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International Statistics

• World Health Statistics Annual. World Health Organization.
  The 1996 edition of the World Health Statistics Annual, the last to appear in printed form, is located in D. H. Hill Ref RA651 .A485 1996; 1962-1995 editions are at Satellite Shelving
  

  "Vols. for 1962-1984 issued in 3 parts: pt. 1, Vital statistics and causes of death; pt. 2, Infectious diseases: cases, deaths, and vaccinations; and: pt. 3, Health personnel and hospital establishments. Text in English and French."
  

  More current information is available from the World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) (http://www3.who.int/whosis/)

  "The guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical
  information available from the World Health Organization."

  • WHO Mortality Database

  • Statistical Annexes of the World Health Report 2002 (http://www.who.int/whr/2002/annex/en/).

    Available in in English, French and Spanish. Basic health indicators, deaths, burden of disease, healthy life expectancy, national health accounts, etc.

United States Statistics

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/)
    • FASTATS A to Z (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm)

  • CDC WONDER (http://wonder.cdc.gov/)

    "CDC WONDER provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, recommendations, and numeric public health data and statistics."

    List of CDC WONDER Data Sets that can be queried or viewed (http://wonder.cdc.gov/Menu.shtml)

• AHA Guide to the Health Care Field. American Hospital Association. Annual.
  D. H. Hill Ref. Desk RA977 .A1 A46 2003/2004; older volumes in bookstacks.

  Companion volume to Hospital Statistics (American Hospital Association). Contains selected data about individual hospitals.

• Hospital Statistics (American Hospital Association). Annual.
  D. H. Hill Ref RA981 .A2 H67 2004

  Draws its data from the AHA Annual Survey of Hospitals. The 2004 ed. is the statistical complement to the 2003-2004 edition of the AHA Guide.
  

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