LibGuides: Government Datasets, Statistical Data &amp; Census Information: Health and Medicine

Health and Medicine datasets encompass a wide range of data related to public health, medical research, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes. These datasets compile information on disease prevalence, healthcare expenditures, healthcare access, medical treatments, pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and health disparities among various populations. Researchers, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and public health officials utilize these datasets to monitor health trends, identify risk factors, and inform evidence-based healthcare policy and practice decision-making. By analyzing health and medicine datasets, stakeholders can assess the effectiveness of interventions, track the spread of infectious diseases, and identify areas for improvement in healthcare delivery and patient care. Additionally, these datasets support biomedical research, epidemiological studies, and efforts to address health inequities and promote health equity. Accessible and comprehensive health and medicine data are crucial in improving health outcomes, advancing medical knowledge, and enhancing public health initiatives globally.

CDC - Data Sets Data.CDC.gov is a repository of all available data sets with a Socrata Open Data API. Available categories include: Administrative, Biomonitoring, Child Vaccinations, Flu Vaccinations, Health Statistics, Injury & Violence, Motor Vehicle, NCHS, NNDSS, Pregnancy & Vaccination, STDs, Smoking & Tobacco Use, Teen Vaccinations, Traumatic Brain Injury, Vaccinations and Web Metrics.
CDC National Survey Collections Public health statistics
CDC WONDER WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data. Reports and other query systems are also available.
DATA.Gov (Healthcare) 508 datasets found for "Healthcare"
DATA.Gov (Immunization) 272 datasets were found for "immunization."
Data.Gov (Medicine) 340 datasets found for "Medicine"
healthdata.gov Datasets, tools, and applications gathered from agencies across the Federal government
Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
Global Health Observatory (GHO) A centralized and comprehensive source of information and analyses on global health R&D activities for human disease.
HealthData.gov This site is dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.
HIV/AIDS Database Data from 219 countries and areas on the prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Contains current data from surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), birth and mortality detail files, National Immunization Survey, Longitudinal Study of Aging, and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
NIH: National Library of Medicine This is the main NIH: National Library of Medicine page.
National Library of Medicine (National Center for Biotechnology Information) The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. Providing free and open access to scientific literature and data.
NIH Data Sharing Repositories NIH-supported data repositories that make data accessible for reuse
Patient Characteristics Survey (NY Office of Mental Health) The PCS is conducted every two years, and collects demographic, clinical, and service-related information for each person who receives a public mental health service during a specified one-week period.

PubMed/MEDLINE This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises over 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

Statistics & Data Sets for Health Care and Public Health (Dartmouth University) List of Health Care and Public Health datasets.
USA Facts: Health Stats What is the current state of health and healthcare in the US? There are many ways to measure the state of health and healthcare in the US: life expectancy, top causes of death, percent of Americans with health insurance, health risk factors, and more. This page showcases some of these measures to answer fundamental questions and directs you to data to develop an understanding of how healthy Americans are.
U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (USALEEP) Estimates of life expectancy at birth—the average number of years a person can expect to live—for most of the census tracts in the United States for the period 2010-2015.

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