Health Statistics, a Checklist for Sources
- Library Catalog: One method of locating health statistics, including Internet Resources, is to search the Library Catalog by using Library of Congress Subject Headings, such as:
- Disease Outbreaks—History
- Diseases – Risk Factors
- Health Care Costs
- Health Risk Assessment
- Health Status Indicators
- Health Surveys—United States
- Life Expectancy
- Medical Care—United States—Statistics
- Medical Statistics
- Public Health – United States – Statistics
- Quality of Life – United States
- Risk Factors
- United States – Statistics, Medical
- Vital Statistics – United States
- World Health
- Reference books can be valuable sources of statistical information, for example:
- American Health: Demographics and Spending … Ref. Desk RA 445 .A447 2005
- Control of Communicable Diseases Manual Ref. Desk RA 643 .C66 2008
- Diabetes Sourcebook Ref. RC 660.4 .D56 2008
- Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society Ref. RC 254.5 .E48 2007 3 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Epidemiology Ref. RA 652 .E533 2008 2 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Global Health Ref. RA 441 .E53 2008 4 vols.
- Health Care State Rankings Ref. Desk RA 407.3 .H423 2008
- Health in the Americas Ref. Desk RA 407.5 .L3 .P18 2007
- Infectious Diseases Ref. RC 111 .I516 2008
- Injury Facts Ref. HA 217 .A4 2008
- International Encyclopedia of Public Health Ref. Desk RA 423 .I68 2008 6 vols.
- Pandemics and Global Health Ref. Desk RA 649 .Y65 2008
- Statistical Abstract of the United States Ref. Desk HA 202 .S73 2007
- Stroke Sourcebook Ref. RC 388.5 .S8566 2008
- Vital Statistics of the United States Ref. Desk HA 203 .V58 2008
- World Almanac and Book of Facts Ref. Desk AY 67 .N5 .W7 2008
- Indexing/abstracting databases can be used to locate health statistics journals as well as statistical information within journal articles, often in electronic format, such as:
- Academic Search Complete
- CINAHL
- Health Reference Center
- Medline
- ScienceDirect
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- SocIndex
- Wilson OmniFile
- Health Statistics Quarterly (UK) Directory of Open Access Journals
- Vital and Health Statistics (National Health Survey…) Freely Accessible Science Journals
- World Health Statistics Report Freely Accessible Journals
- Internet/World Wide Web sites for health statistics and related data:
- http://wonder.cdc.gov WONDER online databases of public health data, reports, MMWR tables
- www.cdc.gov/nchs/ National Center for Health Statistics
- www.statehealthfacts.org Kaiser Family Foundation…state health data
- www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/ NYS Department of Health
- www.globalhealth.gov U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- www.hhs.gov
- www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization
- http://data.un.org UN databases…FAO, UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, i.e., global indicators; search by country, topic, i.e., lifestyle and health…
Also search particular disease headings followed by subheading: “Risk Factors”, for example, “Breast—Cancer—Risk Factors” or “Heart Diseases in Women—Risk Factors”.
see also
Prepared by Ellen Paterson, Health Bibliographer
Updated: 9/93; 2/95; 2/96; 1/98; 6/2001; 11/2002; 8/2004; 8/2009