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External sources for health-related statistical information

 
Additional sources for health and health-related statistical and epidemiological information from sources external to WHO.

Note: A link here does not, and should not, imply any association between WHO and the owner of the linked site. The World Health Organization has no control over the validity of data or information you may find in following these links. It would be wise to note carefully the sources of any information you eventually use; either for citation purposes, or in case you need further follow-up or clarification.

 
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Links grouped as follows...
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
2. Health Economics and Health Reform
3. Health Information sites
4. Health Organizations
5. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
6. World Bank
7. Health Publications
8. Single-issue or disease-specific health sites
9. Journals
10. United Nations
11. Information & Communication Technology

 

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) top

CDC's electronic MMWR
CDC's home page
CDC's Information Networks and Other Information Sources
CDC's National Immunization Program (NIP)
CDC's Public Health Practice Program Office - PHPPO
CDC's WONDER on the WWW
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
US National Center for HIV/AIDS, STD and TB prevention

 

2. Health Economics and Health Reform top

CREDES: Centre de Recherche d'Etude et de Documentation en Economie de la Santé
Health Reform Online
HIV/AIDS Economics
International Clearinghouse of Health System Reform Initiatives (ICHSRI)
Management Sciences for Health: The Manager's Electronic Resource Center (ERC).
Partnerships for Health Reform resource center database (publicly available documents on health reform)
University of Michigan - Statistical Resources on the Web Foreign Government Data Sources
World Bank Policy Research Papers on poverty and social services
World Bank, Health Reform Online (Economic Development Institute (EDI) of the Bank) Health Sector: Reform, Health Economics, and Sustainable Financing
World Bank, Living Standards Measurement Surveys (household surveys)

 

3. Health Information sites top

Administration on Aging
Archive of computerized social science data
Children's Vaccine Program (PATH)
Clinical Trials provided by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Combined Health Information Database
Demographic and Health Surveys
Dr Koop's Community
EarthTrends: Environmental Information (World Resources Institute)
Electronic Development and Environment Information System
Emergency Nutrition Network (Field Exchange Magazine)
European hospital morbidity database (HMDB)
European hospital morbidity database (HMDB)
European Observatory on Health Care Systems
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (data on all fatal vehicle crashes in the United States)
Field Exchange Magazine: Caring for unaccompanied children under difficult circumstances
Food Safety Project - Iowa State University
Gapminder World Health Chart
Gapminder: Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!
Global Health Facts from the Kaiser Family Foundation
Hardin Meta Dictionary of Internet Health Sources
Harvard University Burden of Disease Unit: Information about The Global Burden of Disease and Injury Series
Health Informatics World Wide: Health Informatics Index Site
Health on the Net Foundation This site includes a complete list of hospitals on the WWW, Internet medical support communities (listservers, newsgroups and FAQs) and extensive telemedicine resources.
INCLEN: International Clinical Epidemiology Network
INFOSANTE: Statistiques sur le système de santé et la population en Belgique
InteliHealth Home
International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)
Johns Hopkins - Delta Omega - Public Domain Software for Public Health
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Library of Congress: Country Studies
Lifelines
Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
Medscape
MONICA web site public pages, and
National Alcohol and Drugs Information System in the Netherlands (LADIS)
National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed
National Health Information Center (NHIC)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for Teens
National Library of Medicine's MedLine Plus
NationMaster.com: A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations
NGO-NET Africa
On-line Medical Dictionary (CancerWeb)
PATH: Program for Appropriate Technology in Health
PDR's (Physicians' Desk Reference)
Relief Web - OCHR
ReliefWeb
SatelLife (HealthNet)
Telemedicine Information Exchange (TIE)
The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
ThriveOnline
UN Office for the Coordination of Hunaitarian Affairs
UNICEF Statistical Data
Yale Center for Medical Informatics

 

4. Health Organizations top

American Public Health Association (APHA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) EPA's home page, many links including shareware URLs
FedStats
Glossary of technical and medical terms in nine European Languages (EC)
Google Web Directory: Health > Organizations
Governments on the WWW
Institute of Medicine on-line,
International Hospital Federation
Medical Knowledge Institute
National Academy of Sciences:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Official Website of the Nobel Foundation
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Project HOPE
Royal Society of Medicine (UK)
Sustainable Development Timeline - an interactive exhibit that begins with the 1962 publication of "Silent Spring."
U.S. Census Bureau
WHO Library

 

5. National Institutes of Health (NIH) top

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH home page
PubMed (Internet Grateful Med no longer available)
Search the NIH website by keywords
Visible Human Project

 

6. World Bank top

Data for Development
Inequality, Poverty and Socio-Economic Performance
PovertyNet
Prospects for Development
Research for Development
The World Bank Group: Data & Statistics

 

7. Health Publications top

National Academies (NAS) Publications
Project Hope

 

8. Single-issue or disease-specific health sites top

CancerNet of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ID Links - The Communication Center for Infectious Diseases
Influenza Sequence Database
Malaria Network
National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
National Cervical Cancer Coalition Website
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID)
National Women's Health Information Center
Orthogate: trauma and orthopaedic information on the Internet

 

9. Journals top

Bio-IT World

 

10. United Nations top

Millennium Development Goals
UNCTAD's Country classifications and groupings

 

11. Information & Communication Technology top

The digital divide: ICT development indices 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD, 2004.
UNCTAD handbook of statistics 2004. Geneva, UNCTAD, 2004
World development indicators 2005. Washington, DC, World Bank Group, 2005
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