County and tract-level health outcomes, behaviors, and preventive services from CDC PLACES
Scored across 5 tools
Each tool serves a distinct purpose: comparing counties, retrieving county measures, getting a single measure across state, tract-level data, and searching measures. No overlap in functionality.
All tool names follow a consistent verb_noun pattern (compare, get, get, get, search). Two tools are parallel (get_county_measures, get_tract_measures), and the others are clear and predictable.
Five tools cover the essential operations for a focused health dataset: retrieval at county and tract levels, comparison, state-level query, and metadata search. The count is well-scoped.
The set covers main use cases, but lacks a tool to retrieve all measures for all counties in a state at once. Users must either call per county or per measure, which is a minor gap.
Compare specific CDC PLACES measures across multiple counties.
Returns a side-by-side comparison of selected health measures for the
given counties. Useful for benchmarking one county against peers.
Args:
fips_list: List of 5-digit county FIPS codes (e.g. ['53033', '53053', '06037']).
Maximum 10 counties per request.
measures: List of PLACES measure IDs to compare (e.g. ['DIABETES', 'OBESITY']).
Maximum 10 measures per request.
Inputs: measures (required), fips_list (required). Returns: result
Get all CDC PLACES health measures for a county.
Returns up to 36 measures including health outcomes (diabetes, obesity,
heart disease, etc.), health behaviors (smoking, binge drinking), preventive
services (checkups, screenings), and health status indicators.
Args:
county_fips: 5-digit county FIPS code (e.g. '53033' for King County, WA).
Must be a string, not an integer.
year: Optional release year to filter by. Omit for the most recent data.
Inputs: county_fips (required), year. Returns: result
Get one CDC PLACES measure for all counties in a state.
Useful for comparing a specific health metric (e.g. DIABETES, OBESITY)
across all counties within a state. Returns the most recent data year.
Args:
state_abbr: Two-letter state abbreviation (e.g. 'WA', 'CA').
measure_id: PLACES measure ID (e.g. 'DIABETES', 'OBESITY', 'BPHIGH').
Use search_measures to find valid IDs.
Inputs: measure_id (required), state_abbr (required). Returns: result
Get all CDC PLACES health measures for a census tract.
Returns tract-level estimates for health outcomes, behaviors, preventive
services, and health status indicators. Tract-level data uses small area
estimation and may have wider confidence intervals than county data.
Args:
tract_fips: 11-digit census tract FIPS code (e.g. '53033005300').
Must be a string, not an integer.
year: Optional release year to filter by. Omit for the most recent data.
Inputs: tract_fips (required), year. Returns: result
Search available CDC PLACES measures by name or category.
Returns matching measure IDs, names, and categories. Use this to find
the correct measure_id for other tools.
Categories: Health Outcomes, Health Behaviors, Prevention, Health Status.
Args:
keyword: Search term (e.g. 'diabetes', 'smoking', 'prevention', 'heart').
Inputs: keyword (required). Returns: result
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