Health Data

Alabama Community Health Resource Guide

The Alabama Community Health Resource Guide was developed to help grassroots organizations and health professionals identify local and regional health status issues, integrate issues of rural health care into economic development and community planning, assist communities with grant writing and provide baseline health data for evaluation of community programs.

This guide is divided into four sections:
1. Unique Alabama factors affecting the health care delivery system
2. Tips on presenting health data
3. Data report examples
4. Resources for finding health-related data

Alabama Community Health Resource Guide (12 MB)

County Health Profiles

The County Health Profiles (2021) publication displays the health profile of the state overall, and profiles for each of the state's 67 counties. Data for the state and each county are displayed on two pages. Various footnotes give explanatory details about the different kinds of rates and percentages presented in the tables. This publication and many other reports that are prepared by the Alabama Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics, are available at Health Statistics. That site also contains many charts, graphs and maps that are not included in individual publications as well as data for previous years.

Selected Health Status Indicators: Alabama's Caucasian and African American Populations

This report is developed to assist those seeking to improve health care and health status among Alabama's African American and White communities. Over 100 health-related indicators are included comparing Alabama's African American and Caucasian populations to each other and the national African American and Caucasian populations.

Rapid Review of Rural Health Research

The Rapid Review of Rural Health Research is for those working in rural public health who are interested in learning more about evidence, resources, and interventions that target the five leading causes of death in rural America (heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke). It lists over 100 articles that describe research on and interventions and resources for the five causes.

• Rapid Review of Rural Health Research (January 2018)

For questions on health data, please contact the Office of Primary Care and Rural Health by email or at (334) 206-5396.