Public Health Reference: National Health Data

over 400,000 telephone surveys of U.S. adults each year. The survey covers health-related risk behaviors, health conditions, and use of preventive services, including drug addiction, depression, and other mental/behavioral topics.

data about human health effects potentially related to exposure to environmental hazards.

Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research. Public-use data sets about deaths, cancer incidence, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, vaccinations, births, census data and many other topics are available for query.

state and selected metropolitan-level data for chronic diseases and risk factors.

Data catalog. browse a sample of CDC's popular data sets and create visualizations of data to embed on websites that update automatically when data changes.

state-level health and demographic data about adults with disabilities.

quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically.

data and surveys on healthcare access, expenditures, quality, etc.

annual updates on cancer occurrence and trends in the United States from several cancer registries (National Cancer Institute, NIH)

data on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, or on specific health care topics or settings-of-care. (HHS)

(Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)

Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary, claims, and assessment data linked by beneficiary across the continuum of care. (HHS)

(National Partnership to End Health Disparities, HHS)

(HHS)

quality of cancer care, the economic burden of cancer, geographic information systems, statistical methods, communication science, tobacco control. (National Cancer Institute, NIH)

National, regional, and state-based data on over 100 indicators from the National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN). (Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, HHS)

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well as population-based health care data on counties. (AHRQ)

National telephone survey of public knowledge and use of information about cancer. (National Cancer Institute, NIH)

annual perspective on national health issues, state by state. (United Health Foundation)

measures the impact of more than 200 common diseases and conditions on overall health and wellness by assigning each county in the United States a health metric between 0 and 1, designating the proportion of optimal health reached by the county's population. (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association)

U.S. administrative data sets that can be used in research and impact evaluation. (MIT)

100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. (Child Trends)

profiles of community initiatives working towards healthy, sustainable, and livable communities. (Institute for People Place and Possibility, IP3)

Map of health literacy data for neighborhoods throughout the U.S. (UNC)