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Public Health: Demographics & Data

U.S. Data

Behavior Risk Factors Surveillance System This link opens in a new window
The BRFSS, the world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people.
 

 CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) This link opens in a new window The CDC produces, funds, collects, and reports on data, analyses, and other types of valuable information on a wide range of health-related topics.

 
Health Services Research Information Central (HSRIC) This link opens in a new window A resource portal for health services research developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
 
Healthy People 2030 This link opens in a new windowHealthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 358 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives.

Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 358 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window

ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.

International Data

  • CancerMondial This link opens in a new window
    Provides global statistics on cancer from the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
  • Eurostat This link opens in a new window
    Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and provides statistics that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Includes data on health, social conditions, demographics, economics, the environment, etc.
  • Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) This link opens in a new window
    Provides world-wide statistics relating to agriculture, forestry & fisheries, land & water resources & use, climate, environment, population, gender, nutrition, poverty, rural development, education & health, etc.
  • Global Health Facts This link opens in a new window
    Global data on HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses.