Lemieux Library Guides: Statistics and Data Sources: US Health

General Government-Health Statistics

RWJF DataHub, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"RWJF DataHub is a flexible, free, user-friendly tool that provides US national and state health statistics in numerous areas. To begin, the user selects from a list of six broad categories, e.g., Public Health, Health Care Costs, Healthier Lifestyles. Next, the user chooses an indicator. For example, there are ten indicator options for the Public Health category; they include Tobacco Taxes, Limited Activity, and Cancer Incidence. After selecting an indicator, national or state statistics can be accessed. National data are displayed on an interactive map. Hovering the computer mouse over a state reveals statistics." Find data back to 2000

The Greater Seattle Datasheet: Presents demographic information about the City of Seattle and its surrounding region.
Seattle.gov Public Health Data: Public health, health care, insurance, physician, and records data

King County Public Health: Data, publications, and reports about Seattle and King County.

Washington State Department of Health - Health Data:Detailed table of contents for Health Data pages
Washington State Department of Health - Center for Health Statistics: The Center for Health Statistics provides access to current, high quality health data that covers deaths, births, pregnancy rates, abortion rates, behavioral risk factors, and hospital data. Data are distributed as raw data sets, statistical tabulations, web pages and through printed reports.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - State Data: The State Information Page provides quick access to statistics and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states on a variety of topics of public health importance.

CDC FastStats: The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
CDC Data & Statistics by Topic
CDC National Center for Health Statistics: NCHS collects data from birth and death records, medical records, interview surveys, and through direct physical exams and laboratory testing. NCHS is a key element of the national public health infrastructure, providing important surveillance information that helps identify and address critical health problems.

World Health Organization (WHO) Data & Statistics: WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation
WHO Country Statistics: The country statistical pages bring together the main health data and statistics for each country, as compiled by WHO and partners in close consultation with Member States, and include descriptive and analytical summaries of health indicators for major health topics.
WHO Global Health Observatory: The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme.

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