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Nursing and Allied Health: Sources for Health Statistics

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State Health Statistics

State Morbidity & Mortality Report (weekly) - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/statehealth/index.html
State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation) - http://kff.org/statedata
Community Health Status Indicators - http://wwwn.cdc.gov/communityhealth
America's Health Rankings (United Health Foundation) - http://www.americashealthrankings.org
County Health Rankings (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - http://www.countyhealthrankings.org
City-Data.com - www.city-data.com

National Health Statistics

American Factfinder - http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
American Public Health Association - https://www.apha.org/publications-and-periodicals
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BFFSS) - http://www.cdc.gov/brfss
Center for Disease Control (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - https://www.cms.gov/
Morbidity & Mortality Report (MMWR) - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.html
National Center for Health Services - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
National Notifiable Diseases Reporting System (NNDRS) - https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nndss/data-and-statistics.html
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce - http://phpartners.org
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - http://samhsa.gov
U.S. Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov
Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) - http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars
Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) - http://wonder.cdc.gov/

International Statistics

World Health Organization - Statistical Information Systerm (WHOSIS) - www.who.int/whosis/en
Global Health Facts - http://globalhealthfacts.org
Pan American Health Organization - http://paho.org