Statistics Resources 

Abortion

• Abortion (Guttmacher Institute) - includes many links to fact sheets, articles, reportsand more...

Accidents and Injuries

• National Trauma Data Bank Reports - American College of Surgeons
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - injury fact sheets
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - state injury profiles
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - crash stats
• National Safety Council - factsheets

Aging

• Administration on Aging - Statistics on the Aging Population
• AgingStats.gov - Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention – Healthy Aging – Health Statistics/Research
• Social Security Administration - Office of Research, Evaluation and Statistics

AIDS

• AIDS - Maryland - Maryland AIDS Administration
• AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control
• Countries and Regions data - HIV InSite, University of California, San Francisco
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base - Centers for Disease Control
• MARYLAND - 2007 Profile - National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
• UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Allergy and Asthma

• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Asthma Statistics
• American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - Allergy Statistics
• Asthma in America

Alzheimer's Disease

• Alzheimer's Association
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Births

• Teenage pregnancy, birth, abortion rates by state - Alan Guttmacher Institute

Burns

• American Burn Association

Cancer

• Cancer Data in Maryland - Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Reports on cancer incidence and mortality; surveys of cancer risk and cancer screening; Maryland hospital discharge data; and tobacco-related data.
• Cancer Mondial - International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - Provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held and managed by the Descriptive Epidemiology Groups of IARC.
• Cancer Mortality Maps and Graphs - National Cancer Institute
• Cancer Statistics - National Cancer Institute
• National Cancer Data Base - American College of Surgeons
• Statistics for 2009 - American Cancer Society
• Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program - National Cancer Institute

Child Abuse

• Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities: Statistics and Interventions - Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Child Maltreatment Reports (1995 through 2006) - U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Total Estimated Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States - Prevent Child Abuse America

Children

• 2004 Maryland KIDS COUNT Factbook - Advocates for Children and Youth
• America's Children in Brief 2008 - Also links to previous reports back to 1997
• Care of Children and Adolescents in U.S. Hospitals - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Childinfo - UNICEF
• ChildStats.gov - Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
• KIDS COUNT 2008 Data Book Online - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• State of the World's Children 2009 - UNICEF

Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery

• Plastic Surgery Procedural Statistics - American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Crime

• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - Brings together data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
• U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Dental Health

• Oral and Dental Health - National Center for Health Statistics
• Survey and Economic Research on Dentistry - American Dental Association

Diabetes

• Diabetes Statistics - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• Economic and Health Costs of Diabetes

Diet, Obesity, Weight Loss

• National Center for Health Statistics

Disability

• Disability Statistics Center, University of California, San Francisco

Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

• Surveillance Reports l Epidemiologic Data Manuals l Directories - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• Trends and Statistics - National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Applied Studies
  • Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Gastrointestinal Disease

• Digestive Diseases Statistics - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Health Care Financing

• Research, Statistics, Data & Systems - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• HCUPnet - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - A free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.

Health Personnel

• National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis

Heart Disease and Stroke

• Heart Disease Facts and Statistics - CDC
• Statistics - American Heart Association

Hospitals

• Data and Surveys - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• HCUPnet - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - A free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency department utilization.
• Research and Trends - American Hospital Association - Provides the latest research and analysis of important and emerging trends in the hospital and health care field
• AAMC Survey of Resident/Fellow Stipends, Benefits - Association of American Medical Colleges

Kidney and Urologic Disease

• Facts and Statistics - American Society of Nephrology
• Statistics - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Medicare and Medicaid

• Research, Statistics, Data & Systems - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Mental Illness

• Mental Health Disorders - National Center for Health Statistics
• The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Minority Health

• Data/Statistics - Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services, USA
• Division of Epidemiology - Indian Health Service

Occupational Illness and Injury

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Pharmacy

• Facts and Resources - National Association of Chain Drug Stores

Pregnancy

• U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics - Alan Guttmacher Institute
• Maryland PRAMS - Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Reports - Maryland Family Health Administration

Radiation Health Effects

• Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource - U. S. Department of Energy

Respiratory Diseases

• Data and Statistics - American Lung Association

Rural Health

• North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• STD Data and Statistics - Centers for Disease Control

Smoking

• National Center for Health Statistics
• Smoking and Tobacco Use - Data and Statistics - Office on Smoking and Health, CDC

Social Security

• Research, Statistics and Policy Analysis - Social Security Administration, Office of Policy

Spinal Cord Injuries

• National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center

Transplantation

• Data - Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Surveillance Report - CDC

Women's Health

• Health of Maryland Women, 2008 - Family Health Administration
• Facts and Stats - Office of Women's Health, CDC
• Women's Health USA 2008 - Maternal and Child Health Bureau