Academic Guides: Statistics & Measures for the Health Sciences: Statistics & Measures for the Health Sciences

Major sources of health statistics

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
U.S. federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system.
America's Health Rankings
This report looks at the four groups of health determinants that can be affected: behavior, community and environment, public and health policies, and clinical care.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
BRFSS is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984.
CDC: Data & Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearinghouse for data and statistics by topic.
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.
Determinants of Health: Healthy People 2020
Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Longitudinal hospital care data in the United States from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

HealthData.gov
Data collected from agencies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and state partners.
NIH Data Sharing Repositories
This is a table that lists NIH-supported data repositories that accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others). Also included are resources that aggregate information about biomedical data and information sharing systems.
WHO Global Health Observatory
A data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.
World Health Organization: Data & Statistics
WHO is an agency of the United Nations and coordinates international health initiatives and research.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print contains reviews of over 3,000 commercially available, English language testing instruments. Reviews contain information about the reliability, validity, and publication details of the testing instruments. A score index that allows users to easily identify what is being measured in individual tests and bibliographic information is also included. Testing instruments fall into many categories such as psychological tests, career inventories, intelligence and aptitude, and personality. There are no full text testing instruments in this database.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) database provides information about approximately 15,000 measurement instruments. The full text instruments are NOT included in HaPI. Instead this database is used to discover instruments on a topic, track the history of an instrument over time, and find publisher information.
APA PsycTests
APA PsycTests contains access to unpublished (not commercially available) psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments. Each record contains reliability and validity, scope, implementation, and an overview when available. Most records also contain the full text of the instrument.