Xavier University: Library: Internet Guides: Radiologic Technology

Academy for Health Services Research & Health Policy includes the 2008 State of the States Annual Report that tracks state progress to expand health insurance coverage

Administration for Children & Families - Statistics/Data includes statistics about child care, abuse, support, adoption, developmental disabilities, welfare, head start, and TANF (temporary assistance).

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - Data & Surveys includes MEPS - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (health care use, expenditures, insurance coverage, nursing homes); HCUPnet- Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (hospital stays, patient types, outcomes, charges, specific conditions).

American Cancer Society - Statistics includes facts and figures for cancer in the general population, cancer in African Americans, cancer prevention & early detection, colorectal cancer and breast cancer.

American Heart Association - Statistics provides a yearly update of heart disease & stroke statistics that includes charts; statistical factsheets for heart disease by demographic groups, risk factors, etc.; heart facts & stroke facts; and international coronary vessel disease statistics.

American Hospital Association's (AHA) - Studies & Statistics includes fast facts about American hospitals, recent studies, latest TrendWatch reports and hospital & health network studies.

American Medical Association (AMA) - includes statistics on women in medicine and physicians by race and ethnicity. Search their webist for "statistics."

Bureau of Justice Statistics includes statistics about crime & victims (e.g. incident-based statistics), criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, federal justice system, courts & sentencing, corrections, expenditure & employment, criminal record systems (e.g. sex offenders), and special topics (e.g. drugs & crime).

CensusScope provides charts, trends, maps, rankings and segregation data on selected topics from the Census 200 and Trend Data going back to 1990, 1980, and sometimes even further.

Centers for Disease Control Data and Statistics includes statistics for hazardous substances, injuries, birth defects, mortality (also by 121 cities), risk factors, cancer, HIV/AIDS, STDs, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, pediatric & pregnancy nutrition, workplace safety & health, laboratories and notifiable diseases.

Centers for Medicare & Medicade Services - Research, Statistics, Data & Systems includes statistics about budget, expenditures, consumer research, health care indicators, trends in health care sectors, statistical supplement by date (spending, medicare enrollment, payments, cost sharing, short-stay hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices, physician services, hospital outpatient servides,end-stage renal disease, managed care, payments by state).

FedStats provides an A-Z list of US government agencies and the statstics they provide, statistics by subject, MapStats by state, state & county statistics by subject.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) - Data & Statistics includes the Geospatial Data Warehouse that provides state, county, city, zipcode, metropolitan area or HHS region maps of HRSA programs, demographic information or health-related resources & facilities (use the map tool); also includes statistics about HIV/AIDS services, primary health care (e.g. underserved areas), maternal & child health and health professionns.

Indiana State Department of Health - Data & Statistics includes statistics about arthritis, cancer, tuberculosis, infectious diseases, fish consumption, hospital discharges, health behavior risk factors, immunizations, terminated pregnancies, marriages, maternal & child health, mortality, natality and youth risk behaviors; also includes HIV/STD quarterly reports, epdiemiology newsletters, fireworks injury report.

MapStats for Indiana includes statistics about people, business and geography by state, county or city, as well as datasets for agricuture, population (economic, housing and social, including disabilities), health, labor, business & banking, crime, education, energy, environment, and personal income.

MapStats for Kentucky includes statistics about people, business and geography by state, county or city, as well as datasets for agricuture, population (economic, housing and social, including disabilities), health, labor, business & banking, crime, education, energy, environment, and personal income.

MapStats for Ohio includes statistics about people, business and geography by state, county or city, as well as datasets for agricuture, population (economic, housing and social, including disabilities), health, labor, business & banking, crime, education, energy, environment, and personal income.

National Center for Education Statistics includes fast facts; surveys & programs; tables & figures; annual reports; school district comparisons; data snapshot on math, science & reading literacy; digest of education statistics by year.

National Center for Health Statistics includes FASTSTATS A-Z, NHANES (nutrition); NHCS (hospital discharge, ambulatory care, nursing home, hospice, home care, insurance, health providers); NHIS (heatlh status, characteristics and statistics for different populations); NIS (immunization); NSFG (family growth, sexual activity, fertility); SLAITS (childrens' health and special needs); Vital Statistics (birth, deaths, mortality, natality, marriages, divorces, fetal death); Initiatives (aging, healthy people, injury).

