LibGuides: Public Health: Data & Statistics

Health Equity & Health Disparities

Health Equity Assessment Toolkit
The Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT and HEAT Plus) is a software application that facilitates the exploration, analysis, and reporting of health inequalities.
Slone Epidemiology Center Black Women's Health Study
Black women have higher rates of many illnesses such as hypertension, breast cancer at young ages, diabetes, stroke, and lupus.

Health Data

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
NORC Health
Our expertise in health-related issues, from aging to immunizations to insurance and health systems, informs programs and policies that affect the lives of millions.

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Local

Boston Indicators Project
Boston Public Health Commission
Provides the latest reports from Boston health professionals about important public health issues, including the Health of Boston report.
Ending Homelessness in Boston
County Health Rankings

How to Collect, Analyze, & Use Statistics

National Library of Medicine

Booklet 3: Collecting & Analyzing Evaluation Data

UCLA's Statistical Methods & Data Analytics: Provides advice and resources to enable you to develop and/or extend your statistical computing skills, helping you to independently use common statistical packages for the analysis of research data.

MPlus: Statistical modeling program that provides researchers with a flexible tool to analyze their data.
R: Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
SAS: Statistical Analysis System for data analysis and report writing.
STATA: Statistical package for managing, analyzing, and graphing data

AHA's Community Health Assessment Toolkit

Step 4: Deepen understanding & increase equity through data

Social Determinants of Health

National Center for Health Statistics The primary health statistics agency for the U.S. Includes statistics on topics such as diseases and prevention, injuries, healthcare and insurance, life stages and populations, and lifestyles.
WHO Data & Statistics Provides access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.
CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System On-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.
CDC FastStats Provides quick access to statistics on topics of importance to public health. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health
AHRQ Measuring Healthcare Quality
America's Health Rankings
OASH Promotion’s Healthy People 2030
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR)
Kaiser Family Foundation

World Bank Group Education Statistics
The Condition of Education Educational indicators, assessments for all grade levels, surveys, and much more.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history.
The School District Demographics System
OECD Education at a Glance 2023

Gender Data Portal The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, access to economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency.

Administration for Families & Children Analyzes and reports data on a variety of topics, including adoption, foster care, and child abuse and neglect.
Administration on Aging Find a wide variety of statistical information about people 65+.
ChildStats Features statistics on children and families in the United States across a range of domains, including family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Kids Count Data Center This online data center addresses the topic of child well-being. Includes data by state, and data that spans across states. Popular topics are children in poverty, high school dropouts, children in immigrant families, and children in single-parent families.

General Statistics

Sage Data
Simplifies data analysis by providing an all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study.
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SimplyAnalytics
SimplyAnalytics has all the data you need to answer key research questions and understand the socio-demographic and economic conditions of Boston and any geographic area in the United States.

Public Health: Data & Statistics