- Area Resource File (ARF)--The ARF is a database of health resources
data, measured at the county level for over 6,000 indicators. The information includes measures of employment in
various health professions; availability of health facilities; and frequency of utilization; hospital and Medicare
expenditures.
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS)--The BRFSS was established by the Centers for Disease Control to provide data on
personal behaviors that present health risks (e.g. alcohol and tobacco consumption, exercise
patterns, dietary issues). The site provides both time-series data at the national and state levels
for various categories of "behavioral risk" and also microdata files from which the national and state
estimates are produced.
- Cancer Statistics Review (CSR)--This
site is hosted by the National Cancer Institute. The Surveillance,
Epidemiology, and End Results database (SEER) allows access
to numerous cancer statistics and databases as well as to
some limited online analysis.
- Canadian Institute
for Health Information (CIHI)--This site contains various
reports and a limited number of databases on healthcare in
Canada.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--
The website for the CDC includes a section devoted to
data and statistics at
both the national and state levels. The
CDC's A-Z topic index is also useful for
locating quantitative information on particular topics.
- CDC Wonder--This site
is hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and is a portal
to numerous studies concerning health-related topics such
as AIDS/STDs, risk behaviors (the Behavioral Risk Surveillance
System), mortality and natality statistics. There are several
online data tools as well as a link to the SEER database.
- Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)--
The DHS is a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development to promote
better gathering of survey data on health issues pertaining to family life and reproductive health
in developing countries. Note
that registration and application are required to access survey data files.
- Georgia Division
of Public Health--The GDPH is an excellent source for
public health data as it relates specifically to the state
of Georgia.
- Health in the United States--Health
in the United States is produced by the National Center for Health Statistics and is a yearbook
of statistics on health indicators. Data from tables in the HUS are available in both .pdf and Excel.
Note that data coverage at the state level is more limited than that for the national level.
- Health, Nutrition, and
Population Statistics (HNPStats)--HNPStats is a World Bank site with much international/comparative
time-series data on health indicators, as well as on various economic and demographic/population
measures. The interface is very similar to that of the World Development Indicators (see right).
- HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Data Base--The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database contains data on estimates of HIV/AIDS prevalence and is, to quote
the website, "a compilation of information from those studies appearing in the medical and
scientific literature, presented at international conferences, and appearing in the press."
- Human Mortality Database (HMD)--The HMD
(which requires a free registration) contains data tables with age and gender breakdowns for mortality
and life expectancy in many countries (largely from the OECD). The site also provides links to
related external sites.
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- National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)--The NCHS, which is part of the CDC website,
contains much data on various health indicators at both national and state levels.
- National Survey of Family Growth
(NSFG)--The NSFG is an on-going survey series focusing
on matters of family history and reproductive history (e.g. marital history, childbirth, usage of
contraceptives) as well as more general matters such as employment history and demographics. The
latest wave of the NSFG is also available on CD-ROM in the Data Center. Older waves are also
available via the
Social Science Electronic Data Library (see below).
- OECD Health Data--This database contains time-series data on a wide range of indicators of health status,
health expenditures and policies, and other health-related information and is available on workstations in EDC.
Coverage is from 1960 on, depending on the variable. Much of the data are also available on-line
SourceOECD.
- Social
Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)--The Social Science
Electronic Data Library is an archive of over 300 datasets
covering a variety of topic areas such as Adolescent Pregnancy, Aging,
AIDS/STD's, the American Family, Disability in the US, and Maternal
Drug Abuse. The archive is well-indexed and allows variable-level
searches. Some of the studies are also available on CD's in the Data Center. The SSEDL is also
accessible via Databases at
Emory..
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
(SAMHDA)--The SAMHDA, which is hosted by the ICPSR, provides "ready access to substance abuse and mental health
research data." The archive contains data for survey series such as the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
and Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles And Values Of Youth.
- United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)--UNICEF is a great source
of cross-national health-related data on children. Another
good site for child health data is ChildStats.
- World
Development Indicators--The World Development Indicators
website provides convenient access to over 500 indicators
on over 200 countries, including a significant amount of data
on health-related issues. The WDI is also accessible via
Databases at Emory and on CD-ROM
in the Data Center.
- World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health
Atlas--The WHO's Global Health Atlas contains a very useful
Data Query
System with country-level time-series data on health resources, disease prevalence, and
basic health indicators.
-
World Health Organization Mortality Database--The WHO's Mortality Database provides aggregated
mortality counts and cause-of-death statistics and (very large) raw data files for more advanced
analysis.
- World
Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)--WHOSIS
is a great source of data on numerous international/cross-national
health-related topics. The site also contains many links
to other sources of cross-national health data.
- World Population Prospects--
This database is produced by the United Nations' Population Division and contains cross-national
data on vital statistics (e.g. birth and death rates,
maternal mortality, population by age and gender).
- Youth Risk Behavior
Surveillance System (YRBSS)--The YRBSS is similar to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System, but focuses specifically on adolescents.
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