Research

Selected Websites

AIDS
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/nchstp.html

Alternative Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nccam/camonpubmed.html
http://www.compmed.umm.edu/Consumer.html
http://nccam.nih.gov/

American Hospital Association Resource Center
http://www.hospitalconnect.com/aha/resource_center/index.html

American Public Health Association
http://www.apha.org/

Cancer
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
http://cancer.gov/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov
The CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of the public, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.

Census
http://www.census.gov/
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Clinical Trials
http://www.trialscentral.org/

Combined Health Information Database (CHID Online)
http://chid.nih.gov
Provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information resources. CHID lists health promotion and education materials and program descriptions not indexed elsewhere.

Community Organizations
Westchester County Non-profit Organizations (from Westchester Magazine) PDF
NYC Charities Organizations
Programs listed by Columbia University Community Impact
Rutgers, Citizenship & Service Education Program
Rockland County Volunteer Action Center
Mayor’s Volunteer Center of NYC

Consumer Health
http://nnlm.gov/scr/conhlth/manualidx.htm
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=33
http://nnlm.gov/hip/infoRx/
http://www.netwellness.org/
http://www.noah-health.org/

Drug Info
http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/Home
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicines.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Elderly
http://www.aarp.org/research/agesource/
http://www.aoa.gov/eldfam/eldfam.asp
http://www.aoa.gov/prof/aoaprog/caregiver/caregiver.asp
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/

Environment (impact on health)
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/admin/openaccess.html

Epidemiology
http://www.epidemiolog.net/
http://www.epidemiology.ch/history/epi-hist.htm

FDA Food & Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/

Government
http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health.shtml
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/topics/health.html
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html
http://www.cip.umd.edu/
http://www.nih.gov/icd/
http://www.dhhs.gov/

EHealth
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/index.html
http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/
http://www.ehealthinstitute.org/
http://www.ehealthinternational.org/
http://www.ehealthinnovation.org/

Health (Misc.)
http://phpartners.org/hp/
http://www.ncahf.org/
http://my.webmd.com/

healthfinder®
http://healthfinder.gov
federal Web site, developed by the U.S. DHHS - recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.

HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/hipaa/
http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/

Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/

Kids Count
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/

LAB Tests
http://www.labtestsonline.org/

Maternal & Child Health
http://www.mchlibrary.info/

MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov
Authoritative and current information on over 650 diseases and conditions. Also includes extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs and information on NIH clinical trials.

Mental Health
http://mhin.bu.edu/
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
http://www.omh.state.ny.us/omhweb/links/mh_links.html

Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/

Minority Health
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm
http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/ethnicamerican/
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/static/spotlight_minorityhealth_index.cfm
http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

News, Health
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health™
http://www.noah-health.org
Provides access to high quality full-text health information that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased.

Occupational Health
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic.html

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
http://phpartners.org
This site provides a wealth of information for public health workers. Provides quality information to improve the practice of those in public health.

Pew/Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/

Prevention
http://www.prevent.org/

Public Health
http://www.ahcpr.gov/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrph.html
http://phpartners.org/
http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/phia/links

PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/web_based.html
http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/PubMed/PubMed2/index.html (Tutorial on using Pubmed)

Rare Disorders
http://www.rarediseases.org/

Scorecard
http://scorecard.org
Public health workers can learn more about environmental pollutants in their communities. Many of these chemicals have detailed chemical profiles that indicate their health hazards such as they cause cancer, birth defects, or contribute to the deterioration of the immune system. Additional information includes air pollutants, emissions of toxic chemicals, Superfund sites, lead hazards in housing, and animal waste sites in a community.

Smoking
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/search/

Statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
http://www.injuryprevention.org/info/data/ri.htm
http://www.fedstats.gov/fast.html
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/

Toxicology
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?TOXLINE
Tox Town - http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction to toxic chemicals and environmental health risks that may be encountered in everyday life. Click on scenes from the City or Town to learn more about urban and suburban health risks. Click on a particular location within the Town or City to find out what chemicals may be in that location. Roll the mouse over one of the eight chemical names listed at the bottom of the screen to find out more about that specific chemical. Excellent resource for health workers to find out about environmental toxins in their community

Women’s Health

http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec802271b0
http://www.modimes.org/
http://www.mchlibrary.info/
http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/index.cfm

 

Health Data and Statistics Resources

Fact sheet on hospital and nursing from the U.S. Census
www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/004491.html

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Data and Surveys
http://www.ahcpr.gov/data/index.html
Data from Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project and HIV/AIDS.

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
Prepackaged data products and user-selected data tables and maps from Census 2000, the 1990 Census of Population and Housing, the 1997 Economic Census, and the American Community Survey. The site provides a wealth of demographic and ethnicity information.

Physician Data Now
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2676.html
Statistics on physicians and the practice of medicine.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss

Scientific research clearly shows that personal health behaviors play a major role in premature morbidity and mortality. As a result, surveys were developed and conducted to monitor state-level prevalence of the major behavioral risks among adults associated with premature morbidity and mortality. CDC developed standard core questionnaire for states to use to provide data that could be compared across states.

