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- Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System
- Surveys and technical documentation on health risk behaviors (smoking,
dental visits, immunizations, binge drinking etc.) since 1996
- Large microdata sets in ASCII or DBF format as well as questionnaires
- Trends provides pretabulated data on health
risk behaviors for the nation and state
- CDC Wonder
- Searches and Queries permits searching of data sets
and reports
- Subjects include mortality, natality, AIDS, STDs, fluoridation, Census
- Some data broken down by state or local area
- Initial free registration required
- Various formats available; data may be sent via e-mail or you can
wait while on-line
- Clinical
Trials (NIH)
- Lists over 40,000 federal and private clinical trials to test
medications
- Provides details of medicine and recruitment information
- Searchable by keyword, whether or not recruiting, and medical
condition of patient
- Child
Health
USA (HRSA)
- Graphs, charts and pictures
- Number of children, those in poverty, low birth weight, breast feeding
- Infant and child mortality, hospitalizations, diseases, vaccination,
health insurance coverage
- State data on medicaid, commercial health insurance coverage, and
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage
- File is 1.7 MB in pdf; may take several minutes to download
- Combined Health Information
Database (NIH)
- Index to books and articles on various health topics (AIDS, cancer,
diabetes, etc) with corresponding abstracts and order information
- Searching the database by subject and the term "statistics" will
bring up the names of printed books containing the data, even though the
data itself is not on-line
- Computer-Assisted
Survey (UC-Berkeley)
- Data sets from the 1972-94 General Social Survey, 1972-92 National
Election Survey, and 1991 National Health Interview Survey
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Data.Gov
- Pan-government web site for microdata (raw, uncalculated data) produced by the
major statistical-producing agencies
- Searchable by keyword and/or category, agency, and file type (xml, csv,
kml/kmz, esri, and other)
- As of June 2009, this is a fledgling web site with 204 data files, primarily
from the Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service; expansion
expected
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- Health Resources and Services
Administration
- State and county indicators of public health, including coverage by
primary physicians and dentists, access to health care, maternal health,
children, and infectious diseases
- Health,
U.S. (DHHS)
- Detailed report on status of health and disease in the United States
- Numerous charts and spreadsheets as well as pdf report
- Archived copies dating back to 1975
- Healthfinder
(DHHS)
- Index to consumer reports on health and disease from federal
government agencies and individual organizations
- Includes reports containing statistics on disease incidence
- Search by health subject (e.g. AIDS, baby bottle tooth decay) and
refine by type of population and organizations/web resources
- Healthline
- Comprehensive consumer-oriented health site
- Extensive description of diseases, medications, and symptoms
- HealthWeb
- Extensive links to biostatistics on the Internet, U.S., international
and foreign
- Analytical annotations
- Healthy People
2010 (DHHS)
- Lists 467 health objectives in 28 categories for improving public
health in a ten-year period
- Examples: increase life expectancy and associated health; reduce new
cancer cases
- Data
2010 is a CDC Wonder product with detailed national health
statistics
- HRSA State
Profiles (Health Resources and Services Administration)
- Annual database (1997+) of federal government grants for primary
health services, maternal health, and infectious diseases
- Data on grants, physical and dental health providers, minority
population, AIDS, TB, and STDs
- Access by state or search variables across states for comparison
- Kaiser Family
Foundation
- Working papers on health care policy, HIV, media programs,
reproductive health, and South Africa
- State reports on medicare, medicaid, and other health insurance coverage
- Expensive public opinion polls on health policy, morals, and
politics
- MD Consult (UMich
Only)
- Full text of reference books, journal articles, and news for the
practicing physician
- Includes handouts given to patients
- Authentication required on and off campus
- MEDLINE (UMich Only)
- Searchable index to medical periodicals
- Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine
- Articles on health statistics can be retrieved by typing the subject
term and statistics (e.g. health insurance and statistics)
- Search
provides citation and abstract; articles may be ordered on-line
- Alternative is the National Library of Medicine's PubMed
- Medical Expenditure
Panel Survey
- Household survey of civilian population on insurance status, medical
use, and expenses as well as other topics
- Includes a nursing home component
- Data available for ftp; also in HTML or Adobe Acrobat format
- More detailed data available for purchase
- National Center for
Health Statistics
- News releases on natality, marriage, divorce, mortality, and
selected subjects
- FastStats is
alphabetical list by subject and state/territory of brief descriptive
data (e.g. teen births)
- Data
Warehouse has extensive links to published and unpublished
tables on mortality, natality, and behavioral risk factors
1996-97 and Injury Chartbook is its annual report in pdf format
- Includes downloadable files for use with Adobe Acrobat
- Health U.S. draws relationship between health status,
income, and race (pdf format)
- Links to Related
Health Statistics web sites
- Nation Health and
Nutrition Examination
Survey
- Data on health habits (nutrition, doctor's visits), health risks
(smoking), and health
outcomes (gall bladder, cancer)
- Some longitudinal coverage since the 1960s
- Data in ASCII format and codebooks in pdf
- Older
Americans 2000:Key Indicators of Well-Being
- Tables on population, economics, health status, health risks, and
health care for persons 65+ on a national level
- Most data is mid-1990s with some historical figures back to 1950
- Charts supplemented by spreadsheets in HTML and Excel format
- RX: Internet Drug
Index
- Search 300 drugs for description, warnings, effects, toxicity and
dosing
- Sociometrics
- Catalog of data archives on sociology, psychology, health, education,
disability, American family, and the elderly
- Web links to Internet sources of sociological data
- The University of Michigan's membership includes access to 300 data
sets, which may be downloaded on the web or extracted using the
CD-ROMS at the Social Work Library
- State
and Metropolitan Area Data Book (Census Bureau)
- Updates 1990 Census on state and metropolitan area with data on
various population and housing characteristics.
