CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS (CIS)
CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS (CIS). The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS- ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present from selected journals, and selected books in statistics published since 1974. 
URL: http://query.statindex.org/ 

EDS - ELECTRONIC DATA SERVICE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
EDS is CU libraries and ACIS service that supports CU community in the use of statistical data sources. It provides statistical sources, software as well as offers Reference assistance in using statistical data,including raw data sets, GIS, etc. Offers DataGate,the local archive comprised of ICPSR, Roper, SSEDL, etc. EDS is physically located at the CU Lehman Social Sciences Library on the Morningside Campus. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/ 

HSUS ONLINE - HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES
A database format of 'Expanded and revised edition of: Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial ed. Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975. "Many [data] series in these volumes are continued on a regular basis with periodic updates and revisions by the agency, group, or individual responsible for the original data."--Guide to the Millennial ed. This database is an online version of the new five-volume printed edition: Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present' Includes socio-economic characteristics, demographic data, vital statistics, etc. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5634151 

INFOSHARE ONLINE
A database of statistics about New York City. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/3105451.html 

LEXIS NEXIS STATISTICAL
'Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.' 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?APK8288 

MEDLINE (OVID)
Three separate components of Medline available through OVID interface: Medline 1966 - present (offers author/journal/keyword/subject, or MESH, searching), Oldmedline 1950 - 1965 (offers same but subject searching), and In-Process around 2 recent months (offers same but subject searching).  
URL: http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/eres/countact.cfm?resourceid=1301 

POPLINE
citations and abstracts for publications related to population, family planning, and related health issues. Coverage from 1970- present. Includes international demographic research. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/popline.html 

POPULATION INDEX
'Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.'  
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?APH1576  

A SUMMARY EXAMINATION OF EXCESS MORTALITY IN CENTRAL HARLEM AND THE NEW YORK CITY
Office of Strategic Planning. NYC Health and Hospital Corp.1991 
Ref HB1337 N7 S85. 

CAUSES OF DEATH. LIFE TABLES FOR NATIONAL POPULATIONS
Selected countries. 
Ref HB1371 P922. 

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ATLAS OF "AVOIDABLE DEATH"
Ref RA 483 E87. 

FAMILY PLANNING AND CHILD SURVIVAL. 100 DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Center for Population and Family Health. Columbia University. 1988 
Ref QH766 F3. 

HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, COLONIAL TIMES TO 1970
U.S. Bureau of Census. 
Ref HA202 Un32. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5018932  

INFANT AND PERINATAL MORTALITY RATES BY AGE AND RACE. U.S. EACH STATE AND COUNTY
1971-80, 1976-85. 
Ref HB1323 I4 In2. 

INTERNATIONAL MORTALITY STATISTICS
Ref HB1321 A12. 

MEDICAL RISKS: TRENDS IN MORTALITY BY AGE AND TIME ELAPSED
Society for Actuaries. 
Ref RA 407.3 M43. 

MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT, ANNUAL SUMMARY
1995- 
Serial M. 

MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT, SURVEILLANCE SUMMARIES
1983- 
Serial M. 

MORTALITY FROM CARDIOVASCULAR AND NON-CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES FOR U.S. CITIES
DHEW publ. 1949-50, 1959-61, 1969-71. 
Ref RA 407.3 F32. 

MORTALITY STATISTICS
England and Wales.London, Gr.Brit.Office of Population Censuses. 1974- Separate volumes for: general, childhood mortality, accidents and violence, injuries and poisoning, perinatal and infant; social and biological factors. One volume contains 1841-1990 summary. 
Serial M. 

MORTALITY STUDY OF ONE MILLION PERSONS BY DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC FACTORS
NIH publ. 
Ref HB1335 M68. 

TOTAL MORTALITY AND MORTALITY FROM HEART DISEASES, CANCER,AND STROKE FROM 1950 TO 1987 IN 27 COUNTRIES
Ref HB1321 T68. 

U.S. DECENNIAL LIFE TABLES
1969- DHHS Publications. 
Ref HB1335 Un39. 

