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Major Sources of Health Statistics
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FastStats
State and territorial data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is the Nation's principal health statistics agency. Health, United States is an annual report on national healthcare trends. Individual data sets provided by the NCHS include:- National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES)
- National Health Care Survey (NHCS)
NCHS includes a family of surveys:- National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
- National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS)
- National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
- National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS)
- National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS)
- National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS)
- National Health Provider Inventory (NHPI)
- National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
- National Immunization Survey
- National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
- State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS)
- National Vital Statistics System
- Statistical Universe
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wonder
- National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
- National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
Statistical data from federal government sources, state and private-sector publications, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations. With one search you can examine the statistical output of over 200 federal agencies, 50 state governments, 100 international intergovernmental organizations, and 500 private and academic sources.
A wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
Health workforce information collected by the HRSA Bureau of Health Professions
Information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in health services research, behavioral and social sciences and public health with links to PubMed.
- Census Bureau Home Page
- Health Statistical Resources on the Web
- State Health Agencies
- SourceOECD Health Data
- Roper Center
- Health Poll Search
- Interagency Collaborative for Nursing Statistics (ICONS)
Extensive list of web sources for health statistics from the University of Michigan Library.
The most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries.
For UConn only. A gateway to social science data resources and programs.
Full text archive of public opinion questions on health issues.
Though published in 1997, ICONS's list of Nursing Data Sources and Gaps is thorough and useful for nursing research.
Tutorial for Health Statistics
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If you have questions or comments, please contact: Jill Livingston, Liaison Librarian to the University of Connecticut's School of Allied Health, School of Nursing and Department of Kinesiology.