- Includes data from non-Census sources, including medicaid, crime,
energy, schools, motor vehicles
- Entire file is approximately 3 MB in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format
- HTML files provide state and metropolitan area rankings on
population, births and deaths, housing starts, crime, energy, and
government grants
- State
Master
- Rank states from best to worst using a series of pull-down menus
- Broad categories include crime, economics, education, health,
housing, immigration, labor, and demographics
- Some of the more "unusual data" includes the number of illegal
immigrants, electrocutions v. lethal injections, students scoring above
average on 4th grad math, alligator attacks and flu shots, and state
birds
- Data can be illustrated with a bar graph, pie chart, or map (e.g.
map of states with the largest number of Albanian refugees
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States, 1995+
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Health data appears in Section 3 in Adobe Acrobat format
- Health care expenditures, health insurance coverage, medicare and
medicaid recipients
- Hospitals, nursing homes, patients and diseases
- Health care professionals and health industry revenues
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Search Abstracts menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: mortality and by
city
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Surgeon General
Reports (PHS/NLM)
- Annual reports since 1964
- Over half of the reports cover various aspects of smoking
- Additional reports on mental health, youth violence, suicide, HIV,
obesity
- Additional proceedings of workshops
- Searchable and browsable by date, subject, or alphabetically
- University of
Michigan Digital Spatial Data Catalog
- Provides metadata for online and CD-ROM resources at the University of
Michigan for GIS
- Indexes datasets from the National Atlas, ESRI, Michigan Geographic
Data Library, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, and University of
Michigan Library
- Use specific subjects (e.g. population, cancer, butterflies) with
broader geographies (states, counties) to identify datasets
- Most data must be downloaded for later manipulation rather than used
directly on the web
- Vital
and Health Statistics Series (NCHS)
- Bibliography of approximately 20 series of health statistics monographs
- U.S. and international mortality, natality, nutrition, health care
expenditures
- National Health Interview Survey
- Selected links to full text
- Most printed and CD-ROM publications in the Public Health Library
- Women
of Color Health Data Book (NWHIC)
- Demographics of women of color (black, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic)
- Disease, mortality, and life expectancy rates
- Access to health care and need for minority physicians
- Center
for International
Health Information
- Regional and country health indicators for less-developed countries
receiving assistance from the Agency for International Development
- Fertility, infant mortality, childhood disease survival rates,
sanitation, access to potable water
- Core
Health Indicators (World Health Organization)
- Tables show basic country information on fertility and mortality
rates, life expectancy, and national health care expenditures
- First choose format for table and then the county
- Economic Intelligence Unit Country
Indicators (UMich Only)
- Time series of data since 1990 with forecasts for five years for 60
countries
- Focus on economic indicators, such as GDP, sectoral contributions to
GDP, inflation rate
- Includes social, demographic and health data (doctors per population,
life expectancy
- Income distribution by percentages, calorie consumption, retail sales
and consumption by sector
- Choose countries, variables, years and download as spreadsheet (xls)
- Campus subscription funded by Kresge Business Administration Library
- GenderStats
(World Bank)
- National-level statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force,
and political participation broken down by gender
- Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles
- Global
Insight (UMich Only)
- Business database with news and time series data on general
economics as well as the automotive, energy medical and pharmaceutical,
and telecommunications sectors
- For Automotive, Energy, Healthcare and Telecoms, use the link
provided under MYINSIGHT SERVICES on the lefthand side of the main
screen to select options which will eventually appear on the lower part
of the lefthand side
- HEALTH CARE - country data on causes of death, health care
expenditures per capita, the pharmaceutical market; US FDA approved drug
list
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP
and labor force
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities of the World focuses on population and
environment
- Millennium
Indicators (United Nations)
- Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually,
1985-2000
- Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education,
illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and
telephone lines
- Data accessed by name of country
- NationMaster
- Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of
social, economic and cultural statistics
- Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate
- Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top
100 to the bottom 5
- Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the
world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle
East
- National
Health-Related Web Sites (World Health Organization)
