Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System: Death Certificate Module.

The Rhode Island HEALTH Web Data Query System (RI HEALTH WDQS) allows health professionals, community agenccies, Rhode Island Health Department personnel, and the general public to access Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and Death Certificate Data online. This resource can provide health professionals and community organizations with valuable information with which to improve the health of Rhode Islanders through data-driven programs and policies. The RI HEALTH WDQS is publicly accessible and requires no sign-in or registration. It contains ten years (19982007) of RI BRFSS data on over twenty topics, four years (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007) of RI YRBS data on over eleven topics and two years (2004 and 2005) of Death Certificate data on fifty two underlying causes of death. (Table 1). The BRFSS module has been described elsewhere and the YRBS module has very similar design and functionality. Here we describe the new addition of Death Certificate Data.