National Public Health Data Resources
American FactFinder: Accesses data from the Censuses of Population and Housing, the American Community Survey, and the Economic Census. Users can search Census STF databases, with metadata description, and format the results to create customized tables (or download to spreadsheets), construct reference maps to show boundaries and features for geographic entities, and produce quick thematic maps to reveal geographic patterns in statistical data.
America's Health Rankings: This United Health Foundation report provides an annual analysis of national health on a state-by-state basis and ranking of the healthiest and least healthy states. The 2008 Rankings reveal the overall health of the U.S. population has not improved for the fourth year in a row.
Anne E. Casey Foundation Kids Count Data Center: Includes county-level data in addition to city, state, and national data. Has more than 100 indicators of child well-being, including economic status, health, safety, and risk factors. You can also create your own maps, graphs, and charts.
Annual Reviews: Researchers and editors affiliated with Annual Reviews, a nonprofit organization, synthesize and filter critical reviews by leading scientists in 29 focused disciplines within Biological, Medical, Physical and Social Sciences. Public Health is among the disciplines reviewed. Annual Reviews' search feature, and abstracts can be used online by non-subscribers, while the entire article can be only accessed by subscribers.
Catalog of Administrative Data Sources for Neighborhood Indicator Systems (pdf, 47 pages): This catalogue, written in 2008 by the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership of the Urban Institute describes the sources and types of data from administrative agencies that can be used to produce local indicators. Sources are grouped into eight categories: economy, education, health, social services, safety and security, community resources and participation, housing and environment.
Child Trends: Has national trends and research data on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being including demographic, health, social and emotional development, income-assets and work, education and skills, and family and community.
Community Health Status Indicators: The Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) provides an overview of key health indicators for local communities. The CHSI report contains over 200 measures for each of the 3,141 United States counties.
County Health Rankings - Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health: Compares the overall health of a county, with the health of other counties in the state. Ranking also includes factors that contribute to health, such as health behaviors, quality of health care, and social and economic factors. This resource is from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy More than 70 agencies in the U.S. Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. This site provides easy access to the full range of county- and state-level statistics and information produced by these U.S. government agencies for public use. Among the postings are county level data on immigration, crime, and poverty estimates.
Healthy People 2010: Released in January 2000 presents 467 objectives to improve the health of Americans by the year 2010. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. Provides access to the development of the Healthy People 2020 indicators.
Kaiser State Health Facts: A project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the site provides health data on all 50 states on more than 500 health topics.
National Survey of America's Families The National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) was part of The Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) multi-year research project. It is a household survey that can be used to produce cross-sectional estimates for a wide variety of child, adult and family well-being indicators at the state level for 13 states and the nation as a whole. Data collection for the NSAF was carried out in 1997, 1999 and 2002 by Westat.
National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC): Quick Health Data Online, provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health, includes comprehensive data, for both women and men, from 1998-2004 on a variety of health related topics such as mortality, infectious and chronic diseases, mental health, reproductive health, maternal health, violence and abuse, illness prevention and access to care. You can create tables, graphs, and maps from the data.
Peristats: PeriStats is an interactive perinatal data resource developed by the March of Dimes that provides US, state, county, and city maternal and infant health data.
State of America's Children 2008 Report - Child Health and Health Coverage: The Children's Defense Fund's State of America's Children 2008 report, "Child Health and Health Coverage" provides data on uninsured children (including the race/ethnicity, age, income, family structure, parental status and citizenship breakdown of uninsured children), Medicaid and SCHIP enrollment, mothers who received early prenatal care, low birthweight, infant deaths and immunization.
