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Health Statistics on the Web

 A Selected List of Health Data Tools and Statistics
 

State and Local Data Sets and Statistics

• County Health Rankings:  https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ 
• City-Data (Advameg, Inc.): https://www.city-data.com/
• U. S. Census Bureau (enter zip code into search box): https://data.census.gov/cedsci/
• State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation): https://www.statehealthfacts.org   
• America’s Health Rankings (United Health Foundation): https://www.americashealthrankings.org/
• Tennessee Department of Health--Health Statistics: https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/statistics.html
• Florida Department of Health--Health Statistics: https://www.floridahealth.gov/statistics-and-data/index.html

CDC Data and Statistics

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System:  https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
• CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research):  https://wonder.cdc.gov/
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey:  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System:  https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html

U. S. Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/ 

SAMHSA - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: https://samhsa.gov/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): https://www.cms.gov/

• World Health Organization – Statistical Information System (WHOSIS): https://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm 
• Global Health Facts.org: https://globalhealthfacts.org
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): https://www.paho.org/

Health Statistics Portals/Gateways 

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

• Health Data Tools and Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

• FastStats
• https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/