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Links, from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), to state and territorial health departments in the United States.
Provides a variety of reports, publications, data and statistics on matters relating to health, nutrition and population in underdeveloped countries.  Some topics covered are: health systems development; population/reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; nutrition; poverty and health, and public health.  Information can be searched by topic, country, and region.
A non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. Topics covered range from health insurance coverage, Medicaid, Medicare, state health policy to minority health, STDs, and women's health policy.
Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online.  Resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
American Public Health Association (APHA)
belongs to Fundamentals of Epidemiology Resources project
tagged association health national public by rodrigue ...on 23-JAN-07
One-stop data source for health, nutrition and population indicators from various national and international data sources. Provides direct access to more than 100 indicators, with time series for countries and country groups from 1960 to the most recent year, where data are available.
Data covers: core health indicators; mortality and health status;disease statistics; health system statistics; risk factors and health service coverage, and inequities in health.
belongs to Fundamentals of Epidemiology Resources project
tagged health international statistics by rodrigue ...on 22-JAN-07
Kaiser foundation website provides basic health facts for most countires, and includes citations and links to the data sources.

World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations specialized agency for health. Topics often include databases for data on health topics by country.

    
 

International public health agency provides data, scientific, technical, and topical information on health issues in  Latin America and Caribbean.
Directory to statistical websites on various topics ranging from Aging, Cancer to Respiratory Health and Transplants.  Nice listing of the top 5 challenges to finding data.
tagged directory health statistics by rodrigue ...on 18-NOV-06
The ISI Citation Indexes include the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.

The premier database for bibliographic coverage of biomedical literature. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Resources in all languages are represented.
Bibliographic citations with subject indexing and abstracts for the scholarly literature in population studies, family planning, and related subjects. Topics include family planning programs and technology, fertility, population law and policy, demography, maternal and child health, AIDS and other sexually transimitted diseases, reproducive health programs, women in development, primary health care communication, and population and the environment.
Holdings: 1970-present.
Comprehensive metaindex containing links to a broad range of health statistical resources.  Links are to the resources of national, internatioal, and non-profit institutions.
belongs to Fundamentals of Epidemiology Resources project
tagged Directory Health Statistics by rodrigue ...on 19-FEB-06
National Institutes of Health (NIH) is comprised of 27 Institutes and Centers. The primary mission of this Federal agency is to conduct and support medical research that will improve people's health and save lives. It investigates methods for disease prevention, causation, treatment, and cures for common and rare diseases. All of these Institutes and Centers generate reports and data in their respective areas of expertise.
Easy-to-use database allows you to generate custom reports, graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs)."  Includes more than 75 measures of child well-being.
belongs to Fundamentals of Epidemiology Resources project
tagged Adolescent Child Database Health by rodrigue ...on 18-FEB-06
Topical resources are organized by: Organizations and Agencies, Publications and Databases, and Guides.

Information resources and services in toxicology, environmental health, chemistry, HIV/AIDS, and specialized topics in minority health.

Contains links to a variety of resources on health topics.

  • Health Topics - Lists information on over 700 topics on conditions, disease, and wellness, Topics listed in alphabetical order and by the broad category of the topic.
  • Other Resources - Contains links to a variety resources such as organizations that provide health information and databases to resources covering special topics and collections. 
Meta-Search and clustering engine for Environmental Health and Toxicology. Searches for information in databases from the NLM database system, NIH, and various U.S. government and international agencies.
Principal federal health statistics gatherer with links to other databases and health-related data points. A wide variety of statistical information is gathered. 

Federal agency charged with protecting human health and the environment.  Topics range from human health and pesticides to toxic chemicals and water.  Easy search methods are: Quick Finder, which has links to terms and keywords that are frequently searched on the EPA web site, and Browse EPA Topics which has topics organized into broad categories.

The nation's principal health statistics agency compiling a wide variety of information on topics ranging from vital statistics and health status to illness and disabilityand the use of health care.