Research Guides: Health Statistics: Getting Started

Getting Started

This guide provides links to national as well as international health data on health care, diseases, and statistical resources of interest to health professionals.

Best Places To Start:

AHRQ: State Snapshots
America's Health Ranking
CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
CDC: Health, US annual report on trends in health statistics.
CDC: National Center for Health Statistics
CDC Vaccines & Immunization: Statistics and Surveillance
CDC: Data and Statistics
CDC: Diseases and Conditions
CDC: Health Data Interactive
CDC: Information Networks and Other Information Sources
CDC: Injury Data and Resources
CDC: NCHS: Fastats
CDC: Public Health Genomics Data & Statistics
Gapminder World
Contains over 200 indicators displaying trends--in some cases back to the year 1800. The data in Gapminder World is constantly updated and refined.
It is freely accessible.
HCUP Statistical Briefs by topic
HealthyPeople.gov DATA2030 search
Human Mortality Database
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research
Kaiser Family Foundation: Individual State Profiles
National Alliance for Caregivers: Reports
National Cancer Institute: Glossary of Statistical Terms
OECD Health: Key Tables
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and provides informational statistics on its member nations and selected others.
Sage Data
Formerly Data-Planet. Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Data-Planet Statistical Datasets offers powerful capabilities to compare & contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations on the data, and customize output views.
U.S. Census Bureau: Data by Subject
U.S. Census Bureau: Disability
World Health Organization Global Health Observatory
The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is the World Health Organization's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database.

Relevant subject headings in PubMed

MEDLINE/PubMed
MeSH Terms relevant to statistics"

Biostatistics
"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)"
"National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)"
Statistics as Topic
Statistics, Nonparametric
Vital Statistics
"statistics and numerical data"[MeSH Subheading]
Incidence
Epidemiology
epidemiology [MeSH subheading]

Historical Statistics of the United States

USA.gov Data and Statistics

U.S. Data and Statistics | USAGov

Statistics Tutorials:

HealthData.gov
A federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
National Cancer Institute: Understanding Prognosis and Cancer Statistics
National Cancer Instituter: Glossary of Statistical Terms
NLM: Data, Where can I find Health Statistics?
NLM: Finding and Using Health Statistics
University of Chicago Library Health Statistics

General Directories of Statistical Resources

AHRQ: Data and Surveys
CDC: Data and Statistics
CDC: National Center for Health Statistics
Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources
State Health Facts Online
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Kaiser Family Foundation statistical resource contains state-level data on demographics, health and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.

Kids Count Data Center

Annie E. Casey Foundation: Kids Count Data Center

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram|Alpha - Health & Medicine
Wolfram|Alpha a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
Wolfram/Alpha - Medical Tests