You see them all the time, in newspapers and on TV – the number of people who were in the hospital last year, the percentage of kids who are overweight, the rate at which people are catching the flu, the average cost of a medical procedure. These are all types of health statistics.
Health statistics are numbers about some aspect of health. Statistics relating to births, deaths, marriages and divorces are sometimes called "vital statistics." Researchers use statistics to see patterns of diseases in groups of people. This can help in figuring out who is at risk for certain diseases, finding ways to control diseases and deciding which diseases should be studied.
- FASTATS: A to Z(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/
- Health Data for All Ages (HDAA)(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm
- Health, United States, 2006(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
- Survival Rates Improve for Kids with Blood Cancers(09/10/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_69135.html
- Retail Clinics Attracting Those without Regular Doctors(09/10/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_69132.html
- Lung Cancer Rates among Nonsmokers Not on the Rise(09/09/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_69080.html
- Americans Made Over 1 Billion Hospital and Doctor Visits in 2006(08/06/2008, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2008/r080806.htm
- More News on Health Statistics http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alphanews_h.html#healthstatistics
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
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Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths: Provisional Data for 2007(National Center for Health Statistics) - Links to PDF - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_21.pdf
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Deaths: Final Data for 2005(National Center for Health Statistics) - Large PDF file - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_10.pdf
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Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2006(National Center for Health Statistics) - Large PDF file - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_16.pdf
- Expanded Health Data from the New Birth Certificate, 2005(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Large PDF file - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_13.pdf
- FASTATS: Births/Natality(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/births.htm
- FASTATS: Deaths-Leading Causes(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
- FASTATS: How Healthy Are We?(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/healthy.htm
- FASTATS: Life Expectancy(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lifexpec.htm
- Health Care Indicators(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) - http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicareprogramratesstats/03_hlthcrinds.asp?
- PeriStats(March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation) - http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats/
- State Health Facts Online(Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation) - http://www.statehealthfacts.org/
- State Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities(Bureau of Labor Statistics) - http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshstate.htm
- Welcome to WISQARS (Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
- National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports 2007(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/qrdr07.htm
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Epidural anaesthesia and survival after intermediate-to-high risk non-cardiac surgery: a... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18692893&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: Assessing outcomes in prostate cancer clinical trials: a twenty-first century... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18661513&tool=MedlinePlus
- Article: Lies, damned lies and ... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18655392&tool=MedlinePlus
- Health Statistics -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=statistics+as+topic[majr:noexp]+OR+survival+analysis[majr]+OR+delivery+of+health+care/sn[majr:noexp]+OR+health+facilities/sn[majr:noexp]+OR+national+center+for+health+statistics+u.s.[mh]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+english[la]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+decision+making[majr]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt])+NOT+(vital+statistics[mh]+OR+letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
- Vital statistics (U.S.) -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=vital+statistics[majr]+AND+english[la]+AND+united+states[mh]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+systematic[sb]+OR+guideline[pt])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
- Statistical Agencies (International)(Bureau of the Census) - http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
- Bureau of the Census - http://www.census.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/
- World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/en/
- MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
- Weekly Epidemiological Record(World Health Organization) - http://www.who.int/wer/en/
- How NCHS Protects Your Privacy(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/policy/confiden.htm
- FASTATS: Child Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/children.htm
- FASTATS: Infant Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infant_health.htm
- FASTATS: Adolescent Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/adolescent_health.htm
- FASTATS: Men's Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/mens_health.htm
- FASTATS: Women's Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/womens_health.htm
- FASTATS: Older Persons' Health(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/older_americans.htm
- Multiple Causes of Death in Old Age(National Center for Health Statistics) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/09causes.htm
- Older Americans 2008: Health Care(Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics) - http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2008_Documents/Health_Care.aspx
- Older Americans 2008: Health Risks and Behavior(Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics) - http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2008_Documents/Health_Risks.aspx
- Older Americans 2008: Health Status(Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics) - http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2008_Documents/Health_Status.aspx
- Older Americans 2008: Population(Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics) - http://www.agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/Data/2008_Documents/Population.aspx
- Health System - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthsystem.html