- Health statistics and general statistical web sites arranged by
country
- Progress of Nations (UNICEF)
- Annual report with country statistics on social indicators for women
and children
- Each issue has slightly different focus
- Progress of
Nations, 2000
- Progress of
Nations, 1999
- Progress of Nations,
1998
- Focus on the civil rights of children
- Data on birth registration, teen pregnancy, AIDS, health and
education benefits
- Progress of Nations,
1997
- Primary emphasis on water and sanitation
- Country data on access to sanitation, fertility and mortality,
nutrition, AIDS, and per capita GNP
- Progress of Nations,
1996
- Emphasis on the condition of women
- Country statistics on children include age, mortality rate,
nutrition, immunization, and education
- Maternal mortality rates and female mutilation cases by
country
- Pan American
Health Organization
- Vital statistics and basic morbidity statistics for North and South
American countries
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Search Abstracts menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: child mortality and by
foreign country
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full
text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version or search the
web
- United Nations Population
Fund
- Analyzes fertility and health issues in developing country
- Annual issues of its State of the World
Population since 1996 address gender violence, women's
rights, women and AIDS
- Some country natality statistics
- UN
Statistics Common
Data Base (UMich Only)
- Hundreds of data elements for almost all countries, 1946+ present
- Subjects include agriculture, economics, health, prices, men and
women, education, labor, development assistance, energy,
demographics, environment
- Basic View allows
selection of single data series for up to 10 countries for 20 years
- Advanced View supports multiple series, years, and countries with
downloading capability into Excel, ASCII, or CSV formats
- Web site includes definitions, sources of the data, and a topical list
of
subjects
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the dear
departed CITRIX server
- The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation
access
- World Health
Organization
- Catalog of WHO data bases on morbidity, mortality, epidemiology
- Mortality data by cause and sex for region but not by
country as of April 2000
- Text of World Health Report
- Sections on AIDS, malaria, and health personnel
- World
Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance
(WHO)
- Ranks health care systems of individual member countries
- Text and statistical annexes cover responsiveness of system,
distribution of care regardless of income, per capita expenditures, and
results
- France ranked first; the United States was thirty-seventh
- HTML interface to pdf format
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Annual publication with data compiled from various government and
non-government sources
- Section 2, includes abortion statistics
- The 1998 edition, tables 124-126, has abortions by race, 1975-95;
abortions by age; and abortions by state
- PDF format only
- Historical pdf versions of Statistical
Abstract are available from the Census Bureau web site for
1878+
- U.S.
Teenage
Pregnancy Statistics (Alan Guttmacher Institute)
- Teen pregnancies by outcome (births, abortions, miscarriages),
1986-2000
- Birth, abortion, and pregnancy rates per
1000 women by state
- Age distributions are 14 and under, 15-17, 18-19, and all under 20
- World
Abortion
Policies (UN Population Information Network)
- Country data on abortion rates (circa 1996), fertility rates, and
maternal deaths
- Chart with country policies on the legal grounds for abortion
- Census of Fatal and
Occupational Injuries (BLS)
- Annual survey with national data by specific type of injury, worker
characteristics (age, sex) and industry
- National Safety
Council
- Excerpts from its Injury Facts
- Includes type of deaths by age and type of accident (poisoning, firearms)
- School bus accidents, accidents and work and home
- Costs of accidents
- Full text located in the Graduate Library Reference Department as HA
217.A17 with additional copies on campus
- Workplace Injury, Illness
and Fatality Statistics (OSHA)
- Non-fatal illness and injury since 1992 by detailed industry
- Census of Fatal Injuries by occupation, industry, and worker
characteristics
- Types of injuries by industry and days of work loss
- See also Transportation
Statistics
- Cost
Helper
- Range of costs with and without health insurance for various medical
treatments
- Includes tests, cancer treatments, eyes, dental procedures, shots,
medical equipment
- The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses these groups to
publish reimbursement schedules under the Prospective Payment System
- Revisions to the PPS appear in the Federal Register, usually in July
or August
- It is difficult to find a single, current, updated list of all DRGs
and their payments
- You can calculate payments through the PC Pricer
system
- Americans
with Disabilities, 2002
- Detailed data on type of disability by age, race, sex and Hispanic origin
- Includes use of wheelchair and vision problems
- Disabilities
(Census Bureau)
- Summary national statistics on people with disabilities since the 1990
Census
- Includes broad type of disability, employment, education, income
- See also Demographics for
1990 and 2000 Census Data
- Presidential
Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities
- Appendix B provides national demographic data on persons
with disabilities by type of disability, age, and income
