Data & Statistics Resources - Health Sciences: Populations
Health Sciences Statistics resource guide for University of Iowa students, residents, fellows & faculty
International
- Europa World PlusEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions
- Kaiser Family Foundation: Global Health PolicyInformation on global health policy, including the U.S. government’s role in global health
- Kaiser U.S. Global Health Budget TrackerContains information on U.S. government funding for global health, including both trends over time and through the appropriations process.
- NationMaster.comA massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.
- OECD iLibraryComparative statistics from the 30 member states (industrialized nations) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics from other countries.
- UN DataAccess UN country member profiles for data about demographics, economic, social, and environmental variables.
- World Health Organization: Data & StatisticsWHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
Iowa
- American Fact FInderU.S. Census Bureau
- Better Data for Better HealthRobert Woods Johnson Foundation
- Iowa Community Indicators Program (ICIP)Research and data about local economic and demographic issues.
- State Library of Iowa: State Data CenterPopulation, housing, business and government statistics about Iowa, including data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Iowa state agencies, and other state and federal sources.
- State Health Registry of Iowa: Iowa Cancer RegistryThe Iowa Cancer Registry (ICR) is a population-based cancer
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U.S. Population
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - BRFSSContains prevalence and trends data for health behaviors.
- CDC: FastStats - Statistics by TopicQuick access to statistics on topics of public health importance. Organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
- CDC: Health, United States, 2015Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics.
- CDC: Sortable StatsAn interactive data set comprised of behavioral risk factors and health indicators. Compiles state level data for the 50 states, DC, and U.S. territories from various published CDC and federal sources into a format that allows users to view, sort, and analyze data at state, regional, and national levels. This tool is intended to serve as a resource in the promotion of policy, system, and environmental changes.
- CDC: WONDERUtilize an ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data. Reports and other query systems are also available.
- 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.
- Better Data for Better Health - Robert Wood Johnson FoundationHealth data resources for analysis of the many factors which shape health in communities, and local efforts to achieve better health for all.
Includes County Health Rankings and Roadmaps, which compares the health of nearly all counties in the United States to others within its own state, and supports coalitions tackling the social, economic and environmental factors that influence health. - Current Population ReportsMuch of the current population data is derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which is a sample household survey of the noninstitutional civilian population in the United States. Its primary task is to produce monthly statistics on unemployment and the labor force, which are published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its monthly bulletin Employment and Earnings.
- Kaiser Health Tracking PollThe Kaiser Foundation’s provides consistent and up-to-date information on the public’s opinions, knowledge, and experiences with the U.S. health care system. The Tracking Poll has been a primary tool for monitoring all aspects of public opinion on the Affordable Care Act, including the public’s experiences under the law and their views on its provisions and on efforts to repeal and replace it. The Tracking Poll also captures the public’s views and experiences with Medicare, Medicaid, health costs, prescription drugs and other health issues that are in the news or are driving national and state policy debates.
- Minnesota Population Center: Integrated Health Interview SeriesAnnual harmonized data on people in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey from the 1960s to the present
- U.S. Census Data This link opens in a new windowThe platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau – the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. In addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U.S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey. Data sources can be filtered by Topics, Geography, Years, Surveys, and Code systems.