nys_hs.csv: State and region level heat stress hospitalizations and ED visits.

Hospitalization and ED data was provided by the Office of Quality and Patient Safety, Division of Information and 
Statistics, Bureau of Health Informatics, New York State Department of Health.
For more information about hospitalization and ED visit data please visit 
http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/sparcs/

Data fields (in order of which they appear):

VARIABLE	DESCRIPTION
---------   	-----------
Indicator	ED Visits or Hospitalizations


County		New York State   New York City  New York State excluding NYC


YEAR		Year of admission to hospital


Subgroup1	Month  Place AgeGroup


Subgroup_cat1	Month
		05 through 09 indicate May to September 

		Place
		H: Home, a non-institutional, private home/apartment or private yard 
		W: Work, a workplace not typically open to the public 
		S: Sport, a public park or public or private place of amusement 
		P: Public, a public building or institutional home 
		O: Other 
		U: Unknown 

		Agegroup
		0-19
		20-49
		50-74
		75+


Subgroup2	Agegroup  Total


Subgroup_cat2	Agegroup
		0-19
		20-49
		50-74
		75+


aaRate100K	Age-Adjusted rate per 100,000 persons 


count		Number of ED Visits or Hospitalizations 


cRate100K 	Crude Rate per 100,000 persons


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State population:
Annual State Population Estimates by Demographic Characteristics is 
available at the Unites States Census Bureau website
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html

County population:
Annual County Resident Population Estimates by Year, Age, Sex, Race 
and Hispanic Origin is available at the Unites States Census Bureau 
website
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html