- Prevention of
Blindness and Deafness (WHO)
- Basic world data on blindness and deafness
- Some data by age, reason, and cause
- Women
with Disabilities - Statistical Information
- Annotated guide to disability statistics
- Includes estimates by type of disability, causes of children
with disabilities, diabetes
- Income and availability of health care to people with
disabilities
- AIDS
- AIDS
Economics (World Bank)
- Report, press releases, and links on the economics of fighting AIDS
in developing countries
- Statistics include AIDS cases by sex and condom sales in individual
developing countries
- UNAIDS
- Extensive epidemiological fact sheets on AIDS for individual countries
- Includes prevalence among type of population, sexual habits, and death
- Assessment of attitudes, health care system, and possible solutions
- Bibliography of further resources
- Report on children orphaned by AIDS
- Ameliorative campaigns
- UNAIDS
WHO
Epidemiology
- World and regional AIDS infections and death by demographic
characteristics
- American Cancer
Society
- Summary data on the incidence and survival rates of various forms of
cancer
- Extensive material classified by race
- American Heart
Association
- Statistics on various heart diseases, stroke, and high blood pressure
classified by age, race and sex
- Cancer Statistics
Review
- Cancer statistics by type of cancer and patient characteristics
- Time coverage is 1975-2001
- Disease
Outbreak News (World Health Organization)
Periodic reports on epidemics throughout the world since 1996
- Arranged by date and type of epidemic
- Heart
Disease Facts and Statistics
- Statistics on heart disease and contributing factors by race
- National maps with county level data on heart disease by race
- Links to more detailed data issued by the American Heart Association
and international sources
- Initiative to
Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health (DHHS)
- Discusses program to eliminate disparities in infant mortality,
cancer screening, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, HIV, and immunizations
- Statistical tables on all six subjects provide national data by race
and Hispanic origin
- Sample subjects include Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, amputations for
diabetes, stroke deaths, HIV infection rates
- International
Classification of Disease (ICD-10-CM)
- Simple list of disease classifications by three-digit code
with printed disease name
- Dated 2007
- International
Vaccination Institute
- Links to web sites and statistics on individual diseases and vaccines
- International in scope
- Includes vaccinations forecasts in the United States
- Kidney and Urologic
Diseases
- National estimates on various urologic diseases and survival rates
from dialysis and donor organs
- No demographic breakdowns
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Reports (CDC)
- Weekly articles on death, accidents, and disease, 1993+
- Includes interative tables for 122 cities
- National
Cancer Institute Factbook
- Incidence, survival rates, and deaths from various types of cancer
for men and women
- Cancer compared to other causes of death
- Historical funding of cancer programs
- National
Center on Sleep Disorders Research
- Section on Patient and Public Information
includes pamphlets on various sleep disorders and the effects of sleep
disorders on automotive driving
- National
Diabetes Fact Sheets (CDC)
- Incidence, long term implications, and deaths from diabetes
- National data with some age, race and sex breakdowns
- National
Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data
- Data since 1994 on patient characteristics, diagnoses, and various
forms of treatment
- Numerous reports in pdf format contain data table
- Additional raw data files available for ftp as well as survey
methodology and documentation
- Pollen
Count
- Current week's pollen count for trees, grasses, weeds, and molds
- Searchable by zip code
- Shoreland's Travel Health Online
- Incidence of disease and precautionary measures for travellers to
about 200 countries
- Excerpts from the State Department's Travel Advisories
- World Health Organization
- Numerous factsheets on communicable and non-communicable diseases on
a world basis
- See also Comprehensive
- Clinical
Trials (NIH)
- Lists over 40,000 federal and private clinical trials to test
medications
- Provides details of medicine and recruitment information
- Searchable by keyword, whether or not recruiting, and medical
condition of patient
- Human Radiation
Experiments
- Department of Energy documentation project on radiation experiments
from the 1940s through 1970s
- Includes location, purpose of experiment, dates, and people
involved
- Senior
Care Directory
- A directory of service directories for senior citizens
- Includes end of life, financial planning, health care, home care,
house, legal and transportation resources
- Searchable by state and zip code
- Right to Know
Hazardous Substances Fact Sheets (New Jersey Department of
Health)
- Over 2000 fact sheets on hazardous substances found in the workplace
- Includes description, health effects, OSHA and NIOSH limits
- Health precautions to minimize damage
- Recognizing exposure, emergency health services, and reporting
exposure
- Annual
Report of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability
Insurance Trust Funds
- Report and statistics on financial solvency of Social Security and
Medicare
- Predictions on how long the trust fund will last
- Assessing the New
Federalism
- State data base includes statistics and law tracking for the 50
states and D.C.
