Public Health Statistics
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How to find health statisticsTechnology has markedly improved access to public health statistics. Many key health statistics are now available online at no cost, although they can often be difficult to locate. This tutorial will familiarize you with a broad array of the most important sources of online public health statistics. It will also present a structured search process for locating and evaluating health statistics online.
Detroit
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City of Detroit Health Department Health Statisticshttps://vitalstats.michigan.gov/osr/chi/FullTableList.asp?REGIONtype=2®ioncode=09&Submit_LHD=Tables
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Data Driven Detroit (D3)D3 provides free public access to a variety of processed datasets, maps, visualizations, and other tools. This portal contains data on health, environment, public safety, and more.
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Detroit's Open Data PortalContains datasets on water testing, school-based health centers, STIs, and more.
Michigan
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Michigan Environmental Public Health TrackingStatics about environmental topics like air quality, drinking water, and ticks, health conditions related to environmental pollution like lead poisoning and asthma, and population characteristics.
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Michigan GIS Open DataHere you can browse, search, preview, and download a variety of Michigan geospatial datasets. Browse by category or enter key words in the search box to locate a dataset of interest. You can then read its description to learn more and explore attributes before downloading.
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Michigan Health & Hospital Association: Verify Mi CareVerifyMiCare is maintained by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association and contains quality and cost information for hospitals across Michigan.
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Michigan's Open Data PortalView and analyze data provided by a variety of Michigan state agencies in one easy to view catalog. Create charts and graphs, filter and summarize data, and develop maps with the open data. Includes data on health and environment.
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SEMCOG's Open Data PortalSEMCOG focuses on Southeast Michigan's water quality, transportation system, and economic development.
National
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American Community Survey This link opens in a new windowProvides estimates of housing, social, and economic characteristics. Issue for 1996 reports data from a limited number of sample sites sample sites will be increased every year until future issues report data for all states, as well as for cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and various population groups data presentation may be customized for viewing and saving.
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CDC National Center for Health StatisticsBoth public and restricted datasets available. CDC Wonder tool allows for ad hoc exploration of numerous public health datasets, inlcuding AIDS, cancer, births, air quality, and Healthy People 2010 data.
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Data & Statistics about the U.S.Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new windowICPSR is a serves member colleges and universities by providing access to a large archive of machine-readable social science data, training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis, and resources that facilitate the use of advanced computer technology by social scientists. The primary mission of the ICPSR Web site is to provide to the social science research community efficient search capabilities to facilitate quick and easy access to data.
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National Center for Health Statistics This link opens in a new windowThe NCHS is the Nation's principal health statistics agency. The NCHS is rich source of information about America 's health offering a feature called FASTATS (or fast statistics) for quick access to health statistics along with numerous other data tools. A unique public resource for health information-a critical element of public health and health policy.
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Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowThis resource is made possible through the partnership of the Center for Urban Studies and the University Library System. Use Social Explorer to visualize and interact with data, create maps, charts, reports and downloads that help you reach your goals. Explore hundreds of thousands of built-in data indicators related to demography, economy, health, politics, environment, crime and more. Easily add your own data for further impact.
Global Health Information and Statistics
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WHO Global Health ObservatoryGlobal health statistics and data on a variety of diseases, including reports on many global health themes and problems.
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Global Health Data Exchange"The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a catalog of global health and demographic data. The goal of the GHDx is to help people locate data by cataloging information about data including the topics covered, by providing links to data providers or explaining how to acquire the data, and in cases where we have permission, providing the data directly for download. Use the GHDx to research population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health."
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Data.gov.uk"data...published by government departments and agencies, public bodies and local authorities."
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Canadian Open Data PortalData portal for Canadian government information.
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European Union Open Data PortalOpenly available datasets from European Union governmental bodies.
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Global Open Data Index"The Global Open Data Index (GODI) is the annual global benchmark for publication of open government data, run by the Open Knowledge Network."
Data Repositories
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Registry of Research Data RepositoriesSearchable index of over 2,000 disciplinary and institutional data repositories.
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ICPSR"An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields." -
ZenodoEuropean data repository developed by CERN.
"The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for EC funded research. CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability and Zenodo was launched in May 2013." -
Figshare"figshare allows users to upload any file format to be previewed in the browser so that any research output, from posters and presentations to datasets and code, can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow." Figshare hosts research data in many formats from around the world.
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Harvard DataverseRepository containing over 75,000 datasets in the dataverse.
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DATA.govPortal to data collected and made available by the U.S. government. Some state and municipal data, and data from NGOs, included as well.
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Dryad Digital Repository"The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes."
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Open Science FrameworkSearch for files and datasets, and contact authors for permission to use.
Public Health Research Centers
NIAAA conducts research focused on improving the treatment and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems to reduce the enormous health, social, and economic consequences of this disease.
NIAID research strives to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent the myriad infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases that threaten millions of human lives.
NICHD leads research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.
The mission of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is to discover how the environment affects people in order to promote healthier lives.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services agency responsible for health and biomedical information and research.
NIMH provides national leadership dedicated to understanding, treating, and preventing mental illnesses through basic research on the brain and behavior, and through clinical, epidemiological, and services research.
NIMHD has a long history, beginning in 1990 as an Office and later designated a Center in 2000. The mission of NIMHD is to lead scientific research to improve minority health and eliminate health disparities. To accomplish its mission, NIMHD plans, reviews, coordinates, and evaluates all minority health and health disparities research and activities of the National Institutes of Health; conducts and supports research in minority health and health disparities; promotes and supports the training of a diverse research workforce; translates and disseminates research information; and fosters innovative collaborations and partnerships.
The NIH Clinical Center, America’s research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first-in-human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state-of-the-art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.
FIC promotes and supports scientific research and training internationally to reduce disparities in global health.
The mission of NCATS is to catalyze the generation of innovative methods and technologies that will enhance the development, testing, and implementation of diagnostics and therapeutics across a wide range of human diseases and conditions.
The mission of NCCIH is to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care.