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The U.S. Government collects and makes freely available many valuable statistics and data sets.
Many public-use data files are available for purchase from the National Center for
Health Statistics.
Some government sites offer tools for finding data.
States vary in the amount of data they provide, but national statistics often have
a state, and sometimes a county and metropolitan area, component.
Be aware that data may not have been collected on your subject.
Data may not be available for very recent years. It takes time to collect, analyze data
and publish it.
Local data continue to present challenges.
Although abundant data is freely available on the web from government or education
sites, some data may not be free.
Private statistics organizations may charge for hard-to-find data collected through
private surveys.
Consider the limitations of your data.
Data are only as reliable as the methods used to collect them and those who collected them.
Some data may be of varying quality.
Certain methods of collecting data, such as telephone surveys, may have inherent limitations.
This resource focuses on popular health statistics sources.
How can I locate Alabama statistics? See also National statistics.
Statistics for Alabama and other states? See also National statistics.
Alabama Center for Health Statistics (ACHS). Good place to start.
Vital Statistics at a Glance.
County Data.
Mortality; Infant Mortality
Pregnancy/Birth
Demographics/Population
PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assesssment Monitoring System)
Statistical Query: create tables showing frequencies of Alabama resident births or deaths
by year, county, race, age group, cause of death, birth characteristics, etc.
Marriage/Divorce
ACHS Related sites link to US statistics sites.
University of Alabama. Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
State Health Facts Online
50 state comparisons and individual state profiles from a clickable map.
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online contains state-level data on demographics, health and health policy, including health coverage and uninsured, Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP, health costs, budgets and state legislation.State Data from NCHS (scroll down the NCHS page to
locate this state data link )
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce (PHPartners)
A collaboration of U.S. Government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.
This portal site is a valuable resource for public health professionals.
*Tutorial -- click NEXT at the bottom of the page to continue the tutorial which includes case
studies and web sites.
The tutorial includes modules for health statistics, health education resources
and evidence-based public health.
MedlinePlus--Health Statistics
Handy entry to statistics from the National Library of Medicine's consumer health site.
Free high quality health information on over 700 health topics, drug information, a medical encyclopedia and dictionary as well as a backdoor search of MEDLINE/PubMed for recent research articles on a health topic. The resources section on a health topic provide a good source for finding national associations that provide information or statistics on a topic.
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
from the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) by Dan Melnick, PhD (2000).
Good links to data and data sets.
Provides an index to websites by subject area.
Go to Data Tools and Statistics.
health statistics agency.
NCHS is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department
of Health & Human Services.
All material appearing in NCHS publications, unless otherwise stated, is in the public
domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission; citation as to source,
however, is appreciated.NCHS Data Users Conference July 2006 NCHS Data Users Link from this page to Power Point presentations:
Exploring Features of the
NCHS Web, Session 33Accessing and Using NCHS
Data: An Overview and Demonstration of NCHS
Data Access Tools,
Session 66NCHS Data Users Conference August 2008
human services data and statistics. It is designed to complement other government resources
such as FirstGov and FedStats. The Gateway covers federal, state and local government
sponsored information.
Some NCHS surveys and data systems are ongoing annual systems while others are
conducted periodically.
NCHS has two major types of data systems:
systems based on populations, containing data collected through personal interviews or examinations;
and systems based on records, containing data collected from vital and medical records.
Here are a few popular surveys:
cost, and utilization of health care services. Links also to evidence-based practice
reports and clinical practice guidelines.
Data & Surveys:
MEPS—Medical Expenditure Panel Survey The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS
is the third in a series of national probability surveys conducted by AHRQ on the financing
and utilization of medical care in the United States.
MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and
health insurance coverage.
HCUPnet—Interactive Tool for Hospital Statistics.
A free, on-line query system based on HCUP (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project)
data - provides access to health statistics and information on hospital stays at the national,
regional, and State level.
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse, a quality assessment site sponsored by the
AHRQ for specific evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS
The BRFSS, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks related to personal
health behavior in the United States. Limitations: households surveyed must have a
residential telephone line.
YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Data and statistics. Addresses the prevalence of risky health behaviors, such as
tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors etc. among high school students.CDC WONDER
access to a wide variety of reports and public health data. Especially good for mortality
statistics and health promotion.NCHS and the Bureau of the Census collaborated to provide NCHS data sets in the
Census Data Ferrett system.
DataFerrett is a unique data mining and extraction tool.
It allows you to select a databasket full of variables, recode those variables as needed,
and then develop and customize tables and charts.
HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse The HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse includes
information on grants and loans programs, underserved areas, and service demonstration
programs and integrates these with data acquired from external sources.Geospatial Data Warehouse data sources are varied.
A map tool is available for users who would like to place the data in a geographic
context (i.e. mapping the location of community health centers).
MMWR-Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Disease trends, state and local health statistics.
Link to summary of notifiable diseases.
Legal authority for the registration of these events resides individually with the 50 States,
2 cities (Washington, DC, and New York City),
and 5 territories (Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
These jurisdictions are responsible for maintaining registries of vital events and for
issuing copies of birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates.
with Vol. 47, No. 1.Regular issues cover provisional birth, death, marriage, and divorce statistics.
Four to six special reports are issued per year.
Special reports cover final data on births for the previous year,
and special topic analyses are issued from time to time.
Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics
These reports provide early release of data from NCHS health and demographic surveys.
Many of these releases are followed by detailed reports in the Vital and Health
Statistics series.Full text (.PDF) files linked to these lists: AD 245 and AD 254 through most recent issue.
Paper copies of other Advance Data reports may be available in a Government Depository
or health sciences library. The highest numbers are the most recent publications.
Citation of the source is appreciated, when quotations from the reports
are used in publications.
Users access vital statistics and population data interactively.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Office of Applied Studies.
Mental Health statistics
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS).
Research, data and reports from the CDC.
Handy general guide to useful statistics.
Published since 1878, the Statistical Abstract is the standard summary of statistics on the
social, political, and economic organization of the U.S.
Section 1 for Population, Section 2 for Vital Statistics, and Section 3 for Health and Nutrition
will be most used for health statistics information.
Section 11 Social insurance and human services and Section 16 Science and Technology may
also be helpful.
Check Appendices, especially Appendix I: guide to sources of statistics and guide to state
statistical abstracts,
Appendix II: limitations of the data and
Appendix VI: new tables.
Lister Hill Library Reference HA 45 UN3sHealth, United States, 2006
Complete report PDF requires Acrobat 7.
Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics. The report consists of two main sections: A chartbook containing text and figures that illustrates major trends in the health of Americans; and a trend tables section that contains 147 detailed data tables.
Also available in LHL Reference WA 900 AA1 H349.
The chartbook for 2006 is the Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans With Special Feature on Pain.Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation.
It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant
preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
Fewer statistics tables here--focus is on future-based objectives and goals. Large file.
Also available in LHL Reference WA 108 H3490 v. 1 and v. 2..
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the
National Cancer Institute collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 14 percent of the U.S. population.
About Seer will give background information on the program.
nonfatal injury data. This data is useful for research and for making informed public health decisions.
CMS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Faststats
Quick statistics arranged alphabetically by category. Includes state and territorial data.
National Cancer Institute (see SEER entry above)
ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research.
A unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, ICPSR includes over 550 member colleges and unversities world- wide.
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
ICPSR supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.One of ICPSR's thematic data categories is Health Care and Facilities.
For additional help, call the Reference Desk at
205-934-2230
or contact us at www.uab.edu/lister/qpask/.
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