- Fiscal, economic, demographic data
- Information about income security, health, employment, housing, and
child welfare programs
- EXAMPLE: State Data Base - Use Online - Begin -
Health Insurance/Proceed - Minimum Group Size/Proceed - All Years - for
state laws on minimum size of group health insurance coverage
- Similar procedure for data on food stamps and AFDC caseloads
- Includes articles on state social service policies
- Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services
- Medicare and medicaid data via press releases and detailed reports
- Formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration
- Data Ferret
(BLS/Census)
- Data sets from the Current
Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program
Participation for easy or expert manipulation
- Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national, state,
and metropolitan area information
- Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health
insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
- Income, poverty and health insurance were the trial data sets as of
May 31, 1997
- Families
USA
- Consumer watchdog on the health care industry
- Numerous pdf reports and fact sheets on the uninsured, Medicare and
Medicaid
- Reports on the quality of care, including care given to people
without insurance
- Financial Overview
of the Managed Care Industry (Kaiser Foundation)
- Stock market data and profit margins of the managed care
industry, 1981-96
- Brief tables and charts
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
- ACA Signups (Charles Gaba)
- Spreadsheets broken down by state show Private Qualified Plan enrollments, Medicaid enrollments, and the enrollment pool
- National data on private off-exchange plans
- Gaba's projects as well as government numbers
- Census
Bureau
- Longitudinal and cross-sectional health insurance statistics
by state and various socioeconomic characteristics
- Data covers 1987-2002
- Losing
Health Insurance (Families USA)
- Investigative report finds 675,000 people lost health insurance
coverage in 1997 as direct result of welfare reform
- Minority children most likely to lack coverage
- Medicare
Compare (HCFA)
- Various search engines help people to compare hospitals, nursing
homes, doctors, and medicare drug plans in their area
- State Children's Health
Insurance
Program (HCFA)
- Provides grants to states for providing health insurance to poorer
children under medicaid
- State statistics on enrollment
- Laws, regulations, and individual state plans
- Uninsured in
America (PBS News Hour)
- National survey results (pdf format) of public perceptions of the
numbers and causes for people without health insurance coverage
- Surveys of the uninsured about the effects and problems they encounter
- Pop-up menus with a chronology of health insurance in America,
individual state requirements for child health coverage, and the percent
of non-elderly who are uninsured
- Health Plan Report
Card (National Committee for Quality Assurance)
- Rates HMO and medicaid plans by location or nationally on access to
health care, prevention, living with disease and recovery
- Updated every month
- National Committee for Quality Assurance
(NCQA)
- Quality Compass rates participating health
plans (e.g. HMOs)
- Summary national data on childhood immunizations, health care
screening, access to health care, and percentage of mental health
patients readmitted to hospitals
- Includes the organization's annual report
- Consumer Product Safety
Commission
- Online consumder protection publications (e.g. toys, carbon monoxide)
- List of product recalls since 1994 arranged by date or searchable by
subject
- Household
Products Database (NLM)
- Extensive listing of normal household products (cleaners, lawn care,
hobbies, personal care) by brand name
- For each provides manufacturer contact information, acute and chronic
health effects, ratings for flammability, health, and reactivity
- Detailed listing of ingredients an disposal procedure
- Skin
Deep:
Safety Assessment of Personal Care Products
- Data base of personal care products: cosmetics, shaving, skin care,
eye care, baby care
- Provides possible health risk ratings of individual products and
products in groups (e.g. brand names of nail polish removers)
- Toxicity rated on a scale of 1-10 for cancer, pregnancy, safety,
penetration, harmful impurities, and allergies
- Provides alternatives to the riskiest products
- Published by the Environmental Working Group in 2004
- American Hospital
Directory
- Free services include identification of hospitals by name or state,
city, area code, zip code
- Includes hospital beds, accreditation, revenue, services
- For Medicare patients shows length of stay, charges, and type of
treatment
- America's
Best Hospitals (US News and World Report)
- Originally reviewed 1800 hospitals
- Ranks 135 hospitals in 17 specialties
- Can also access rankings by name, specialty and geographic
area
- Ann Arbor Hospitals
- Series of articles in Ann Arbor News
beginning on p.1 of November 29, 1999
- Outlines effects of federal budget cutbacks on U-M Hospital, St.