YOUTH SUICIDE IN THE UNITED STATES
1970-1980. DHHS publ. 1986 
HS STX RC569. Y68. 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY (AAS)
URL: http://www.suicidology.org/ 

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION (AFSP)
URL: http://www.afsp.org/ 

AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
1429 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314-3402, USA; Voice: 703- 684-1221; Toll-free: 888-231-3473 
URL: http://www.amstat.org/ 

ATLAS OF UNITED STATES MORTALITY
Shows all leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas (HSA's), etc. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/products/pubs/pubd/other/atlas/atlas.htm 

CAUSES OF DEATH
Commercial Disaster Center provides statistics on causes of death by age and disease, including accidents. 
URL: http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/ 

CDC WONDER
Provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. Query statistical data sets, or retrieve reports and guidelines. 
URL: http://wonder.cdc.gov/ 

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
(DHHS). CDC's concern is prevention and control of communicable diseases, environmental health, etc. Offers online information in categories: Travelers' Health, Health Topics A-Z, Publicatioins, Software & Products, Data and Statistics, etc. Offers links to the WEB sites of CDC's 11 centers, institute and offices. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ 

CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
Offers Children in the States data, other statistical information, etc. 
URL: http://www.childrensdefense.org/ 

CHILDSTATS
Offers child and family statistics. Presents America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (the annual Federal monitoring report on the status of the Nation's children), which includes statistics on population and family characteristics, etc. 
URL: http://childstats.gov/ 

COMPREHENSIVE EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA RESOURCE (CEDR)
(U.S. Deparment of Energy - DOE). Provides public access to health and exposure data concerning DOE installations: data from epidemiologic studies, studies of populations residing near DOE installations, and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters. Includes health and mortality data sets, classic radiation data sets, community epidemiologic studies, etc. 
URL: http://cedr.lbl.gov/ 

COUNTRY HEALTH PROFILES
(Pan American Health Organization - PAHO). Offers population, health and epidemiology statistics as Health in the Americas publication as well as Individual country profiles. Covers all countries of the Americas. PAHO's country profile database functions as the official regional information source on mortality in the Americas. 
URL: http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm 

COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK.
Offers electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets. Data includes demographics, vital and socioeconomic statistics for U.S. in general, states, counties, and cities. 
URL: http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/ccdb/ 

DATA.GOV
"... Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov." "Data.gov includes searchable catalogs that provide access to "raw" datasets and various tools. In the "raw" data catalog, you may access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMZ, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats. The catalog of tools links you to sites that include data mining and extraction tools and widgets." 
URL: http://www.data.gov/ 

FEDSTATS (FEDERAL STATISTICS)
Offers statistics produced for public use by more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies. Allows to search for statistics by agency, by program (subject), by subject alphabetically (A to Z), by keyword (search the entire site), by region (county, state, country approach), provides links to other sites, etc. Site Map provided helps easy choice of search approach. Under Fast Facts provides links to and allows to view the full text of Statistical Abstract of the United States, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, Socioeconomic Status, etc. Accidents and injuries statistics can be found in Programs under Safety Statistics category. 
URL: http://www.fedstats.gov/ 

HCUP - HEALTHCARE COST AND UTILIZATION PROJECT
AHRQ - Agency for Heatlhcare Research and Quality.  Produced by AHRQ "HCUP Databases include the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. HCUPnet provides free, immediate access to national, regional, and State-level hospital inpatient statistics based on HCUP data. HCUP Tools & Software help health services researchers and decision makers to use HCUP and other similar databases. HCUP Reports feature new findings, publications, research notes based on HCUP data, and technical reports about HCUP issues." 
URL: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/ 

HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, COLONIAL TIMES TO 1970
U.S. Bureau of Census. 
Ref HA202 Un32. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5018932  

INFONATION
(U.N.) InfoNation is an easy-to- use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. Data for each country includes demography, socioeconomic statistics, etc. 
URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm 

INITIATIVE TO ELIMINATE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH (DHHS)
Offers minority population health statistics in several health areas including Cancer Screening and Management. 
URL: http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov/ 

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH (NBER)
Under Publications offers full- text papers, many of which contain statistics in various economic and social areas, including demographics.. All papers are searchable by keyword. 
URL: http://www.nber.org/ 

NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (NCHS)
Under Data Warehouse offers miscellaneous health related statistics in format of tables, charts, etc. Comprehensive vital statistics can be found under Publications and Information Products category. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH)
Offers statistics on the prevalence of the mental disorders. 
URL: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ 

NEW YORK CITY DEPT OF CITY PLANNING
Offers demographic, vital and socieconomic statistics for NYC including stats by community district, etc. 
URL: http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.shtml 

NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
The site offers information in following categories: a From the Commissioner page; Directory Services (lists phone numbers, helplines, AIDS - HIV Counseling and Testing services, Mammography Facilities, etc.); How to get NYS vital records information; Information for Consumers (by subject and lists NYS facilities for each subject and disease like Nursing Homes and Long Term Care facilities, etc.); Information for Providers - for physicians and other health care providers (by subject); Information for Researchers; and the Public Health Forum (allows to search some titles from NYS Health Rules and Regulations; provides full- text of the Public Health Law, NYS; offers notices of public meetings, hearings, conferences, etc.). Provides links to the Department's Wadsworth Center (the most comprehensive public health laboratory in the nation), the School of Public Health, Health Research, Inc., the NYS Partnership for Long-Term Care, Helen Hayes Hospital, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Task Force on Life and the Law as well as links to other NYS government resources and health-related sites. Offers comprehensive statistics on diseases, like AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, etc., in NYS, under STATISTICS & DATA category.  
URL: http://www.health.state.ny.us/ 

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION - PAHO
The most comprehensive and reliable source of demographic and health statistics and other health and healthcare information for Americas. Includes Country Health Profiles. 
URL: http://www.paho.org/ 

SAFETY AND HEALTH STATISTICS
(Bureau of Labor Statistics) Comprehensive coverage of occupational accidents, injuries, safety statistics. 
URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/ 

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU: U.S. STATE DATA CENTERS
Offers U.S. statistics by state. 
URL: http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/ 

U.S. COUNTY PATTERNS OF MORTALITY BY RACE: 1965-1994
URL: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/bdu/papers/usbodi/index.html 

UNITED NATIONS
Under Economic and Social Development category offers important subcategories and links. Under Humanitarian Affairs the Land Mines category provides land mines casualty data by country, and the ReliefWeb link offers natural disaster incidence by country, etc. 
URL: http://www.un.org/ 

UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
Offers maternal and children's health, nutrition, mortality, environmental statistics under Statistics category and under Publications: see such publications as The State of World's Children, The Progress of Nations, UNICEF Annual Reports, etc. 
URL: http://www.unicef.org/ 

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Offers information on trends in international welfare and public health. The site can be searched by keyword. 
URL: http://www.undp.org/ 

UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION
Offers miscellaneous international indicators and statistics with links to Internet statistics sites. Covers population, demography, socioeconomic factors, vital statistics. Presents statistics on all aspects of World's Women: demographic, socioeconomic, labor, education, health, etc. 
URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/ 

WOMEN OF COLOR HEALTH DATA BOOK
(National Women's Health Information Center - NWHIC). Offers statistics on demographics of women of color (black, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic). Special attention is given to age groups: adolescent and elderly. 
URL: http://www.4woman.gov/HealthPro/statistics/ 

WORLD BANK
Offers World Development Indicators (data includes demographics), World Development Reports, Country Data, Data by Topics, etc. under Data category. 
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/ 

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO)
Directing and coordinating authority on international health work. Information on biologicals, medicines, vaccines and substances under international control. The site can be searched by keyword. 
URL: http://www.who.int/en/ 

WORLD STATISTICS
(Information Please Almanac). World Stats. category offers statistics including abortions for selected countries of the world. 
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ 

PARTNERS IN INFORMATION ACCESS FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE
"Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet." Offers links to useful Public Health and statistical resources in multiple categories. The PHPartners offers RSS feed that would 'keep you informed about news in public health, upcoming meetings, and new public health online resources. The PHPartners feed address is http://phpartners.org/rss_phpartners.xml. More information on how to subscribe to PHPartners RSS feeds is available at http://phpartners.org/rss_information.html.'  
URL: http://phpartners.org/