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New York State/City
New York City
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InfoShare
Health, vital statistics, and socio-demographic time series data by Community
District and neighborhood with some by tract and zip code. -
New York City Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene
- New York City Community Health Survey
- Epidemiology Statistics by Neighborhood
- NYC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
- For related geography, search CU Spatial Data Catalog for United Health Fund
New York State
Other Nations
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Demographic and Health Surveys
Micro-data gathered in developing countries. -
UNData, under databases look for "WHO Data."
For developing countries: health services, coverage, outcome, mortality,
and risk factors -
OECD Health Data
- Data for EU, OECD and G8 (except Russian Federation) countries
- Health status, resources, utilization, expenditure, and financing
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Also social expenditures relating to health, data on pharmaceutical
market,
and non-medical determinants of health.
U.S.- Wide Data
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
- NCHS web-based
Data Warehouse
Files are documentation are available at the site. -
DataGate Collection
NCHS holdings plus, titles held by CU (including the NCHS CD-ROM collection),
or at other publicly accessible locations. -
CDC Wonder
Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) is the
Center for Disease Control (CDC) web portal for data. -
NCHS Restricted-Access Datasets
Selected restricted-access data sets available to CU affiliates via
the New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC).
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
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ICPSR main page
- Archive covering a broad range of social science topics
- Includes health issues for both U.S. and other countries
- Health-related Topical Archives at ICPSR (U.S. based studies)
Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
SSEDL is an extensive health and social science resource that consists of nine topically focused data archives.Studies must be downloaded directly from the SSEDL which can be reached via:
- Disability in the U.S.
- American Family Data Archive
- Social Research on Aging
- Contextual Data Archive
- Maternal Drug Abuse
- Child Well-Being & Poverty Data Archive
- AIDS/STD Data & Instrument Archive
- Adolescent Pregnancy & Pregnancy Prevention
- Complementary & Alternative Medicine Data
- DataGate
Contains abstracts for all SSEDL studies that are unique to SSEDL with
reference to the SSEDL study number and a link to the SSEDL site.- SSEDL
Provides a variety of options for access that include:
- titles which can be browsed by archive,
- titles and abstracts which can be searched,
- variable-level searching,
- online extraction tool (MIDAS).
Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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Medical Expenditure Survey (public-use site)
Summary tables, data files, documentation -
Health Care Utilization Project (HCUPnet)
An on-line query system of all-payer health care databases -
Restricted-Use Files
For CU affiliates, these are available via the
New York Census Research Data Center (NYCRDC)
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMC)
- Some public data in Statistics and Trends menu.
- Public Files listed as "non-identifiable data." User agreement and IRB approval still needed.