Joseph's and Beyer
- Includes budget, 1998/99 receipts and deficit, and means for meeting
Medicare cutbacks (equipment, staff shortages, etc.)
- Pie charts include percentage of business from Medicare, HMO
- Not available on the web
- Cite
Health
- Provides member reviews of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis
centers, and other health facilities
- The new site had only 150 reviews as of May 2008 but provides
descriptive information about an extensive list of facilities in the
nation
- Health
Care Cost and Utilization Project
- Track national data on hospital utilization, access, charges, quality
and outcome
- Follow menu through diagnosis and treatment to patient
characteristics and outcome
- Example: average length of stay for a Caesarian section is 3.1 days
before discharge regardless of health insurer
- Hospital
Compare
- Choose geography (zip code, city, county state)
- Then compare hospitals in area on treatment for heart attack, heart failure
or pneumonia treatments
- Hospital
Infection Data Base
- MLIVE database of hospital infections in Michigan by county and hospital
- Includes infections from surgical hysterectomies and colonoscopies; bloodstream; MRSA; regular colon; and catheter related urinary infections
- National information on individual hospitals appears at Medicare Hospital
Compare under "Readmissions, Complications, and Deaths/Health Care Associated Infections"
- Joint
Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- Accreditation reports for hospitals, assisted living, behavioral care,
and long-term care facilities
- Search by name or geographic area
- National
Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine
- Ranks states on four characteristics of good hospital emergency room
care: access to emergency care, public health and prevention, patient
quality and safety, and medical liability
- The overall state pages are supplemented by more detailed reports in
pdf format
- Includes recommendations for state policy changes
- Published by the American College of Emergency Physicians in January
2006
- To
Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Institute of
Medicine)
- Press release dated November 29, 1999 outlining errors made by hospitals
- Calls for safeguards built into patient treatment system
- Full
Text in pdf or open text format using buttons on the left
side of the screen
- Top
100 Hospitals (HCIA)
- Lists top-rated hospitals by state and name
- Criteria include deaths, length of stay, and productivity
- Analysis of individual hospitals must be purchased
- Life
Tables
(NCHS)
- Life expectancy at birth for persons born 1901 to present
- Data are for totals, sex and race
- PDF format only
- Life
Expectancy Tables (IRS)
- Life expectancy for single persons, owners of IRAs, and couples when
one is 10 years younger than the other
- To be used for retirement distributions
- No distinction made between men and women
- Appears in Appendix C
- U.S.
Decennial Life Tables
- Percent dying and average life remaining based on 1990 Census
- National and state data for black and white males and females and all
males or females other than white
- Requires Adobe Acrobat
- Mapping
Mental Health
(WHO)
- Country profiles on mental health policy, approved drugs, psychiatric
beds per population, and number of mental health workers (e.g.
psychiatrists, social workers) per population
- Companion atlas shows countries in the world by each of the themes
above
- Mental
Health:
A Report of the Surgeon General
- Extensive textual report on the causes and treatment of mental
illnesses in children and adults
- Projects 20% of public suffers from mental difficulties at some time
in their lives
- Stigma considered one reason for failure to seek treatment
- Statistics interspersed with text
- National Institute of
Mental Health
- Reports for the public include types of common mental illnesses and
medications
- Grant opportunities and publications for researchers and practitioners
- Current clinical trials
- Numerous statistics in reports, including Numbers Count: Mental
Illness in America
- White
House Conference on
Mental
Health
- Background information, speeches
- Facilitator guide and agenda
- Links to other federal web sites
- Topics include employment and
disability protections, school violence, victims of crime
- Led by Tipper
Gore and held on June 7, 1999
- Noise and Its
Effects
- Common noise levels, such as airplanes, railroads, streets
- Effect of noise on hearing and other bodily functions, including
blood pressure
- Written by Dr. Alice Suter for the Administrative Conference of the
United States in 1991
- Cite
Health
- Provides member reviews of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis
centers, and other health facilities
- The new site had only 150 reviews as of May 2008 but provides
descriptive information about an extensive list of facilities in the
nation
- Nursing
Home Compare (HCFA)
- Search individual nursing homes by any combination of state, county,
city, zip code or name
- Lists location and number of beds
- Number of care violations at last inspection and comparison with the
state
- Describes individual violations and their severity
- Dietary
Guidelines for Americans: 2005
- Major revision suggesting Americans count calories and get 30 minutes of
exercise per day
- Includes fats, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins and minerals
- Food and
Nutrition Information Center (US)
- Dietary guidelines for Americans
- Data on food composition, healthy eating, and
body weight standards
- Nutrient
Data Base (USDA)
- Nutrient value of almost 6000 different foods
- Provides protein, carbohydrates, fats, water, vitamins, minerals,
cholesterol, and energy produced
- Search for individual foods (e.g.hamburgers) or download data
sets
- Physical Activity and
Health
- 1996 report of the U.S. Surgeon General
- Statistics on the amount for physical activity for various age
groups and longevity with exercise
- Executive summaries, fact sheets, and press releases in Adobe Acrobat
or Postscript format
- Global Database
on Body Mass Index
- Extensive searchable database of underweight, normal, overweight,
pre-obese, and obese people by individual country and their cities by
sex
- Includes mapping capability
- Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
- Federal rules and regulations on worker protection
- Searchable database of occupational inspections by company
