Area Health Resources File
Alternate Titles(s): AHRF, Area Resource File, ARF
UID: 10001
- Description
- The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) provides current as well as historic data for more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties, as well as state and national data. It contains information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition, the basic file contains geographic codes and descriptors which enable it to be linked to many other files and to aggregate counties into various geographic groupings.
- Publisher
- Timeframe
- 2000 - Present
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
Access
- Restrictions
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Free to All
- Instructions
- Data is available at the county level as well as the state and national level. Data is available in ASCII and SAS, and detailed technical documentation and data dictionaries are available for download in Word and Excel.
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