HLTH 4609: Needs Assessment and Program Planning: Health Statistics Sources

[From the site]: For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

The National Center for Health Statistics' website is a rich source of information about America's health. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, it compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people. It is a unique public resource for health information - a critical element of public health and health policy.

The GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display or download data.

The MAP team have assembled a unique spatial database of linked information based on medical intelligence and satellite-derived climate data to constrain the limits of malaria transmission and the largest ever archive of community-based estimates of parasite prevalence.

Comprehensive statewide and local data on stroke, heart disease, and their risk factors.

Over 1300 data items from state and federal agencies. Historical data and projections, 1960s to 2030. State, county, municipality, township, tract, block group, and block coverage.

"The purpose of this annual publication is to heighten awareness of the health of our children by summarizing data on important child health indicators." Produced by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.

Data on reported communicable disease cases by disease and county.

Data, statistics, reports, and maps.

Developed at the Cecil G. Sheps Center at UNC Chapel Hill to collect and disseminate timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina.

Central site for NC statistics on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, cancer and birth defects and more.

Up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on more than 500 health topics.

The State Data Center is a consortium of agencies cooperating with the US Bureau of the Census to provide the public with data about the state and its component geographic areas.

Provides access to state reports, ranking each county within the states according to its health outcomes and multiple health factors. Each county can also drill down to see specific county-level data.

All Causes of Death, All Causes of Premature Mortality, and Ten Leading Causes of Death compiled for eastern counties and aggregated by 29 and 41 county groupings from the Center for Health Services Research & Development at East Carolina University.

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics annual publications that include county level data.

This data snapshot provides information about uninsured individuals in North Carolina by age and
county of residence.