Research Guides: Health Promotion & Education Resources: Health Statistics

Tutorials for Finding Health Statistics

Findiing and Using Health Statistics This is a short online course produced by the National Library of Medicine. The course covers the importance, use and sources of health statistics and the challenges and stratigies of finding health statistics.

Listed here are web sites that include extensive lists of health statistics resources.

Statistics Sources: Health Sciences Guide, University of Washington Provides a comprehensive listing of United States, international and some regional health statistics.
Finding Health Statistics: Getting Started Guide, Loma Linda University This site provides a comprehensive listing of Web accessible sources of health statistics, including the following categories of statistics: aging,children, disability, diseases, health insurance, mental, oral and women.
Health Statistics & Data: National & Int'l Statistics Guide, UC Berkeley This is an extensive listing of health statistics resources that includes a smattering of general and demographic statistics resources.
Health Data and Statistics Guide, UCLA Library Provides health statistics sources broken down by geography (U.S., international and some regional and local) and population (children, elderly and minority). The guide also provides a useful introduction to finding and using statistics.