A Guide to U.S. Statistics Sources: Health

Research Tools & Data.

Includes datasets concerned with health and the environment.

Created by the Cornell Industrial & Labor Relations, Employment & Disability Institute, this site offers a
-- Disability Statistics interactive search tool
-- Disability Status Reports for the nation, and by state
-- a Cross-Dataset Catalog of Disability and Compensation Variables and Rehabilitation Research.

Includes core health indicators from the World Health Report for each of the 192 member countries; statistics by country or region; and statistics by topic, disease or condition, including HIV/AIDS, drug information, immunization, health personnel, population, micronutrients, alcohol, maternal mortality, etc. (WHOSIS web site)

Published by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics.
The report consists of two main sections:
-- chartbook containing text and figures that illustrates major trends in the health of Americans
-- trend tables section that contains 153 detailed data tables.
The two main components are supplemented by an
executive summary, a highlights section, an extensive appendix and reference section, and an index.

Includes core health indicators from the World Health Report for each of the 192 member countries; statistics by country or region; and statistics by topic, disease or condition, including HIV/AIDS, drug information, immunization, health personnel, population, micronutrients, alcohol, maternal mortality, etc. (WHOSIS web site)