Liaison Librarian
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- AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)Provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
- DATA2010: the Healthy People 2010 DatabaseDeveloped 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.
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new windowA free ICPSR account is required to download data. The account must be created and accessed every 6 months from on-campus or through the proxied link above. Visit this guide for more information.
Provides access to computerized social science data collected by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
- Injuries, Illnesses, and FatalitiesBureau of Labor Statistics.
- MedlinePlus Health StatisticsThis consumer health site, administered by the National Library of Medicine, provides links to current health statistics.
- National Center for Health StatisticsProvides 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.
- NIH Institutes and OfficesDisease specific statistical information.
- NLM DIRLINERecords of organizations that produce health statistics.
- WHO: Data and statisticsThe World Health Organization website features data by public health category or by searching four databases:
