Finding Data and Statistics: Health

Provides data on U.S. AIDS cases reported at the local and state level. Includes a table-building function that allows the user to sort data by demographic and other variables.

Provides data from telephone surveys on chronic health problems, use of preventative health services, and health risk behaviors. Data collected from every state, the District of Columbia, and three U.S. territories.

Provides data on cancer incidence and survival rates in the U.S.

Provides CDC data on a wide range of health issues in the U.S.

Allows users to organize and run statistical analyses on data related to a range of health issues in the U.S.

Provides health profiles for every county in the U.S., including information about morbidity and mortality for a range of health issues, as well as information about other community factors that can affect health. Interface allows the user to compare counties across these variables.

Provides data on child health issues collected from parents via survey by the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative. Data is organized at the regional, state, and national level.

Collects demographic and health survey information from a wide range of nations.

Interactive database of fatal injuries reported in the U.S.

Collects data from an ongoing longitudinal study of unmarried parents and their children conducted through Princeton University. Includes a range of demographics, economic, and health data.

Monitors progress toward achieving the World Health Organization's Sustainable Development Goals in 194 countries.

Provides data on health and healthcare systems in the U.S., collected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Provides U.S. hospital care data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services. Allows users to track healthcare delivery and patient outcomes at the local, state, and national level.

Provides health data collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, including U.S. statistics on disability, fertility, health insurance, and hospital finances.

Collects data from a U.S. Census Bureau project to track HIV/AIDS incidence internationally.

"The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions" (International Narcotics Control Board). The INCB provides international data on drug abuse.

Provides community-level health data from the state of Massachusetts, collected by the state's Executive Office of Health and Human Services.

Provides U.S. survey data on healthcare utilization, healthcare cost, and health insurance coverage collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Provides several microdata series related to demographic data. Includes the decennial census, American Community Survey, Current Population Survey, international data, and other MPC projects.

Survey data on changes in values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of American youth dating back to 1975.

"[A] multi-disciplinary research data archive focusing on the study of lives over time. It is a national repository for social science data on human development and social change, especially data that illuminates women's lives and issues of concern to women." (Henry A. Murray Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University)

Collects U.S. data on physician's office visits dating back to the 1970s.

Collects U.S. statistics on health, healthcare costs, and healthcare coverage.

Collects survey data on health, health-related behaviors. and beliefs about health issues among U.S. college students.

Provides statistics on rates of mental illness, mental health treatment, and costs related to mental health services in the U.S.

Provides data from a U.S. study tracking health and socioeconomic factors in a cohort of participants from adolescence to young adulthood.

Presents data from a yearly survey on substance abuse in the U.S. among those 12 and older.

Tracks statistics on births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriage, and divorce in the U.S; data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Health Statistics section of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s online library. Features all of the OECD's papers, books, and statistics on this topic, across countries.

Provides links to data sources for studies on an array of demographic issues.

Collects U.S. data on infant and maternal mortality, as well as data on medical complications related to pregnancy, health behaviors during pregnancy. and postpartum health.

Provides data from over 90 countries on demographic and health variables.

Provides health data from all 50 U.S. states, including information on prevalence of various health problems, healthcare cost and access, number of providers, and healthcare coverage.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a subset of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. They collect data on mental health and substance abuse issues in the U.S.

A collection of downloadable files and links to publicly available data from the CDC's Division of Vital Statistics, described earlier in this guide.

Interactive CDC database of injury reports in the United States. includes data on both fatal and nonfatal injuries, as well as violent deaths, and costs related to injuries.

"The World Drug Report provides an annual overview of the major developments in drug markets for the various drug categories, ranging from production to trafficking, including development of new routes and modalities, as well as consumption."

Collects data on health-risk behaviors related to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.

Provided by the World Bank, World DataBank allows you to locate, analyze, and visualize time series data on myriad topics.

Provides data on pregnancy and childhood illness among rural Guatemalans, as well as the mediating effects of poverty,health beliefs, ethnicity and social support on health outcomes.

Collects data on health, health behaviors, and health care access in the U.S. from 1963 to the present.

Presents survey data collected by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Statistics Canada. This data covers questions about health and access to healthcare in the two countries.