Search Strategies

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Search Strategies

• Outcomes from the Different Starting Points Lab
  Exercise

2
What did you find?

• What level of service would you provide this
  patron?
• Of what you found, what would you give to your
  patron?

3
Classification

• http//delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08
• Helpful knowing the ICD10 code, which provides an
  international, standardized category using in the
  classification of diseases
• Of the basic table elements (geography, time,
  subject content), this provides a key to subject
  content

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Statistics

• http//delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08
• Blog review Going Down Death Rates Due to
  Extreme Weather Events
• Article Deaths from heat-stroke in Japan
  1968-1994. Int J Biometeorol. 1999 - PubMed
  Result
• Official statistics NOAA, CDC NCHS
• National Statistics Online - Product - Health
  Statistics Quarterly

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Aggregate Data

• http//delicious.com/chuckhumphrey/ICPSR08
• CDC Compressed Mortality, 1999-2005 Request
• Download table in Excel using time as the unit of
  observation and convert to an aggregate data file
• EMDAT - The International Emergency Disasters
  Database
• Have to request permission for aggregate data at
  the city level over time

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Microdata

• CDC Mortality for the U.S.