Public Health: Statistics
Public Health resource guide for University of Iowa students, residents, fellows & faculty
Statistical Resources
For more resources go to the Health Sciences Statistics resources guide.
- CDC: Community Health Improvement NavigatorThe database allows the user to easily search for multisector, collaborative, evidence-based interventions to address the underlying causes of the greatest morbidity and mortality in the United States: tobacco use and exposure, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
- CDC National Health Interview SurveyThe National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has monitored the health of the nation since 1957. NHIS data are collected through personal household interviews. Survey results have been instrumental in providing data to track health status, health care access, and progress toward achieving national health objectives.
- CDC WONDERProvides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data.
- Current Index to StatisticsThe Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from over 160 core journals that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical co
- Global Health Data ExchangeThe Global Health Data Exchange contains information about over 7,000 demographic, global public health and health-related data sources.
- ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social ResearchICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
- LexisNexis StatisticalProvides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Incorporates ASI subject
- National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.
- National Library of Medicine (NLM): HSRR (Health Services and Sciences Research Resources) - ARCHIVEDInformation about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health with links to PubMed.
- U.S. Census BureauProvides access to data about the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas.