Finding Health Statistics: Getting Started

This course describes the range of available health statistics, identifies their sources and helps you understand how to use information about their structure as you search.

Who collects health related statistics and how to find them.

Helps to understand how health and medical data is collected and what types of data are most commonly available.

America's Health Rankings is a yearly assessment of the relative healthiness of the nation, based upon analysis of comprehensive determining factors such as personal behaviors, the environment in which people live and work, the decisions made by public and elected officials and the quality of medical care delivered by health professionals.

An online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data that presents the results from four key data programs - Census of Housing and Population, Economic Census, American Community Survey,and Population Estimates Program.

Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),it is an integrated information and communication system for public health.

Provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government. Data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, and more.

Global data on HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analysis.

An interactive database system developed by staff of the Division of Health Promotion Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics that contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010.

Has surveys from more than 75 countries on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, as well as child survival, HIV/AIDS, malaria, and nutrition.

This 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, sources of more data, and to related web pages.

A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.A website that allows users to generate graphs based on statistics extracted from the CIA Factbook.

A rich source of information about America's health. A unique public resource for health information - a critical element of public health and health policy.

Offers a collection of 117 indicators for 48 states and territories of the Americas from 1995 to 2007. Presents data and indicators on:demography, socioeconomic, mortality, morbidity and risk factors, access, resources and health coverage.

PHPartners.org lists sites that provide access to general statistics relevant to public health.

This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

An interactive database that brings together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises of more than 70 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables.