  ● Suggested Web Citation
  How to properly cite NJSHAD
  ● About NJSHAD
  About NJSHAD, history, and acknowledgments

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Oral Health

child getting dental exam — Good oral health is an important part of good overall health.¹

1. Fast Facts: Oral Health. CDC. 5/28/24

Why It's Important

Good oral health improves a person's ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow, and make facial expressions to show feelings and emotions. However, oral diseases, from cavities to oral cancer, cause significant pain and disability.²

2. About Oral Health CDC. 5/28/24.

How It's Tracked

The New Jersey Department of Health tracks oral health through:

NJ Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (NJBRFS)
NJ State Cancer Registry (NJSCR)

Nationally, data are tracked through:

National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS), CDC
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC/NCHS
Water Fluoridation Reporting System, CDC and ASTDD

Other Data and Information Resources

New Jersey Department of Health

New Jersey Children's Oral Health Education Program

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Associated Indicator Reports
Health Indicator Reports provide more specific, detailed data and information that is related to this health topic. These reports include interactive thematic maps, charts, and data tables along with why this health indicator is important, what is being done, meta data and much more. Simply click on the links in the list below to view this information.
View the Introduction to Health Indicator Reports video for more information.

Associated Queryable Datasets
Queryable Datasets provides access to record level data. Who, what, when, and where as well as other data attribute values can be specified as filtering criteria. Options also exist that control how to display (group by) the data.
View the Introduction to Querying a Dataset video for more information.

Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (Adults)