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New York State/City

  New York City

• 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

• New York State Department of Health - Statistics and Data

 

Other Nations

• 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
  • 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)

• 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)
  • Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA)
  • National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMADHA)
  • Integrated Fertility Survey Series
  • Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES)

 

  Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)

SSEDL is an extensive health and social science resource that consists of nine topically focused data archives.

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

Studies must be downloaded directly from the SSEDL which can be reached via:

• 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)

• 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.