National Eye Institute - Data & Statistics includes statistics about blindness, visual impairment, cost of vision disorders and vision problems in the U.S.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism Quick Facts includes statistics about alcohol consumption, prevalence of alcohol abuse, knowledge of risks of fetal alcohol syndrom and deaths from cirrhosis of the liver; also includes alcohol-related fatal traffic accidents, short-stay hospital discharges, economic data, risk factors in adults, risk behaviors in youth, mortality, heatlh conditions.

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research - Data & Statistics features a Data Query System of clincial indicators (e.g. dental caries, tooth loss) for specific demographic parameters (age, race, gender, poverty, and education); also provides links to oral health disparities and indicators (state & national), oral health of Americans, Surgeon General's report on oral health, and oral health in Healthy People 2010.

Ohio Department of Health Data & Statistics includes statistics about cancer incidence, childhood lead poisoning, immunizations, infectious diseases & STDs, health insurance, Ohio family health survey, women's health, minority health profiles (risk factors, mortiality and morbidity), births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and primary care county profiles.

ProQuest Statistical Datasets (formerly LexisNexis Statistical; exportable data; users guide) includes datasets from many sources, including the US government, international organizations, and the private sector. It covers all subject areas, including banking and finance, criminal justice and law, education, energy resources and demand, food and agriculture, government and politics, health and vital statistics, housing and construction, industry and commerce, international; labor and employment, natural resources and environment, population and income, prices and cost of living, stocks and commodities, and transportation and travel. Users can search datasets by keyword; browse datasets by subject or source; display datasets by trend, map or ranking; and output datasets in print, PDF, delimited, Excel or SAS formats. Datasets can be limited by date and geographic area (country, state, county). Years available varies by dataset; for example, births 1999-present and breast cancer 1973-present. It also features datasets currently in the news, such as crude oil price, 30-year fixed mortgage rate, airline on-time arrival rate, campaign contributions for both Obama and McCain, gasoline prices, the prime rate and the unemployment rate. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by ProQuest. Users will need to run the Java installation.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration - Data & Statistics provides statistics about substance abuse, drug-related emergency department visits & medical examiner cases and substance abuse treatment systems.

Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) includes fact sheets and statistics by cancer site; includes cancer statistics by state & county, including state comparisons and rankings; statistcs about cancer occurrence, survival and trends in the US; cancer statistics review from 1975-2002 (incidence, mortality, survival, prevalence & risk).

State of the States in Developmental Disabilities provides an annual publication on the State of the States as well as a fact sheet profile for each state that includes charts and tables for annual spending, trends in revenue, trends in residential services, and individual & family support.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878-present; updated annually; all full-text) provides data tables for population; vital statistics; health and nutrition; education; law enforcement, courts and prison; geography and environment; parks, recreation, and travel; elections; state and local government; federal government finances and employment; national defense and veteran affairs; social insurance and human services; labor force, employment, and earnings; income, expenditure, and wealth; prices; banking, finance, and insurance; business enterprise; communication and information technology; energy; science and technology; land transportation; air and water transportation; agriculture; natural resources; construction and housing; manufactures; domestic trade and services; foreign countries and aid; outlying areas; comparative international statistics; 20th century statistics; and industrial outlook. Tabular data is available in portable document format (PDF) and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Trust for American's Health provides health-track reports, environmental health risk survey results and Your State's Health that includes health indicators, CDC funding & state ranking, bioterrorism preparedness & spending, HRSA public health spending, health disparities, obesity rate, cancer tracking & birth defects report cards, cancer data by county or state economic area plus comparisons.

U.S. Census Bureau includes statistics about people, business, and geography; economic indicators (poverty, household income, new home sales); area profiles (QuickFacts) by state, county or city; population finder by state, county, city, town or zipcode; and newsroom facts for features.

Disability and American Families 2000 (published in 2005)

WONDER (Centers for Disease Control) includes statistics about mortality, leading cuases of death, underlying cause of death by ICD-10 codes, occupational mortality, fatal accidents, injuries, aging trends, asthma prevalence, cancer incidence, diabetes prevalence, chronic disease prevention, health risks, healthy people 2010, healthy women, AIDS, STDs, tuderculosis, natality, SENSOR (pesticides), risk behaviors, SMART/BRFSS (Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Trends/Risk Behaviors), hazardous substances, and vaccine adverse effects.