Health Statistics
Helpful resources for Kansas, Missouri, U.S. and International statistics.
Research & Learning
Finding and Using Health Statistics
Health Statistics provide information for understanding, monitoring, improving and planning the use of resources to improve the lives of people, provide services and promote their well-being.
- Finding and Using Health Statistics CourseThe National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) has created a course that describes the range of available health statistics, identifies their sources and helps researchers better understand how to use information about their structure as they search.
- Find Health Statistics by TopicA table to find health resources from reliable sources by the NNLM.
Resources to Help You Get Started
- National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)Looks at outcomes, access, literature synthesis, public reporting, underserved, quality, data collection methods, etc.
Access data, reports, surveys, and tools. - Medline Plus: Health StatisticsHealth statistics are numbers about some aspect of health.
- Glossary of Statistical TermsA statistical term glossary with the ability to search for definitions.
- Khan Academy- StatisticsKhan Academy links to statistics videos and statistics topics.
- Statistics ExplainedThis website, created by the European Commission (Eurostat), explains basic statistical themes.
Healthy People 2030
- Healthy People 2030provides a comprehensive set of 10-year, national goals and objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
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