- Occupational illnesses and deaths by industry and type of accident
- Links to data supplied through the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Osh.Net
- Extensive and organized guide to occupational health and
safety
- Annotated links to web sites on occupational safety,
industrial
hygiene, environmental
management
- Includes laws and regulations on product safety,
workers
compensation, whistleblowing, personal
injuries
- Transweb
- FAQs on organ donations and personal stories
- Directory of transplant centers
- Search engine which can be used for both medical information and
statistics
- Families
USA (Families USA)
- Numerous reports on the cost of prescription drugs
- Organization's lobby efforts
- House
of
Representatives Prescription Drug Task Force
- Numerous reports and studies on cost of prescription drugs in the
U.S. versus foreign countries, cost to seniors as opposed to HMOs, and
drug company profits
- Authors include the Congressional Research Service and lobby groups
- Open
Payments
- Payments by pharmaceutical or other health equipment companies to
individual doctor or dentist
- Search name, location, and/or specialty
- Pharmaceutical
Policies in OECD Countries
- Tables include country data on per capita pharmaceutical
expenditures, percent of GDP, and percent of health expenditures
- Imports and exports
- Regulations for dispensing drugs and price controls
- Behavioral Risk
Factor Surveillance System (CDC)
- National and state data on health risk behaviors, 1995+
- Questions include vegetable consumption, weight control, screening
exams, immunizations
- Community
Health Status Indicators Project (Health Resources and Service
Administration)
- Health data for each county in the U.S. beginning July 2000
- Identifies county by name, state, or a combination of size and minority
population
- PDF reports for each county provide basic demographics and a list of
peer counties
- Compares life expectancy, risk behaviors, key causes of death
(including homicide and suicide), access to health care between the
counties, its peers and the U.S. median
- No longer on the web or preserved in
web archive; CD-ROMS available at the Public Health
Library as Pu42
- The project will be restored in September 2007; Public Health Indicators
and National Data provides links to the state and
national subject-based resources which will be used
- Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance
- National data since 1990 on health risks taken by high school
students, eg. unprotected sex, riding motorcycles without a helmet,
school violence, nutrition
- See also Nutrition and
Substance Abuse
- Cigarette
Smoking
- Percent of population smoking cigarettes, 1965 to
present
- Data by age, race, and sex
- State
Data
- State-by-state data on smoking by
age, sex and race
- Smoking-related deaths
- Funds spent by states on anti-smoking campaigns and ranking based on
CDC spending standards
- College Drinking
- A
Call to Action: Changing the Culture of Drinking at U.S.
Colleges
- Report issued by college presidents in April 2002 under the auspices
of the National Institutes of Health
- Occasions for binge drinking and consequences
- Culture promoting binge drinking and student population most affected
- Strategies for resolving the situation
- College
Drinking (NIAAA)
- Statistics on deaths and injuries caused by college drinking
- Research
- Links to drinking policies of individual colleges
- Sections for students, college presidents, campus health
administrators, peer counselors
- International
Narcotics Control Board
- Annual report provides regional and country statistics on illegal use
of drugs and drug trafficking
- National Institute on
Drug Abuse
- Pamphlets and reports on drug abuse by type of drug and type of user
- Research and upcoming conferences
- Drug
Abuse and Addiction: Report to Congress
- Triennial report on drug abuse by type of drug and user
- Outlines research program for the future
- InfoFax
- Pamphlets reporting national trends on drug abuse by types of drug
- Focus on elementary through college age
- National
Household Drug Abuse Survey (SAMSHA)
- National and state data on illegal drug, cigarette and alcohol use
- Breakdowns by age and type of abuse
- Text, charts, and data
- National
Substance Abuse Web Index
- Index of 24 state, federal, and private web sites with substance
abuse information
- Sample search: students and cocaine
- Office of
National Drug Control Policy
- Several reports with current data on drug use and arrest
- Focus on heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and "emerging drugs"
- Public expenditures for drugs
- Partnership for a
Drug Free America
- Description of drugs and their effects
- Results of study on drug use in middle and high school; compares
parents' knowledge of problem to students' reports
- Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Data Archive (ICPSR)
- Microdata from government drug abuse and mental health surveys, 1970s
to the present
- Includes codebooks in compressed and uncompressed format
- Joint SAMHSA (federal government) and ICPSR project
- Quick Start Instructions
- Choose Data Analysis System
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of National Household Drug Survey
- Time since last alcoholic beverage by 11 age groups
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "agecat3" as
vertical and "al03" as horizontal; check off percentaging as horizontal;
run the table
- Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Various data sets in a variety of formats
- Substance abuse (drug, cigarette, alcohol) by age, gender, and
various demographic characteristics from the National Household Survey on
Drug Abuse
- Hospital admissions for drug abuse and outcomes on a national state
basis (DAWN)
- Tobacco Use
Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups (CDC)
- Trends in tobacco use by African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and
American Indians
- Attempts of define cultural reasons for use
- Fact Sheets in HTML format; summary and full text in pdf format
- Assisted
Reproductive Technology Success Rates (CDC)
- National fertility success rates using fresh or frozen eggs or
embryos by demographic characteristics of women
- Data for individual clinics is arranged by state and includes success
rates, causes of infertility, and pregnancy details by age of woman
- Atlas of Cancer
Mortality, 1950-1994 (NCI)
- County maps of cancer mortality by type of cancer, race, and sex.
