Health and Healthcare in the United States: County and Metro Area Data:
Health, United States: published by the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration, National Center for Health Statistics ; Washington, D.C.
REF RA407.3 .U57a Each issue emphasizes a different health-related topic, sometimes reflected in a distinctive subtitle. Other issues in Moore Library stacks (same call number). Archived issues (1975 - present) are also available full-text online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/previous.htm#editions.
REF RA407.3 .U57b See healthcare resources by state and county, and by metroploitan area. Also provides data on the number of deaths by cause.
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2002 Federal Health Information Centers Clearinghouses
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
CDC- National Center for Health Statistics
CDC State and Territorial Data
The CDC Wonder allows you to create your queries from health statistics
Center for Health Care Strategies
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Center for Studying Health System Change
Employer Health Benefits Annual Survey
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
(A portal to the web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services and other federal departments and non-profit organizations.)
Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW)
Source for national, state, and community health indicators categorized by topic, geography, and initiative. Data is collected from many Agencies and Offices within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
(A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
HealthInsight: National Performance Rankings: Home Health Agencies
HealthInsight: National Performance Rankings: Hospitals
HealthInsight: National Performance Rankings: Nursing Homes
Healthy NJ - Information for Healthy Living
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. Contains statistics on Medicaid and the uninsured in each state of the United States. Links to resources on health policy, productive health and children, AIDS and HIV, and media programs. The organizations three main areas of support are Health Policy, Media and Public Education, and Health and Development in South Africa.
The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
National Center for Health Statistics
The National Center for Health Statistics has a wealth of datasets that can be downloaded, in addition to the datasets they have posted tools for mining the numbers:click here
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
National Health Care Survey (NHCS)
National Vital Statistics System
NHIC: National Health Information Center
(NHIC is a health information referral service. It is a database of more than 1,000 organizations and government offices providing health information.)
NIAID: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIH: National Institutes of Health - Health Information
NIH: National Institutes of Health - Research and Training
Administered by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, this search engine can be used to identify both commission-accredited and non-accredited health care organizations. For commission-accredited institutions, a summarized quality report indicating the organization’s name, accredited programs, address, sites, and services is available.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
State of New Jersey, Dept. of Health and Senior Services
State of New Jersey, Dept. of Health & Senior Services: Center for Health Statistics
Survey of Health Care Consumers
Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace
Trends in Health Care Costs and Spending
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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