Technical Notes on Public Health Data and Links to Older Data

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The Division of Public Health’s Health Surveillance Unit regularly collects and synthesizes health data to monitor health concerns. By North Carolina law, many infectious diseases must be reported to local health departments. Other statistics are collected in the form of vital registration data, such as birth and death certificates.

All county health departments provide these data routinely to the North Carolina State Center for Health Information and Statistics (NCSCHIS). The NCSCHIS “cleans” the data by assigning births, deaths, and incident disease cases to the county of residence. Collecting, cleaning and putting the data into a form that can be returned to all 100 counties creates a time lag between collection of data and the public release of data.

Previously published Data Briefs, Community Health Assessment (CHA) Reports, State of the County's Health (SOTCH) Reports and Special Reports below present data from past years. Clicking on each section heading will download that particular section in Adobe PDF format.