GLHLTH 637K: Population & Environmental Dynamics Influencing Health: Health Data

"The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation. It provides critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database. The GHO presents data from all WHO programmes and provides links to supporting information." [quoted from website] This resource comprises the WHO database, reports, indicator registry, and country stats from each Member State. Incorporates WHOSIS.

This source offers access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources, searchable by topic, indicator, or country.

Includes dynamic data visualizations in a wide range of Global Burden of Disease topics and countries

A project of the Kaiser Family Foundation, this resource provides data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators.

Catalog of household surveys in countries around the world. This site does not contain the data in the surveys, but should provide enough information to track the survey back to its source.

Quick links from the CDC for a wide variety of data.

Produced by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington

Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries, including indicators of health status and health risks and inputs/outputs of health care systems.

This rich resource provides national and sub-national data in over 75 countries on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/STIs, infectious diseases, reproductive health, and nutrition. Scroll down to "Dataset Access" on the left sidebar to find available data sets.

The "Customized Statistical Tables" tool includes economic and social data from 195 countries and territories, with particular reference to children’s health, education, protection, and HIV/AIDS. Also includes the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS).

This resource has been incorporated into the Global Health Observatory (GHO). Please see link above or go directly to http://www.who.int/gho/en/.

[Print resource] The only source that attempts to cover all countries of the world. It contains the "official" vital statistics, morbidity statistics for infectious diseases, and health resources submitted to the World Health Organization from contributing countries. A global overview is also included. Data is usually published several years after the fact.

Part of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (Regional Office of the WHO), this resource includes health Situation in the Americas reports, country health profiles, and regional health indicators.

The World Development Indicators (WDI) provides convenient access to a wide range of economic, environment, health, political, and social indicators in roughly 200 countries. Time series data is available for many indicators from 1960 onwards. In addition to the wide range of global statistics, the WDI provides convenient data extraction tools that allow data access in Microsoft Excel and other statistical packages.

This website provides access to various databases containing information on the occurrence of cancer worldwide held and managed by the Section of Cancer Information (CIN) of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

The CPC is a community of scholars and professionals working on path-breaking research to address population issues in 85 countries, throughout the U.S., and in North Carolina.

Each country profile provides the number, rates and causes of deaths from NCDs; the prevalence of selected risk factors; trends in metabolic risk factors in each country; and information describing current prevention and control of NCDs.