Statistics & Datasets: Health, Medical

Statistical data on patients qualifying for Medicare and Medicaid services.

Child Health USA is the latest in the series of annual reports on the health status and service needs of America’s infants, children, and adolescents. Key findings are outlined in each section.

This series of reports, entitled America's Children, provides accessible compilations of well-being indicators drawn from the most reliable Federal statistics. A goal of the series is to make Federal data on children available in a nontechnical, easy-to-use format to stimulate discussion among data providers, policymakers, and the public.

Explore datasets, tools, and applications related to health and health care. These resources come from across the Federal Government with the goal of improving the health and lives of all Americans.

Demographic & Health Surveys are nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

Track up to date disease outbreaks using an interactive Google Maps tool.

Health statistics are numbers about some aspect of health. Statistics relating to births, deaths, marriages and divorces are sometimes called "vital statistics." Researchers use statistics to see patterns of diseases in groups of people. This can help in figuring out who is at risk for certain diseases, finding ways to control diseases and deciding which diseases should be studied.

Healthy People is a set of goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the Nation’s health.

NCHS allows users to find key statistics on a variety of health resources. Includes data download and other tools.

Statistics on: Access to Health Care, Patient Safety, Person- and Family-Centered Care, Care Coordination
Care Affordability, Healthy Living, Effective Treatment, Rural Health Care.

Every two years, NCSBN partners with The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers to conduct the only national-level survey specifically focused on the U.S. nursing workforce. The National Nursing Workforce Survey generates information on the supply of nurses in the country, which is critical to planning for sufficient numbers of adequately trained nurses and ensuring a safe and effective health care system.

From the Center for Disease Control the National Vital Statistics System is the oldest and most successful example of inter-governmental data sharing in Public Health and the shared relationships, standards, and procedures form the mechanism by which NCHS collects and disseminates the Nation's official vital statistics.

This survey, which began in 1977, is the largest survey of the registered nurses in the U.S. It is conducted roughly every four years by the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services.