- Choose type of cancer, geography, and population
- Maps in gif format
- Data may be downloaded in ASCII or DBF format
- Entire atlas also
available in PDF format
- Atlas
of United States Mortality (CDC)
- Maps of mortality by cause (stroke, heart disease, cancers, suicide,
homicide) by race and sex
- United States map shaded for multicounty regions
- Five of the eighteen maps in gif format but most must be downloaded
using Adobe Acrobat
- Some files over 5 megabytes
- Death Rates by
Cause and Age (Disaster Center)
- Death rates by detailed cause by 12-year age groups
- National data for 1979, 1995 and 1996
- International
Population Data Base (Census Bureau)
- Summary vital statistics data for all countries, 1996 and 2000 as
well as mid-year estimates, 1950-2020
- Additional data on marital status, means on contraception, ethnic
origin, religion, literacy, labor force, income and poverty
- Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet
- Display
Mode provides a user-friendly pull-down menu for viewing on
the screen
- Monthly
Vital Statistics Report
- Monthly national and state birth, death, marriage, and divorce figures
- Mortality statistics categorized by age/race/sex or disease on a
national level
- Monthly data begins with July 1994 issue
- Provisional annual birth and death data as well as special issues on
health topics
- Available only in Adobe Acrobat format
- Renamed National
Vital Statistics Report beginning with v. 47, 1998
- National Death
Index (Social Security Administration)
- Search decedents with Social Security numbers by name, SSN, birth
date,
death month/year
- "Last location" is city/state where lump sum death benefit
paid
- National Safety
Council
- Excerpts from its Accident Facts
- Includes type of deaths by age and type of accident (poisoning, firearms)
- School bus accidents, accidents and work and home
- Costs of accidents
- Full text located in the Graduate Library Reference Department as HA
217.A17 with additional copies on campus
- Vital
Stats
- Create your own tables, charts and graphs and births (since 1990)
and perinatal mortality (since 2003) for states and counties in the
nation
- Detailed cross tabs on conditions of the pregnancy or demographic
characteristics of the mother
- As of April 2008, a similar database for death statistics is under
development
- U.S.
Teenage
Pregnancy Statistics (Alan Guttmacher Institute)
- Teen pregnancies by outcome (births, abortions, miscarriages),
1972-2002
- Birth, abortion, and pregnancy rates per
1000 women
- Age distributions are 14 and under, 15-17, 18-19, and all under 20
- USA
Counties, 1998 (Census Bureau)
- Population and housing variables (age, ancestry, race, education,
income, and poverty for each county in the nation with some updates from
the Current Population Survey
- 1992 economic census data (manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail
trade, service industries) as well as government employment and finance
- Non-Census data includes federal funds, current employment data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, election data through 1992, health, Social
Security beneficiaries, and vital statistics (births, marriages, deaths
- Data may be retrieved for an individual county or comparisons between
counties can be requested
- Vital
Records Information State Index
- Where to write for birth, death, and marriage records for all states
and most counties
- Includes fees when available
- Additional links to state and national genealogical web
sites
- Alternative
CDC Site
- World
Health Organization Information System
- Deaths and death rates by country, cause, age group, and sex for
member countries
- First choose one of four tables; then choose country and year from a
pull-down menu
- Includes death by disease as well as homicide and suicide
- See also Comprehensive
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