LibGuides: Healthcare Leadership : Health Statistics

Getting Started

Click one of the sub-areas of health statistics to browse health statistics resources by topic.

Here are a few good places to start:

FastStats: National Center for Health Statistics
Statistical Abstract of the United States
National Center for Health Statistics
The Nation's principal health statistics agency provides data and reports on a wide range of health topics. Select Faststats for quick access to summary data.
ProQuest Statistical Publications and DataSets
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ProQuest Statistical DataSets provides fast and easy access to 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts.
State Health Facts (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data from all 50 states on more than 500 health topics.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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CDC.gov provides health professionals, researchers, and the public with credible, reliable health information on:

Data and Statistics
Diseases and Conditions
Emergencies and Disasters
Environmental Health
Healthy Living
Injury, Violence and Safety
Life Stages and Populations
Travelers' Health
Workplace Safety and Health
WHO Global Health Observatory
"The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information." [provider description]

Other statistics resources to start with

CDC Chronic Disease Prevention

CDC Vital Stats

Census Bureau, American FactFinder

Child Health U.S.A.

Health, United States, 2010

Kids Count

Rhode Island Department of Health

Rhode Island DataHub. Indicators on child well-being in RI

SEER - Cancer data for United States, from NCI

Learning More

The following tutorials will help you improve your statistics searching skills.

Finding Health Statistics Online
"This tutorial will familiarize you with a broad array of the most important sources of online public health statistics. It will also present a structured search process for locating and evaluating health statistics online." A MI-INFO (Michigan Informatics) tutorial funded by the National Library of Medicine.
Health Statistics Tutorial
This section of the Public Health Information & Data Tutorial teaches you how to identify relevant and appropriate data and information sources. Sponsored by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.