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National Center for Health Statistics The principal health statistics agency of the United States.

CDC Wonder (Centers for Disease Control) Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research.

 

More sources of statistics:

Globalhealthfacts.org  Searchable topics include HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases of global concern. Statistics from hundreds of countries are available in an easy to search and sort format. The database offers socioeconomic data such as countries' GDP per capita and health care expenditures per capita. Mortality rates, birth rates, population information, and other data are included.

Statehealthfacts.org   This is project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 450 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation website and KaiserNetwork.org.



Atlas of United States Mortality  Tracks leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas, or HSA's.

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)  Part of the Measure DHS project, this site disseminates "accurate, nationally representative data on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, as well as child survival, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition" for more than 75 developing countries.

Health Care State Rankings    Drexel Library Reference RA407.3 .H423    Provides numerical data as well as relative rankings for topics in the following categories: births, deaths, facilities, finance, incidence of disease, personnel, and physical fitness.

Health Profiles for Pennsylvania Counties  Compiled by State Health Data Center in Harrisburg.

Health: United States Drexel Library - for earlier print editions

National Vital Statistics Report
    National Center for Health Statistics monthly publication of birth, death, marriage, and divorce provisional statistics. Four to six supplements per year report final data for previous year as well as A supplement final data on births and another for deaths each year and special topic analyses.

Office of Minority Health   OMH was established in 1986 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It advises the Secretary and the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public health program activities affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders.

Statistical Abstract of the United States  The standard summary of the most important federal government statistics on the social, political, economic, and cultural organization of the United States.

Vital Statistics Report  Published by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

HEALTHmap: Global Disease Alert Mapping System   Launched in September 2006 by infectious disease researchers at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston. Need to know where avian flu, salmonella, or dengue fever have been popping up? A quick view of HEALTHmap shows you where more than 50 diseases have been reported around the world, who is reporting, and how "hot" an outbreak is, based on the number of reports. Users can drill down by content and city or narrow by disease and read what has been reported in the last 30 days.

Morbidity and mortality weekly report : MMWR   Find it @ SJU    Center for Disease Control publication that "contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also included are reports on topics of international interest and notices of events of interest to the public health community."

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)


 

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Euromonitor

Our Euromonitor subscription provides intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. Users can create custom statistical profiles of consumers and their households, and compare across countries. Statistics include causes of death, access to healthcare, smoking, obesity, and nutrition. The consumer lifestyle reports provide insight into how and why lifestyles differ from country to country including analysis of household profiles, income, education, eating and drinking habits, shopping habits, leisure and tourism. Health: causes of death, nutrition, smoking, obesity, access to health service. Each country's consumer lifestyle report includes a chapter on health and health care provision.

 


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