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General Disclaimer	Software Sources
Trading Partner Agreement
Data Resources - Demographics
Data Resources - Environmental
Data Resources - Geographic
Data Resources - Health


General Disclaimer

The data and software listed below are all publicly available from their respective websites. Neither the State of Oregon, nor any of their employees, MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OR ASSUMES ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION, APPARATUS, PRODUCT, SOFTWARE, OR PROCESS presented in those websites. References to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the State of Oregon. If there are data sources or software that are freely available and from a reputable source that are missing, or may be of interest for this website, please email us with the link to the data or software at: epht.ohd@state.or.us


Trading Partner Agreement

The purpose of a Data Sharing or Trading Partner Agreement (TPA) is to document and formalize the processes for managing the flow of information between programs or agencies. In EPHT, TPAs are used to clarify the arrangements between the EPHT Program and the provider of the data that will be placed on the EPHT Network. The first page of the agreement provides background about EPHT and the purpose of a TPA. The body of the agreement is an electronic fill-in or printable form that covers participants, purpose, description, access, and limitations of use of the particular dataset as well as contract administration, authorized users, relevant attachments, and signatures of parties with the authority to enter into the agreement. This TPA template is provided as an example that can be modified for use by other programs that do not have data sharing agreement forms or are in the process of developing a new one. Click here to download the TPA template (doc)


Data Resources - Demographics

National U.S. Census 1990 and 2000 American Factfinder American Housing Survey America's Children: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 Oregon Oregon Population Research Center Oregon Population Survey Oregon Explorer


Data Resources - Environmental

National U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality Data U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality Index U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EnviroFacts One-Stop for Environmental Information U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Toxic Release Inventory Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Data U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Data America's Children: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 Oregon Oregon Climate Services Oregon Department of Environmental Quality Databases, GIS and Mapping Applications Lead Poisoning Prevention Program Oregon Drinking Water Program Oregon Explorer Regional Air Indicator Report for Public Access and Community Tracking Pacific Northwest Air Quality Forecasting AgriMet – The Pacific Northwest Cooperative Agricultural Network BlueSkyRains Pacific Northwest Smoke Forecasting Pacific Northwest Water Quality Data Exchange U.S. Department of Agriculture Pacific Northwest Soil Survey EPA Region 10 Map-based access to water quality and Superfund data U.S. Department of Reclamations Pacific Northwest Automatic Hydrological and Meteorological Monitoring Stations


Data Resources - Geographic

County Benton County Jackson County Josephine County National Geo Community (Some Free Data) NASA Satellite Data U.S. Census Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system Data U.S. Environmental Protection Agency GIS Data for Oregon U.S. Department of Agriculture Geospatial Data Gateway U.S. Geological Survey United States and International Seamless Data Download System U.S. Maps & Data Oregon Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office GIS Data Oregon Explorer


Data Resources - Health

National Centers for Disease Control Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Centers for Disease Control CDC Wonder Public Health Data Centers for Disease Control National Centers for Health Statistics Centers for Disease Control National Cancer Statistics National Survey of Children’s Health Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care AHRQ: Heathcare Cost and Utilization Data America's Children: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 2009 Oregon Oregon Center for Health Statistics


Software Sources

ArcExplorer^TM is a free GIS data viewer developed by ESRI® and offers an easy way to perform a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications. It can be used on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers. CAMEO® is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. There are three software products, a mapping application called MARPLOT, an atmospheric dispersion model used for evaluating releases of hazardous chemical vapors called ALOHA, and a database of over 6,000 hazardous chemicals, 80,000 synonyms, and product trade names called CAMEO. CrimeStat® is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations. The program is Windows-based and interfaces with most desktop GIS programs. The purpose is to provide supplemental statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. These statistical tests may be applicable to environmental public health analysis. Environmental Protection Agency website providing links to a number of public domain software packages that conduct ground-water and vadose zone modeling. Epi Info^TM allows an epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals to rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, and enter and analyze data. Epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps can be produced. Epi Map displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info™. GeoVISTA Studio is an open software development environment designed for geospatial data. Studio allows users to quickly build applications for geocomputation and geographic visualization, with no programming required. HealthySEAT is the Evironmental Protection Agency Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool, a new software assessment tool for use in evaluating the school environment. The tool will allow school administrators to assess mold, asbestos, lead paint and other issues and manage the information in a database format. Link Plus is a probabilistic record linkage program developed at CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control in support of the CDC's National Program of Cancer Registries (NCPR). Link Plus was written as a linkage tool for cancer registries. It is an easy-to-use, stand-alone, Microsoft Windows-based application that can be run in two modes: to detect duplicates in a cancer registry database, or to link a cancer registry file with external files. No barriers exist that prevent using the program with data other than cancer registry data. MapInfo® ProViewerTM is a lightweight GIS viewer that allows you to share MapInfo Professional® maps and analyses with clients and co-workers. SaTScan™ software analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics. It is designed for performing geographical surveillance of disease, detecting spatial or space-time disease clusters, testing whether a disease is randomly distributed, and performing repeated time-periodic disease surveillance for the early detection of disease outbreaks.

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