Topic/focus: Demographics, Vital Events, Disease - Specific / Registry Year(s): Varies on data being examined Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services Study and sample characteristics: Summaries, surveys, vital records, health records Universe: Wisconsin residents Variables: n/a Access: Publically available Cost: Free Key web links: Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH) Primary Institutional Contact: EDRC Coordinator (tchelius@mcw.edu)
Summary: WISH gives you information about health indicators (measures of health) in Wisconsin. WISH allows policy makers, health professionals, and the public to submit questions (requests for data) and receive answers (tables) over the Internet. To construct answers to your questions, WISH uses protected databases containing Wisconsin data from a variety of sources. Most modules contain data for multiple years and geographic areas.