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| | AHRQ: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) |
| | Largest all-payer collection of hospital inpatient care statistical information in the United States. Includes a national database and the database of 22 states.
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Bacterial Foodborne Disease: Medical Costs and Productivity Losses |
| | Report from the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. "Microbial pathogens in food cause an estimated 6.5-33 million cases of human illness and up to 9,000 deaths in the United States each year."
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer741/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System |
| | The world's largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States.
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Compilation of Complementary/Alternative Healthcare Data |
| | This manual attempts to facilitate efficient access to data from federally funded large-scale surveys which contain specific reference to chiropractic and complementary/alternative healthcare. [Short survey to be completed before access to manual - ed]
http://w3.palmer.edu/carber/compilation/manualhome.asp - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Country Health Profiles - Pan American Health Organization |
| | Data and analysis on health and related sociological factors in the nations of the Americas.
http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | HCUPnet |
| | A tool for identifying, tracking, analyzing, and comparing statistics on hospitals at the national, regional, and State level.
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/hcupnet.htm - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online |
| | A resource for free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 US states. View state profiles or compare state data by choosing from over 200 topics.
http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | The National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems |
| | Health information to enhance the public's health. FAQs discuss vital statistics and who is collecting and accessing them.
http://www.naphsis.org/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | National Center for Health Statistics |
| | Provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality. Public use data files are available for download.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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| | National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics |
| | Serves as the statutory public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the area of health data and statistics.
http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ - New window - Cached - Archive - |
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