TSEM 102: Mass Media and Medicine (Ritchie)

Published documents on public health, including reports, articles, recommendations and guidelines, as well as statistical research and data sets, reference materials and bibliographies on health-related topics.

CDC’s WISQARS™ is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics. It includes the Data Finder, which gives you Health, United States, 2018 trend tables and figures on a subject and/or population subgroup of interest.

This compilation of statistics includes information on both chronic and communicable diseases.

Forum on Child and Family Statistics

Quick and easy access to a variety of health topics, the latest in reports, and additional data and tools about U.S. healthcare, health status indicators, risk factors, incidence, prevalence, and more.

HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The system provides health care statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well as population-based health care data on counties.

The HCUP (pronounced "H-CUP") family of healthcare 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). The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time.

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is a weekly epidemiological digest for the United States published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was originally established as Weekly Health Index in 1930, changing its title to Weekly Mortality Index in 1941 and Morbidity and Mortality in 1952. (From the MMWR page.)

The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program provides information on cancer statistics in an effort to reduce the cancer burden among the U.S. population. SEER is supported by the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) in NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS).

Produced the Centers for Disease Control, this website contains a wealth of statistical information on a variety of health topics.

NIDCD conducts and supports biomedical and behavioral research and training in the normal and disordered processes of communication (speech, language and voice), hearing, balance, taste and smell. The Institute also supports research and training in co-occurring speech and language disorders related to Autism Spectrum Disorders.

SAMHSA provides a national framework for quality improvement in behavioral health care will inform policy, measure program impact, and lead to improved quality of services and outcomes of individuals, families, and communities. Data helps SAMHSA and the nation assess the impact of the changes to US health care systems and identify and address behavioral health disparities.

Overviews of state, county, or place with geo-profiles and more demographic data.