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Health statistics are numbers that summarize information related to health. Researchers and experts from government, private, and non-profit agencies and organizations collect health statistics. They use the statistics to learn about public health and health care. Some of the types of statistics include:

  • How many people in the country have a disease or how many people got the disease within a certain period of time
  • How many people of a certain group have a disease. The groups could be based on location, race, ethnic group, sex, age, profession, income level, or level of education. This can help identify health disparities.
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Start Here

  • FastStats: A to Z (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • Health, United States, 2018 (National Center for Health Statistics)

Related Issues

  • FastStats: Deaths and Mortality (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • FastStats: Leading Causes of Death (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • FastStats: Life Expectancy (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • Global Health Observatory (GHO): Mortality and Global Health Estimates (World Health Organization)
  • Leading Health Indicators -- Healthy People 2030 (Department of Health and Human Services)
  • National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Birth Data (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • State Health Facts (KFF)
  • Top 10 Causes of Death in the World (World Health Organization) Also in Spanish

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  • Article: Statistics as a Tool in the Physician's Black Bag.
  • Article: A network analysis of statistics anxiety symptoms and their antecedents in...
  • Article: Commonly Used Statistical Methods in Occupational Therapy Research.
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  • MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

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  • National Center for Health Statistics
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Children

  • America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
  • America's Young Adults (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics) - PDF
  • Death among children and adolescents (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
  • FastStats: Child Health (National Center for Health Statistics)
  • Infant Mortality (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • Infant Mortality: Death Rates among Infants by Detailed Race and Hispanic Origin of Mother, Selected Years 1983-2021 (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)

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  • FastStats: Adolescent Health (National Center for Health Statistics)

Men

  • FastStats: Men's Health (National Center for Health Statistics)

Women

  • FastStats: Women's Health (National Center for Health Statistics)

Older Adults

  • FastStats: Older Persons' Health (National Center for Health Statistics)

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