Area Resource File, 2009-2010 Release

<p>The Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File is a county-based data file summarizing secondary data from a wide variety of sources. The file contains over 6,000 data elements for all counties, county equivalents, and certain independent cities in the United States. The data elements include: standard geographic indicators, health professions and human service professionals data (number of professionals registered as M.D., D.O., DDS, R.N., L.P.N., veterinarian, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, and dental hygienist), health facility data (hospital size, type, utilization, staffing and services, and nursing home data), 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), medical expenditure data (hospital expenditures, Medicare enrollments and reimbursements), economic data (total, per capita, and median income, income distribution, and AFDC recipients), and environment data (land and water area, elevation, population and housing unit density, farmland).</p>