Health Statistics  

The National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) offers an extensive web tutorial that explains how health statistics are compiled and where to find different types of statistical information.

Provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.

Developed by staff of the division of Health Promotion Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics, it contains the most recent monitoring data for Tracking Healthy People 2010. Includes data by population group.

See Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This consumer health site, administered by the National Library of Medicine, provides links to current health statistics.

Provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality. This and CDC Data and Statistics page above provide portals to most of what is available.

Disease specific statistical information.

Records of organizations that produce health statistics.

The World Health Organization website features data by public health category or by searching four databases: