Health Statistics

Latest national trends & research on over 100 key indicators of child & youth well being.

National & state-level data on child health indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health & the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.

Measures of child well being; analyze data by race/ethnicity & compare data across states. From Brandeis University.

Contains measures of child well-being across the U.S. From the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

From the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Datasets for use in research & design of tobacco prevention & control programs.

Describes the nutritional status of low-income infants & children enrolled in federally funded maternal & child health & nutrition programs. From the Michigan Dept. of Health & Human Services.

Fact sheet from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

From the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.

Studies on a variety of topics. Search by race/ethnicity & geographic area. From the National Institute on Aging, NIH.

Search by topic or location.

Data from 1984 - 2000.

See also the National Home & Hospice Care Survey (through 2007).

Report from Population Reference Bureau.

Maternal & infant health data.

From the Office on Women's Health. Provides state & county-level data available by gender, race, & ethnicity in 11 categories.

Topics include health status, insurance & Medicaid coverage, use of preventive services, sexual health, maternal & infant health, & abortion policies. Many indicators provide state-level information for women of different racial & ethnic groups.

Yearly data books for download.