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Health

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Data & Surveys
Data on health care expenditures, utilization, and hospital statistics.

American Hospital Association Hospital Statistics
Statistical tables based on data from the Association's Annual Survey of Hospitals; includes measures such as utilization, personnel, revenue, and expenses.
Dewey Library - Stacks | RA981.A2.A6234 (latest on Reference)

CDC Wonder
Point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Contains public-use data sets ready for use in spreadsheet programs or statistical and geographic analysis packages.

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
Statistics on incidence of disease and disability; risk factors; and deaths by cause, gender, age, and region.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | RA441.G5613 2006

ICPSR Substance Abuse and Mental Health Archive
ICPSR special topic archive providing access to substance abuse and mental health research data.

ICPSR Health and Medical Care Archive
ICPSR special topic archive containing data collected by health and health care research projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Kaiser Network Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

National Center for Health Statistics
Federal source for health statistics for the United States.

OECD Health Data
Provides comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. Covers indicators on utilization, expenditure, health status, causes of mortality, and disease incidence.

Vital and Health Statistics Series
Series of health statistics monographs that cover U.S. and international mortality, natality, nutrition, health care expenditures, and other topics. Also known as the "Rainbow Series."
To find these in the Libraries, search in Barton putting Vital and Health Statistics in as a series title.
Dewey Library - Basement | SuDoc #HE20.6209. Coverage varies by series; select series held back to the 1950s.

Vital and Health Statistics Series: an Annotated Checklist and Index to the Publications of the "Rainbow Series"
Lists, annotates and indexes reports published as part of the Vital and Health Statistics Series listed above.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | HA214.W27 1991

Vital Statistics of the United States
Annual reports of detailed vital statistics data including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce.
Dewey Library - Basement | HA203.A22 | 1959-1994
Library Storage Annex - Stacks | HA203.A22 | 1937-1958 incomplete

Vital Statistics of the United States. Births, Life Expectancy, Deaths and Selected Health Data
Annual reports of detailed vital statistics data including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | HA203.V587

World Pharmaceutical Markets
Includes statistics on health care expenditures and health status for over 60 countries.

The World Health Report: Report of the Director-General
World Health Organization assessment of global health, including statistics relating to all countries; each year, focuses on a specific topic.
Dewey Library - Stacks | RA8.A265 (latest on Reference)

WHO Statistical Information System
Guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.