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1.Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online
A resource for free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 US states. View state profiles or compare state data by choosing from over 200 topics.
URL:http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/
2.HRSA State Profiles
Health Resources and Services Administration's directed national health programs. Extensive information, by state. (US)
URL:http://stateprofiles.hrsa.gov/
3.Compilation of Complementary/Alternative Healthcare Data
This manual attempts to facilitate efficient access to data from federally funded large-scale surveys which contain specific reference to chiropractic and complementary/alternative healthcare. [Short survey to be completed before access to manual - ed]
URL:http://w3.palmer.edu/carber/manualhome.asp
4.Resource Center Fast Facts
Compilations of statistics from federal sources, arranged by disease or geographic area. Includes links to more in-depth online resources. From the National Center for Health Statistics.
URL:http://www.aha.org/resource/rc_home.asp
5.AHRQ: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Largest all-payer collection of hospital inpatient care statistical information in the United States. Includes a national database and the database of 22 states.
URL:http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/
6.HCUPnet
A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level.
URL:http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/hcupnet.htm
7.Food Surveys Research Group
Information relating to food consumption surveys conducted by USDA
URL:http://www.barc.usda.gov/bhnrc/foodsurvey/home.htm
8.Safety and Health Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on the number of workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.
URL:http://www.bls.gov/iif/
9.CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
The worlds largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States.
URL:http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/brfss/
10.National Center for Health Statistics
Provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality. Public use data files are available for download.
URL:http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
11.Safety and Health Statistics
The statistics unit provides information on workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities that occur in Connecticut.
URL:http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/osha/shstats.htm
12.Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses
Report from the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. "Microbial pathogens in food cause an estimated 6.5-33 million cases of human illness and up to 9,000 deaths in the United States each year."
URL:http://www.ers.usda.gov/epubs/pdf/aer741/
13.The National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems
Health information to enhance the public's health. FAQs discuss vital statistics and who is collecting and accessing them.
URL:http://www.naphsis.org/
14.National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
Serves as the statutory public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the area of health data and statistics.
URL:http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/
15.Country Health Profiles - Pan American Health Organization
Data and analysis on health and related sociological factors in the nations of the Americas.
URL:http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm
16.SSBR: Health Statistics
Health care statistics from the White House.
URL:http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/health.html
17.World Health Organization Statistical Information System
Health and health-related statistical information.
URL:http://www.who.int/whosis/
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