Health & Medical - Statistics

  1. Bureau of Labor Statistics
    http://www.bls.gov/
    Provides statistics on workplace injury & illnesses, fatalities broken down by demographics and injuries.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data & Statistics
    http://www.cdc.gov/
    Provides access to CDC data and reports on births, death & marriages, growth charts, national and state data, survey & data collection & trends in health and aging. CDC Wonder provides searching of over 45 document and statistics databases of public health information.
  1. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp
    US Department of Health and Human Services, provides information on Medicaid and Medicare programs, including statistics.
  1. FedStats
    http://www.fedstats.gov/
    Gateway to statistics to over 100 federal agencies. Search by agency, programs, regional statistics, etc.
  • Healthcare Cost Utilization Project (HCUP)
    http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/home.jsp
    Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization project (HCUP). HCUP databases contain all-listed diagnoses and procedures, discharge status, patient demographics, and charges for all patients, regardless of payer (e.g., persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured). State comparisons and analyses included
  1. MedlinePlus: Health Statistics
    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthstatistics.html
    U.S. National Institute of Health, National Health Library consumer health information site.
  • National Center for Health Statistics
    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm
    NCHS is the Federal Government's principal health statistics agency. Data includes information on the health status of the population, disparities in health use & status, and health trends.
  1. PubMed
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=bumcamlib
    A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related sources.
  • Social Security Administration
    http://www.ssa.gov/policy/
    Provides statistics about the Social Security program, disability insurance, socioeconomic characteristics, geographic information, etc.
  1. State Health Facts Online
    http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
    A 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 500 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation web site (www.kff.org) and KaiserNetwork.org (www.kaisernetwork.org). Includes state-level data on health policies, state legislation, access, etc.
  • Statistical Universe [About]
    The database indexes and abstracts social, demographic, and economic statistics published by the U.S. government, the U.N. and other international governmental organizations, as well as US state governments, and US private nonprofit and commercial associations and organizations.
  1. Tablebase [About]
    A database of statistical data on companies, products, industries, markets, demographics and countries. Tabular data is drawn from statistical annuals, trade association reports, government agencies, international organizations, newsletters and journals.
  • U.S. Census Bureau
    http://www.census.gov/
    Includes household statistics on health insurance, disability, well-being, fertility, etc.
  1. United Nations Global Statistics
    http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/global.htm
    Provides global demographic & social statistics covering mortality, health, disability, etc.

 

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