Subject Guides — Health Statistics
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- National Center for Health Statistics
- The nation's principal health statistics agency. Provides data on "vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care."
- CDC Wonder
- "A single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and health data." Users may search both numeric datasets including statistics related to births, deaths, and diseases as well as text-based databases such as the MMWR.
- MMWR
- Full text of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
- Statistical Resources on the Web: Health
- An excellent starting point for identifying useful sources of health-related statistics on the web. Categories include: accidents, disability, disease, experimentation, health care, health insurance, HMOs, hospitals, nutrition, substance abuse, and vital statistics.
- FEDSTATS
- "Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies"
- HIT: Health Information Tennessee
- "Provides the usual assortment of previously calculated health and population statistics, but also... allows the user the opportunity to query various Tennessee health databases in such a way that personalized charts and tables can be produced."
- WHOSIS (World Health Organization Statistical Information System)
- "A guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization."
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