NUR431 : Community Health Nursing

Resources providing population profiles as well as data on specific populations, such as women, infants, and older adults.

Includes resources for state, local, U.S. and international statistics.

Links to government sites, local newspapers, and much more.

Vols. 1-46

Effective with Vol. 47, No. 1, U.S., full text online.

From the National Center for Health Statistics.

From the National Cancer Institute.

Designed to provide a graphical "accurate description of how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States."

Data on population from the U.S. Census Bureau. May search by state, county, city, town, or zip code.

Find population, housing, economic, and geographic data. Search for demographics by specific place or ZIP code.

From the National Center for Health Statistics. "...tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns."

From the University of Michigan; includes links to specific population data resources under "Data Pages."

Data provided by the U.S. Government Administration for Community Living

Available from the Office of Research on Women's Health.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - NHANES;

National Health Interview Survey - NHIS;

and the National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data.

Current Population Survey and Current Population Reports

Find population, housing, economic, and geographic data. Search for demographics by specific place or ZIP code.

From the CDC Wonder Search Engine of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"... interactive data tool, allows users to explore the data and technical information related to the Healthy People 2020 objectives."

From the Department of Health and Human Services.

Provided as a public service by StatSoft, Inc.

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A well organized site that provides access to statistics by topic, such as Men's Health, Women's Health, Allergies, and much more.

A gateway to statistics available through U.S. agencies.

By Dan Melnick, PhD; from the National Library of Medicine.

Includes information on health insurance coverage, HIV/AIDS, minorities, health providers, and women's health.

Includes a section on State Rankings.

From the National Center for Health Statistics.

Includes state health population data.

From the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Includes statistics.

From FastStats, National Center for Health Statistics. Includes links to the data sources.

From the U.S. Department of Labor.

"...presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics."

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From "Vital Statistics of the United States, Volume II, Mortality, Part A, Section 6 contains life tables. This section is also issued annually as a separate publication. The life tables provide life expectancy data"; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing.

From the National Center for Health Statistics - NCHS.

"Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System is an interactive system that provides customized injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions"; from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.