Ask OASIS 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 RankingsThis 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 & StatisticsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention clearinghouse for data and statistics by topic.
- CDC WONDERWONDER 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 2020Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
- HealthData.govData collected from agencies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and state partners.
- NIH Data Sharing RepositoriesThis 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 ObservatoryA data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.
- World Health Organization: Data & StatisticsWHO is an agency of the United Nations and coordinates international health initiatives and research.
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)HCUP (pronounced "H-CUP") family of health care databases and related software tools and products is made possible by a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Search for instruments
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
This databases contains reviews of commercially available, English language testing instruments and includes information on the test's reliability and validity, publisher details, and a score index to easily identify what is being measured. The full text of the tests are not available in this database. How to Use the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
A valuable database for discovering both published (commercial) and unpublished (noncommercial) instruments on a topic and learning how they have been used in academic research. Full text instruments are not available in this database.
- APA PsycTests
A database of mostly unpublished (noncommercial) psychological tests and measures. Each record includes information on reliability, validity, scope, and availability. Most records contain the full text of the instrument.
Recommended books
Eliminating Health DisparitiesPublication Date: 2004
Medical Statistics from ScratchPublication Date: 2014
Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSSPublication Date: 2007
Statistical Methods in HealthcarePublication Date: 2012
Applied Mixed Models in MedicinePublication Date: 2014