Birth Data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm
The National Center for Health Statistics provides a host of resources relating to health and statistics. This site offers a variety of links to data containing birth information.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Data—Occupational Injuries
http://www.bls.gov/iif/#tables
Illness and injuries on the job and worker fatalities data from Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP): Data and Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm
CDC Health Information and Surveillance Systems: National Electronic Disease Surveillance System.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
http://www.cms.gov/data/download/default.asp
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services were formerly the Health Care Financing Administration. The Centers' site provides statistical information on Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments program. Contains free downloads of Medicare data sets.

Datasets by Title
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
The National Library of Medicine has compiled an extensive listing of datasets arranged alphabetically

Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/datacncl/datadir/index.shtml
Compilation of information about virtually all major data collection systems sponsored by the U.S. DHHS

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

General Datasets
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/sci_data/misc/misc.asp
As part of the CDC WONDER web site, a variety of CDC scientific data documentation links are provided.

Health Website Search Module (by Society of Actuaries of NAHDO)
http://www.nahdo.org/soa/soa1.html
State data agencies and state health departments providing inpatient and outpatient data.

HHS Data Council: Gateway to Data and Statistics
http://aspe.hhs.gov/statinfo
Brings together key health and human services and complements other resources such as USA.gov and FedStats.

HSSR – Health Services and Sciences Research Resources
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/hsrr_search/
Contains information about research datasets and with links to PubMed and additional resources.

InfoNation
http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/info.asp
Source of the most up-to-date statistical data for member nations of the United Nations.

KIDS COUNT Census Data Online
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/census/
Indicators of child well-being from the 2000 U.S. Census.

Linked Birth and Infant Death Data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/linked.htm
This site offers a variety of links to data containing birth and infant death information.

MapStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/
Data from federal statistical agencies for states, counties, federal judicial districts & Congressional Districts.

Maternal and Child Health Bureau
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/data/
This site provides access to a variety of MCH data sources, including Title V Information System data, Women's Health USA 2002, and Child Health USA 2002.

Mortality Data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/mortdata.htm
The National Center for Health Statistics provides a host of resources relating to health and statistics. This site offers a variety of links to data containing mortality information.

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/
Survey is conducted to provide nationally representative estimates of health care use, expenditures, sources of payments, and insurance coverage for the U.S. non-institutionalized population. The Household Component collects medical expenditure data on the person, household, event, jobs and condition levels. The Insurance Component collects data on health insurance plans obtained from various establishments. The Medical Provider Component collects medical expenditure data from medical providers (i.e. hospitals, physician offices, etc.)

Natality Data
http://www.nber.org/data/natality.html
Birth data and other vital statistics from the National Center for Health Statistics.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
Preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis.

National Atlas of the United States
http://nationalatlas.gov/
Delivers map-like views of America's natural and ociocultural landscapes. The Atlas helps users visualize complex relationships between environments, places, and people. It contributes to our knowledge of the environmental, resource, demographic, economic, social, political, and historical dimensions of American life.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Systems – Data Warehouse
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
Data on vital health and life style events requiring diagnosis of illness or disability and use of health care.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm
Provides a host of resources relating to health and statistics.

National Health Interview Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
Provides a host of resources relating to health and statistics. Offers links to data containing information on adults, children, large MSA identification, body weight status, ADD and learning disabilities, etc.

National Health Interview Survey on Disability
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhis_dis/nhis_dis.htm
Statistics provides resources relating to health and statistics. This site offers a variety of links to data containing information on the number of people using assistive technology.

National Survey of Family Growth
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm
This site offers a variety of links to data containing information on cohabitation, marriage, divorce, infertility, sex education, and the use of contraceptives.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) – Statistics and Data
http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/
Statistics and data on workplace inspection and workplace injury, illness and fatality.

The Odum Institute’s Archive
http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/home.asp
One of the oldest and largest archives of machine-readable data in the U.S.

Scientific Data Documentation
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/sci_data/sci_data.asp
As part of the CDC Wonder web site, this page provides links to census and surveys of populations, classifications and codes, mortality and morbidity, natality, registries and health surveys.

SEER – Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
http://www.seer.cancer.gov/
Statistics on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival.

State and County Quick Facts
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
Summary profiles showing frequently requested data items from various programs of the U.S. Census.

Statistical Resources (Public Health Library, University of California, Berkeley)
http://www.lib.Berkeley.edu/PUBL/stats.html
A portal site of links to state, national, and international sites of statistical resources.

Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html
A portal site of links to sources of statistical information arranged by broad subject category.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/
The goal of the archive is to provide ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data.

U.S. Census Bureau – Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
Extensive selection of statistics for the U.S., with selected data for regions, divisions, states, metropolitan areas, cities, and foreign countries from reports and records of government and private agencies. A guide to other statistical resources and many tables contain new data reflecting fresh topics of interest each year.

U.S. Census Bureau– Health Insurance Data
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html
Longitudinal data on health insurance from the Current Population Surveys.

WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
Interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data.

WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System)
http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm
International health statistics including statistics on AIDS/HIV, mortality, immunization, life expectancy, etc.