The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, or the Forum, is a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families.

"This web site offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education. The Forum fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of Federal efforts to collect and report data on conditions and trends for children and families."

Provides access to several EPA databases to provide information about environmental activities that may affect air, water, and land anywhere in the United States. Can also generate maps of environmental information.

"For more than 20 years, the Dartmouth Atlas Project has documented glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians.

These reports, used by policymakers, the media, health care analysts and others, have radically changed our understanding of the efficiency and effectiveness of our health care system. This valuable data forms the foundation for many of the ongoing efforts to improve health and health systems across America.

This website provides access to all Atlas reports and publications, as well as interactive tools to allow visitors to view specific regions and perform their own comparisons and analyses.

"HCUPnet is an on-line query system that gives access to the largest set of all-payer health care databases that are publicly available. Generate tables and graphs on national and regional statistics and trends for community hospitals in the U.S. In addition, community hospital data are available for those States that have agreed to participate in HCUPnet.

HCUPnet is part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). HCUPnet generates statistics using data from HCUP’s Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), the Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID), and the State Inpatient Databases (SID).

HCUP data are used for research on hospital utilization, access, charges, quality and outcomes. The data are used to describe patterns of care for uncommon as well as common diseases, to analyze hospital procedures, including those that are performed infrequently, and to study the care of population sub-groups such as minorities, children, women, and the uninsured. Researchers and policymakers use HCUP data to identify, track, analyze and compare hospital statistics at the national, regional and State levels.

For more information go to: HCUP-US Web site: http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/"

Tool provides information on how well the hospitals in an area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. Helps compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public.

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS).

Data and analysis on health care plans, expenditures, program rates, trends, consumer research and more.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the U.S. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.

MEPS currently has two major components: the Household Component and the Insurance Component. The Household Component provides data from individual households and their members, which is supplemented by data from their medical providers. The Insurance Component is a separate survey of employers that provides data on employer-based health insurance.

MEPS also includes a Medical Provider Component (MPC), which covers hospitals, physicians, home health care providers, and pharmacies identified by MEPS-HC respondents. Its purpose is to supplement and/or replace information received from the MEPS-HC respondents.

Gives a snapshot of hospitals’ performance in three key areas: heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. Can quickly see how often a particular Minnesota hospital provides the care that is expected when patients have one of these three conditions. Can also easily compare how different hospitals perform.

The NHDS collects data from a sample of approximately 270,000 inpatient records acquired from a national sample of about 500 hospitals.

"The medical abstract form and the automated data tapes contain items that relate to the personal characteristics of the patient. These items include age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and expected sources of payment. Administrative items such as admission and discharge dates (which allow calculation of length of stay), as well as discharge status are also included. Medical information about patients includes diagnoses and procedures coded to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)."

Access to all the data included in the Safety Net Monitoring Initiative. 118 measures are available for 30 States and the District of Columbia, including 355 counties and 172 cities in 90 metropolitan areas, as well as all 1,818 counties (both metropolitan and non-metropolitan) in those States. The Profile Tool will guide you step-by-step to obtain the statistics you need, and can be used to generate reports that compare multiple measures for one or more geographic areas.

U.S. Coast Guard.

Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Fatalities,injuries associated with children’s products (toys, etc.), poisonings, electrocutions, fires, fireworks, sports & recreation and shopping carts.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program provides data on illnesses and injuries on the job and data on worker fatalities. Includes customize data tables, publications and overviews

The purpose of this Web site is to provide an overview of injury morbidity and mortality data and statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and other sources and to provide details on injury surveillance methodology and tools to assist in data analysis.

Facts, data and publications.

provides statistics on the number of traffic-related injuries and fatalities. Includes the Traffic Safety Annual Report and the State Traffic Safety Information Website.

Directory of links to sites with accident/injury statistics

American Public Transportation Association.

Reports fatalities and injuries that occur on public transit systems. All data is United States.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

March of Dimes

Provides free access to US, state, county, and city maternal & infant health data. Contains over 60,000 graphs, maps and tables.

From the National Center for Health Statistics, a collection of vital statistics products including tables, data files, and reports that allow users to access and examine vital statistics and population data interactively.

Currently only births and perinatal mortality is available.

National Mental Health Information Center (SAMHSA)

National Institute of Mental Health

"Released to the public on April 14, 1997. This atlas shows all leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas (HSA’s). The 18 causes of death included in this atlas account for 83 percent of all deaths in the United States during 1988-92. In addition to maps with age-adjusted death rates for each HSA, the atlas includes maps that compare each HSA rate to the national rate, smoothed maps for each cause that show the broad geographic patterns at selected ages, and a chart with regional rates for each cause of death."

Provides interactive maps, graphs, text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.

CDC Wonder.

Underlying Cause-Of-Death for years 1979-2003.

Contains mortality and population counts for all U.S. counties. Counts and rates of death can be obtained by underlying cause of death, state, county, age, race, sex, and year.

Joint project of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of the Census.

Collection of charts on national health status indicators, health manpower and services, rural areas and rural hospitals around the United States.

The Rural Indicators Map Machine is an Internet-based mapping utility that provides a visualization of indicators for rural areas available from Economic Research Service. These indicators include the Urban Influence Code, the Rural-urban Continuum Code, and the Rural-urban Commuting Area Code, Population, ethnic percentages and household incomes.

Web Site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics (Forum)

"The Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics (Forum) was initially established in 1986, with the goal of bringing together Federal agencies that share a common interest in improving aging-related data." Includes links to other age-related statistical information.

Administration on Aging.

Wide variety of information on aging. Includes Profile of Older Americans and County-State Aging Population Estimates.

Science-Based Facts on Drug Abuse and Addiction.

NIDA InfoFacts are updated regularly. There is no copyright on any of the materials available through NIDA InfoFacts, and all can be reproduced for further distribution.

Provides national data on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse; drug related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases and the nation’s substance abuse treatment system. Additional resources available are the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) and the Treatment episode Data Set (TEDS).

OPTN: Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

National, regional, state and custom reports

UNOS: United Network for Organ Sharing.

National, regional, state and custom reports

USTransplant.org: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

Includes fastfacts, annual and national reports.

National Center for Health Statistics

" Data in the system are available by gender, race and ethnicity and, to the extent possible, age. Data have been collected from local, state, regional and national sources. These data come from the best sources available at both the national (e.g., CDC, US Census Bureau) and local levels (e.g., state health departments). Care has been taken to ensure consistency of definitions across the sources, the data have been compared to other references, and outside reviewers have commented on the database and the assembly process. Data in the system are organized into the following categories: - Codes and Status - Demographics - Mortality - Access to Care - Infectious/Chronic Disease - Reproductive Health - Maternal Health - Mental Health - Violence and Abuse - Prevention"

Developed by HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Office of Women’s Health) to provide an easy-to-use collection of current and historical data on some of the most pressing health challenges facing women, their families, and their communities.