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Finding and Using
Health Statistics Tutorial
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/usestats/index.htm
County Statistics
County Health
Rankings
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
This site ranks each county within the 50 states
according to its health outcomes and the multiple health factors that determine
a county’s health. Each county receives a summary rank for its health
outcomes and health factors and also for the four different types of health
factors: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the
physical environment. Each county can also drill down to see specific
county-level data (as well as state benchmarks) for the measures upon which the
rankings are based.
Georgia Statistics System (online
version of the Georgia County Guide)
http://www.georgiastats.uga.edu
State and County Safety
Net Data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/safetynet/profile.htm
Community Health
Status Indicators Report
http://www.communityhealth.hhs.gov
State Statistics
County Health
Rankings
http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
This site ranks each county within the 50 states
according to its health outcomes and the multiple health factors that determine
a county’s health. Each county receives a summary rank for its health
outcomes and health factors and also for the four different types of health
factors: health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic factors, and the
physical environment. Each county can also drill down to see specific
county-level data (as well as state benchmarks) for the measures upon which the
rankings are based.
Georgia Public Health Data
http://health.state.ga.us/healthdata/
OASIS: Online Analytical
Statistical Information System
http://oasis.state.ga.us/
Georgia Health
Profile
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm
Georgia
QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/georgia_map.html
The
Georgia Epidemiology Report
http://health.state.ga.us/epi/manuals/ger.asp
Georgia
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
http://health.state.ga.us/epi/brfss/index.asp
Healthy
People 2010 Tracking Data
http://wonder.cdc.gov/DATA2010/index.htm
National and International
Statistics
Health Services Research
Web Sites (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/hsrsites.html
Statistical
Resources on the WEB - HEALTH
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html#quick
National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
CDC Data and
Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm
CDC Wonder: access to over twenty
data sets
http://wonder.cdc.gov/
Disease Trends @
MMWR
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html
Census Bureau Home
Page
http://www.census.gov/
FedStats Home
Page
http://www.fedstats.gov/
HCUPnet national
hospital statistics
http://hcup.ahrq.gov/HCUPnet.asp
CMS Health
Accounts
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp
Medical Expenditure Panel
Survey Homepage
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/
HIVnet
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hivnet.htm
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency Where You Live
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/whereyoulive.htm
Unemployment
Data
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/map.servlet.MapToolServlet?survey=la
United Nations Statistics
Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
World Health
Organization Research Tools
http://www.who.int/research/en/
Research
Style Guide
AMA Style
Guide
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/ama.html
Searching for Articles
PubMed with our library holdings
Use and bookmark this customized version of PubMed to see the items
accessible through Mercer Libraries. Click the full text icon to see if we have
access; if not, contact the library. When searching, use the following Medical
Subject Headings (MeSH) to help narrow your search for statistics: economics;
epidemiology; incidence; manpower; mortality; prevalence; statistics and
numerical data; trends; and utilization.
AgeLine
AgeLine, published by AARP, abstracts the literature of
social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology,
sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences. This
databases uses its own thesaurus of subject headings. Adding the subject
heading Statistical Data may help narrow your keyword search.
AGRICOLA
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) supports this agricultural
citation database, including journal articles, book chapters, short reports,
and reprints.
ERIC
A
bibliographic database of over one million abstracts of journal articles and
reports in education from the U.S. Department of Education. This database uses
its own thesaurus of subject headings. If you Browse the Thesaurus by Category,
you can see that the category Research and Theory contain a number of useful
terms such as National Surveys and State Surveys.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice
publications. This databases uses its own thesaurus of subject headings. When
you search the thesaurus for terms relating to statistics and data, you
retrieve a large number of useful and specific subject headings such as Drug
Statistics and Juvenile Delinquent Demographic Data. You might want to begin
your search by first locating appropriate subject headings in this
thesaurus.
Native Health Research
Database
The Native Health
Databases contain bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related
articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the
health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First
Nations. This database uses the same Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) that are
used for PubMed.
POPLINE
POPLINE ® (POPulation information onLINE), the
world's largest database on reproductive health, provides more than 300,000
citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and
unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related
health issues. When searching, enter [STATISTICS] after
a keyword, e.g., INFANT MORTALITY [STATISTICS]. POPLINE uses the term
statistics as a keyword modifier to indicate availability of substantive
statistical data.
SafetyLit
SafetyLit is a collection of abstracts of English
language reports from researchers in several disciplines relevant to preventing
unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. The search interface allows
you to limit your search by research methods, surveillance, prevalence,
occurrence, cost, and more.
Publications
Health, United States
Annual compilation by the CDC and
NCHS includes 146 tables divided into four main categories: health status and
determinants, utilization of resources, health care resources, and health care
expenditures.
Healthy People
2010
Defines the health objectives
for the U.S. for the next decade. Continues the work started with Healthy
People and Healthy People 2010. Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR)
Weekly publication presenting
data on reportable diseases (such as AIDS, hepatitis, and tuberculosis) broken
down by region and state, along with articles on specific epidemiological
topics. The last issue of the year includes annual summary
data.
Statistical Abstract of the
United States
The authoritative and
comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic
organization of the United States.
Vital and
Health Statistics
This series
contains 24 different sets on a wide range of health related topics. The data
is a sample set, collected by survey and examination. The statistics are
usually three years old at the time of publication. The set called Advanced
Data provides current statistics, but does not go into as much
detail.
Vital
Statistics of the United States
Comprehensive vital statistics for the U.S. published annually from
1937-1993. Each year has four volumes: "Natality", "Mortality A", "Mortality
B", and "Marriage and Divorce". Electronic version started with Natality, 1997.
This publication is supplemented by National Vital
Statistics Report which issues more current statistics in less detail.
Community
Medicine
Community Medicine
II
The website includes the
curriculum guide (which contains a comprehensive phase schedule), links to
Journal Club readings, as well as primary and secondary resources, and links to
outside materials and training required during the phase.
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MUSM librarians can help you locate many other resources and
materials besides those listed above. The librarians would be happy to help you
formulate your online searches or help you brush up on your research
skills.
In Macon:
Anna
Krampl, Rita Smith, and Roxanne Nelson are available to assist you
Monday-Friday from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Please request assistance directly from
one of the librarians (not a staff member) so that we can determine how best to
help you.
| Phone: (478) 301-4056 (ask for a reference
librarian) |
| Fax: (478) 301-2051 |
| Email: reference.ill@gain.mercer.edu |
In
Savannah:
Jane Bridges, Carolyn Klatt, or Sylvia Brandon are available
to assist you Monday-Friday from 7:30 AM - 7:00 PM and some Saturdays 10-5.
Please request assistance directly from one of the librarians (not a staff
member) so that we can determine how best to help you.
| Phone: 912-350-8345 (ask for one of us) |
| Fax: 912-350-8685 |
| Email: library@memorialhealth.com |
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