Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File, 1940-1990: [United States]

The Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File is a
county-based data file summarizing secondary data from a wide variety
of sources into a single file to facilitate health analysis. The file
contains over 6,000 data elements for all counties in the United States
with the exception of Alaska, for which there is a state total, and
certain independent cities that have been combined into their
appropriate counties. The data elements include: (1) County descriptor
codes (name, FIPS, HSA, PSRO, SMSA, SEA, BEA, city size, P/MSA, Census
Contiguous County, shortage area designation, etc.), (2) Health
professions data (number of professionals registered as M.D., D.O.,
DDS, R.N., L.P.N., veterinarian, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist,
and dental hygienist), (3) Health facility data (hospital size, type,
utilization, staffing and services, and nursing home data), (4)
Population data (size, composition, employment, housing, morbidity,
natality, mortality by cause, by sex and race, and by age, and crime
data), (5) Health Professions Training data (training programs,
enrollments, and graduates by type), (6) Expenditure data (hospital
expenditures, Medicare enrollments and reimbursements, and Medicare
prevailing charge data), (7) Economic data (total, per capita, and
median income, income distribution, and AFDC recipients), and (8)
Environment data (land area, large animal population, elevation,
latitude and longitude of population centroid, water hardness index,
and climate data).