Health Statistics

Understand & compare the health status & health risks in selected cities. Created by the NYU Dept. of Population Health, with support from the RWJ Foundation. Launched in early 2017 in four cities: Flint, MI; Kansas City, KS; Providence, RI; & Waco, TX, new cities will be added soon.

Covers a variety of diseases & conditions.

Latest statistical portraits of how health care is delivered in the US.

Information on US health care programs and the populations they serve.

An annual report on trends in health statistics from the CDC.

An inventory of publicly available data sets and resources from various Dept. of Health & Human Resources vaults, including the CMS, CDC, FDA & NIH.

From the National Cancer Institute.

A harmonized set of data & documentation based on material in the public use files of the National Health Interview Survey.

See also National Health & Nutrition Examination (WebMIRS), a graphical Java program providing access to the NHANES II & III databases of medical survey data & x-ray images. From the CDC.

Provides the most complete data on births & deaths in the U.S.

The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, & economic organization of the US. Published 1878 - 2012.

See also the Healthy People Databases for each decade.