DataSets and Statistics

Various health status, health conditions, health-related behaviors, health care access and health insurance coverage information. Gender, age, race/ethnicity, urban/rural and other descriptors. The files are available in a variety of data formats, including SAS, SPSS, and STATA data formats.

Access to over 50 datasets on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others.

Run by the CDC, covers all aspects of health, and also includes mortality and natality, exercise, marriage, injury and access to health care.

Many of the same statistics you will find elsewhere, but clearly organized so sleuthing for a topic may be productive at this site. Note the "Health Data Tools & Statistics" link in the left column under topics.

The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a data catalog created and supported by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington.