Library Services: Health Promotion: Data/Statistics

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Recently U.S. Government information, which has formerly been freely available, has been disappearing from websites. If any of the government links below (sites with .gov or .mil domains) do not work, or no longer contain information you know they should have, click on the link below for tools to help you find archived or mirrored versions of the site.

Finding Archived Government Websites

Data/Statistics

These sites are good sources for facts, figures, and other data on health realted issues.

CalorieLab
Provides nutritional information for over 70,000 foods and approximately 500 restaurants.
CDC WONDER
WONDER (Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research )is a collection of public health information databases from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health
Contains a huge amount of data on hundreds of child health indicators from both the state and national level.
Global Health Data Exchange
An extremely rich source of population health data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). If you are doing anything related to the health of populations at the state, country (U.S. or other countries) or international level be sure to take a look at this source.
National Center for Health Statistics
This is the primary agency responsible for collecting American health statistics.
State Health Facts
Provides extensive data on a wide variety of topics, such as health costs, health status, health insurance, medicare, and minority health for all 50 states.

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