American FactFinder
US Census Bureau
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPeople?_submenuId=people_1&_sse=on
Obtain data in the form of maps, tables, and reports from a variety of Census Bureau sources.

Arkansas Census Data Center
UALR
http://www.aiea.ualr.edu/census/default.html
The Census State Data Center (CSDC) is the official representative of the U. S. Bureau of the Census in Arkansas.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/
BRFSS is the world's largest phone survey. It tracks health risks of adults in the U.S.

CDC Wonder
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
http://wonder.cdc.gov
Allows users to query dozens of numeric data sets on CDC's mainframe & other computers, via "fill-in-the-blank" request screens. Public-use data sets about mortality, cancer incidence, hospital discharges, AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, and many other topics are available for query. The requested data can be readily summarized and analyzed.

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/index.shtm
The Dartmouth Atlas Project works to accurately describe how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project offers comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians, in order to provide a basis for improving health and health systems.

FASTSTATS A to Z
NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/
Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, sources of more data, and related web pages.

FEDSTATS
http://www.fedstats.gov/
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

Finding and Using Health Statistics
NLM & NICHSR
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm
A self-study course from the National Library of Medicine and the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology.

Health Data for All Ages
NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm
This site presents interactive tables with pretabulated health statistics by age, gender, race/ethnicity and geography.

Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
NLM & NICHSR
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
Information about research datasets and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, Behavioral and Social Sciences and Public Health with links to PubMed.

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
AHRQ
http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/
HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. Use HCUPnet (free) to query HCUP data directly and to view ready-to-use tables of commonly requested information.

National Center for Health Statistics
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics. The report consists of two main sections: A chartbook containing text and figures that illustrates major trends in the health of Americans; and a trend tables section that contains 156 detailed data tables.

National Center for Health Statistics - linked data from SSA/CMS
NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/nchs_datalinkage/data_linkage_cms.htm
NCHS has completed a linkage of several of its population-based surveys with administrative data collected from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The overall goal of this is to study changes in health status, health care utilization and expenditures in the elderly and disabled population. Permission from NCHS to access and use these data sets are required.

National Health Interview Survey: Race and Hispanic Origin Information
NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis/rhoi/rhoi.htm
The site is intended to be a resource for policy makers and federal agencies that wish to learn about the NHIS' experiences with collecting data on race and Hispanic origin. It is also a research tool that will assist researchers using NHIS in understanding the evolution and complexity of the race and Hispanic origin data in the NHIS.

National Vital Statistics System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
Compiles information from States on vital events: births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.

Quick Health Data Online
Office on Women's Health - DHHS
http://www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/index.html
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH) is pleased to provide access to Quick Health Data Online, formerly known as the National Women's Health Indicators Database (NWHID).

Racial and Ethnic Classifications Used in Census 2000 and Beyond
Census.gov
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/racefactcb.html
The purpose of this document is to provide information about changes to the questions on race and Hispanic origin that have occurred for the Census 2000. These changes conform to the revisions of the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity promulgated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in October 1997.

Statistical Resources on the Web
University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
A comprehensive list of statistical resources dealing with health.

Vital Information for a Healthy Arkansas - Data and Research
DHHS
http://www.healthyarkansas.com/data/data.html
Local data sets on disease and injury surveillance, health professionals, maternal and child health, mortality, etc.

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/whosis/en/index.html
Presents the most recent statistics since 1997 of 50 health indicators for WHO’s 192 Member States.

WISQARS Fatal Injuries: Leading Causes of Death Reports
CDC
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html
(Web-based Injury Statistics Query & Reporting System) - An interactive database that provides customized reports of injury related data.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
The YRBSS includes national, state, and local school-based surveys of representative samples of 9th through 12th grade students. These surveys are conducted every 2 years, usually during spring semester. The CDC's national survey provides data representative of high school students in U.S. public & private schools. The state & local surveys, conducted by departments of health & education, provide data representative of the state or local school district.