Health Data and Statistics

CONTENTS

Guides
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Indexes
State and Local Statistics
Federal Statistics
International Statistics
Hospital and Health Care Statistics
Disease-Specific Statistics
Social Science Data

GUIDES

: Health Statistics; http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/intres/guides/statcbw.html; Excellent guide to health statistics on the internet
: Statistical Resources on the Web/Health; http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html; From the University of Michigan Documents Center
: Introduction to Reference Sources in the Health Sciences; Sci Ref R129 .I58; Overview of information in health sciences

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DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

: A Dictionary of Epidemiology; Sci Ref RA651 .D53; Contains clear explanations of most terms encountered when dealing with vital and health statistics
: The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics in the Medical Sciences; Sci Ref RA407 .E94; Provides definitions of primarily statistical terms plus a number of relevant mathematical, computing, and genetic terms
: The International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision; Sci Ref RB115 .I49; Also known as the "ICD-9"; provides a decimal classification system representing specific diseases required by some government statistical sources

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INDEXES

Statistical Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/statuniv

Includes all the indexing of international, federal, and state and private statistical publications previously found in Statistical Masterfile. It also includes substantial full-text content of federal publications.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
Sci/Main Ref HA206 .S8
Contains summaries and compilations of data on population, vital statistics, education, health, income, and labor; sources are cited if more detailed data is required

Statistical Record of Health & Medicine
Sci Ref RA407.3 .S73
National, state, and municipal health and medical statistics, including data on health status and lifestyle, occupational health, health care industries, and international comparisons

MEDLINE
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database covering fields including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the health care system; contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from about 3,800 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries; use terms such as statistics, numerical data, incidence, prevalence, or distribution in your search

PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
NLM and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) search service to access MEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), GenBank, and related databases

NLM Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
Allows searches across several retrieval systems at the National Library of Medicine. The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.

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STATE AND LOCAL STATISTICS

: New York State Department of Health; http://www.health.state.ny.us; New York State's vital records and health related statistical data; county-level reporting provides local information.

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FEDERAL STATISTICS

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

The Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency; NCHS data systems include 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. Select Data Warehouse for statistical tables. Use Statistical Universe to locate information in these volumes; publications include:

Vital Statistics of the United States

Gov Docs HE 20.6210:

Annual reports containing detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce

Monthly Vital Statistics Report

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/mvsr/mvsr.htm

Monthly and cumulative data on births, deaths, marriages, and divorces, and infant deaths for States and the United States, with brief analyses of the vital statistics; also available in microform in Gov Docs (Microforms) HE 20.6217:

Vital and Health Statistics Series

Gov Docs HE 20.6209:

Also known as the "Rainbow Series", contains information on diseases, demographics, health care utilization, health resources, mortality, marriage, and divorce gathered from the National Health Interview Survey; use the Statistical Universe to locate information in these volumes.

Series Contents

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/ser.htm

National Health Interview Survey

Gov Docs CD-ROM HE 20.6209/4-3: 10 and: 10A

Estimates acute conditions, episodes of persons injured, restriction in activity, limitation of activity due to chronic conditions, prevalence of chronic conditions, and use of medical services for the national level only

Health, United States

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/2010/2010.htm

Consists of two parts: a topical presentation that varies each year, and 125 statistical tables that can be charted over the years to show continuing health trends; also available in print in Gov Docs HE 20.7042/6: and in Main Ref RA407.3 .H43

U. S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov

For social, demographic, and economic information

Current Population Reports

http://www.census.gov/mp/www/pub/pop/mspop.html#CPR

Published monthly and yearly by the Census Bureau. These reports contain data for states, counties and MSAs on the total population and components of change -- birth, death, and migration; also available in print in Gov Docs C3.186

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

http://www.cdc.gov

Federal agency charged with protecting the public health of the Nation by providing leadership and direction in the prevention and control of diseases and other preventable conditions and responding to public health emergencies; some statistical services include:

CDC Wonder

http://wonder.cdc.gov

General-purpose public health information and communications system developed by CDC; users can request data for any disease and demographic group, by submitting queries against available datasets. also provides free-text search facilities and document retrieval for several important text datasets, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from 1982 to the present, and CDC Prevention Guidelines

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Weekly compilation of disease statistics from the CDC; Also available in print in

Gov Docs HE 20.7009:

Other Federal Sites

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/sites.htm

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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS: WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System); http://www.who.int/whosis/; Guide to health and health-related statistical information from the World Health Organization
: World Health Statistics Annual; Sci Ref RA651 .A485; Compiled by the World Health Organization; contains vital and health statistics and health resources
: Demographic Yearbook (United Nations); Main Ref HA17 .D45; Contains official demographic statistics for about 220 countries or areas of the world by summarizing population estimates, infant and maternal mortality, marriage, and divorce

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HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CARE STATISTICS

: Hospital Statistics; Sci Ref RA 981 .A2 A6234; Published annually; includes geographically arranged data on hospital utilization, personnel, finances, facilities, and services
: Medicare/Medicaid Statistics & Data; http://www.cms.hhs.gov/researchers/; Statistics gathered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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DISEASE-SPECIFIC STATISTICS

: The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report; http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasrlink.htm; From the CDC; contains tabular and graphic information about U.S. AIDS and HIV case reports, including data by state, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure to HIV, sex, race/ethnicity, age group, vital status, and case definition category
: Cancer Statistics Review; http://seer.cancer.gov/statistics/index.html; National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program; collects cancer data from designated population-based cancer registries in various areas of the country; trends in cancer incidence, mortality and patient survival in the United States, as well as many other studies, are derived from this data bank.
: American Heart Association--Biostatistical Fact Sheets; http://www.americanheart.org/statistics/biostats/index.html; Organized by Populations and Risk Factors; American Diabetes Association--Diabetes Facts and Figures; http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-statistics.jsp

SEE ALSO

: Social Science Data; http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/databases/info.html?id=757; For information about numeric data available to the BU community for quantitative analysis; included are links to the Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archive, information about about population and economic data, historical statistics, sites for downloading data, and information about data services in BU Libraries

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