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Health Data

Data Collections
  • Social Science Electronic Data Library The Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) from Sociometrics Corp. is a collection of eight data archives:
    • American Family Data Archive (AFDA)
    • AIDS/STD Data Archive (AIDS)
    • Contextual Data Archive
    • Child Well-Being and Poverty Data Archive
    • Data Archive of Social Research on Aging (DASRA)
    • Data Archive on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention (DAAPPP)
    • Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive (MDA)
    • Research Archive on Disability in the U.S. (RADIUS)
    Additionally, they provide an online data analysis system. These dataset can be accessed through the SU Library Databases page.
  • Health and Medical Care Archive "preserves and disseminates data collected by research projects funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care in the United States. A project of ICPSR, HMCA is supported by the Foundation."
  • National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging : "research on aging by helping researchers to profit from the under-exploited potential of a broad range of datasets. NACDA acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research, processing as needed to promote effective research use, disseminates them to researchers, and facilitates their use."
  • National Center for Helath Statistics A division of the Center for Disease Control, the NCHS is the United States' preeminent collector if health and vital statistics. Some of their more interesting projects are:

Health Services and Systems

  • National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey "contains data on medical care provided in physicians' offices. It is a continuously sampled survey based on a nationwide sample of patient records."
  • National Hospital Discharge Survey In 1964, the National Center for Health Statistics initiated a continuous sample of hospital discharge records, collecting medical and demographic information for calculating statistics on hospital utilization, and on the nature and treatment of illness among the hospitalized population.
  • Medical Expenditure Panel Survey "Data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope, and breadth of private health insurance held by and available to the U.S. population."

Substance Abuse

  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive: The goal of the archive is to provide ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data and to promote the sharing of these data among researchers, academics, policymakers, service providers, and others, thereby increasing the use of the data in understanding and assessing substance abuse and mental health problems and the impact of related treatment systems.
  • National Survey On Drug Use and Health provides yearly national and state level estimates of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drug, and non-medical prescription drug use. Other health-related questions also appear from year to year, including questions about mental health. Prior to 2002, the survey was known as the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). (ICPSR has many of these datasets available for extraction and analysis via the web.)

Aging

  • Health and Retirement Study intended to provide data for researchers, policy analysts, and program planners who are making major policy decisions that affect retirement, health insurance, saving and economic well-being.

Adolescents

  • National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) A nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors.

International Data

  • HNPStats the World BankĘs Health, Nutrition and Population data platform. HNPStats is a one-stop data source for health, nutrition and population indicators from various national and international data sources. It provides direct access to more than 100 indicators, with time series for countries and country groups from 1960 to the most recent year, where data are available.
  • WHO Statistical Information System "The guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization."
  • Data Online for Population, Helath, and Nutrition An online database provided by the Population, Health and Nutrition Information project of the United States Agency for International Development.
  • Canadian Institute for Health Informa A non-profit institute, the CIHI collects and provides data on Canadian health information.
  • Demographic and Health Surveys Demographic and Health Surveys provide national and sub-national data on family planning, maternal and child health, child survival, HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infections (STIs), infectious diseases, reproductive health and nutrition. Most data are free, but you must register before downloading.
  • Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey This program follows a cohort of Filipino women who gave birth between May 1, 1983, and April 30, 1984. Originally conceptualized as a study of infant feeding patterns and how feeding decisions interact with social, economic, and environmental factors to affect health, nutritional, demographic, and economic outcomes, this cohort was reinterviewed in 1991-2, 1994, and 1999.
 
 
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