Atlas
of United States MortalityThis site contains maps for Heart Disease, All Cancer, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Stroke, Unintentional Injury, Motor Vehicle Injuries, COPD, Pneumonia and Influenza, Diabetes, Suicide, Firearm Suicide, Liver Disease, HIV, Homicide, Firearm Homicide, All Causes. These maps require Adobe Acrobat viewers.
MMWR
data is based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. The
reporting week concludes at close of business on Friday; compiled data
on a national basis are officially released to the public on the succeeding
Friday.
Interactive MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Tables Table II for AIDS, Chlamydia, E. coli, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis C, Legionellosis, Lyme disease, Malaria, Syphilis, Tuberculosis, Rabies . Table III for vaccine-preventable diseases.
Query 122 cities mortality tables by year, week, and location.
National
Center for Health Statistics is the Federal Government's principal
vital and health statistics agency. This site contains powerful links to
FEDSTATS
provides access to more than 70 US government agencies that collect statistical
data. First access the site map, then select HEALTH to explore the following agencies:
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) (maintains the Scientific Registry for organ transplants)
Indian Health Service (IHS)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Department of Energy's Office of Environment, Safety, and Health (effects of exposure to radiation and other hazardous substances)
CDC
Wonder is a searchable database from the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention which provides a single point of access to
a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data on
mortality, natality, AIDS, and other health areas.
Combined
Health Information Database (CHID online) provides titles,
abstracts, and availability information for health information and health
education resources that are not indexed anywhere else. It has 2 search modes:
simple and detailed. Eighteen health-related topics
are indexed including:
Disease Prevention/Health Promotion Health Promotion and Education
Maternal and Child Health
Prenatal
Smoking Cessation
National Institutes
of Health (NIH) is a health research-oriented site with an option for searching
NIH Web-Space or go directly to the following--
National Cancer Institute(NCI)
Office of Alternative
Medicine
National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National
Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) works in partnership with
public health officials on topics of illness, disability, and death
caused by infectious diseases. Search
this database or go directly to
Division
of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
Division
of AIDS, STD, TB Laboratory Research
University
of Michigan ~ Documents Center
University
of North Carolina ~ Minority Health Project ~ Minority Health Database
Catalog.
University
of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) Internet Resources
University
of South Carolina ~ Cooper Science Library
University
of South Carolina ~ School of Medicine
University
of Washington ~ Sites with Health Services Research and Public
Health Information compiled by Laura Larsson, Research Librarian.
healthfinder
is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site.
It contains links to Online
Health and Medical Journals. It catalogues websites for Breast
Cancer, Domestic Violence, Immunization and Infectious Diseases, Pregnancy,
and other topics.