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Indexes & Abstracts


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/ 
GLOBAL HEALTH ON CAB DIRECT
'Search two million bibliographic records about world health between 1910 to the present encompassing scientific literature on a global scale from both the developing and developed world.' 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5306066 
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  
SPSS TRAINING
SPSS training is available at Teacher's College. Please, check TC's class schedule for availability of SPSS classes. 
URL: http://devtc4.tc.columbia.edu/workshop/user/overview.php 
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Guides


BLACK AMERICANS: A STATISTICAL SOURCEBOOK
REF E185.86 B52. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF PHYSICIANS
U.S. by the state. 52 vols. 
Ref RA 410.7 C37. 
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE IN NEW YORK CITY: LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Serial 
Ref RA407.4 .N7 H34. 
HEALTH CARE ANNUAL. DATA ON HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK
United Hospital Fund. 1980 
Ref RA 447 N48 H33. 
HEALTH CARE STATE RANKINGS
1993- 
Ref RA 445 H3425. 
HEALTH CONDITIONS IN THE AMERICAS
1960- Latest in Ref (Title: HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS). 
Ref RA10 P192. 
HEALTH OF THE CITY
NYC Department of Health. 
Ref RA 407.4 N7 H36. 
HEALTH PERSONNEL IN THE UNITED STATES
Eight Report to the Congress. 1991. 
Ref RA410.6 H42. 
HEALTH STATISTICS FROM THE AMERICAS
1991- 
Ref RA10 H45. 
HEALTH STATUS OF MINORITIES AND LOW-INCOME GROUPS
3rd ed. 1991. 
Ref RA 448.4 R83. 
HEALTH, UNITED STATES
1975- U.S. DHDW publ. 
Ref RA 407.5 N7 H36. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AQU8425  
HISPANIC AMERICANS: A STATISTICAL SOURCEBOOK
REF E184 S75 H27. 
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  
HOSPITAL STATISTICS
American Hospital Association. 1971 
Ref RA 983 A4 H79. 
LENGTH OF STAY SERIES
Statistical serials (on hospital statistics) include Length of Stay by diagnosis, operation, procedure in the United States and Northeastern region. 
Latest volume in Reference, RA981.A5. Previous volumes in Ref Serials.. 
LIFE INSURANCE FACT BOOK
American Council of Life Insurance. 1981 
Ref HG 8943 L62. 
NEW JERSEY HEALTH STATISTICS
1971, 1982- Serial REF 
RA 407.4 N5 N2, RA407.4 .N5 N42. 
NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY HEALTH ATLAS
Ref G 1254 N4 E53 K7. 
PHYSICIAN CHARACTERISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION.IN THE U.S.
1981- 
Ref RA 410.7 P56. 
PHYSICIAN MARKETPLACE STATISTICS : PROFILES FOR DETAILED SPECIALTIES, SELECTED STATES AND PRACTICE ARRANGEMENTS. AMA CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH
1988 
Ref R 729.P48. 
PHYSICIAN SUPPLY AND CHARACTERISTICS IN NEW YORK STATE
1980-1990. 
Ref RA 410.8 N49. 
SEAMIC HEALTH STATISTICS
1980- 
Ref RA 407.5 As78. 
SELECTED HEALTH STATISTICS FOR COUNTIES WITH NUCLEAR FACILITIES
1960-1983 New York State. 
Ref RA 407.4 N7 T37. 
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
U.S. DHHS/CDCP publ.1989- 
Ref RA 644 V4 S4. 
SOURCE BOOK OF HEALTH INSURANCE DATA
New York. Health Insurance Institute. 
Ref HG 9369 So8. 
THE HEALTH ALMANAC
Ref RA 407.3 M26. 
THE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE ALMANAC: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL: FACTS, FIGURES, ANALYSIS
Ref RA 407 U5. 
WOMEN'S HEALTH USA
RA 778 W65. 
WORLD HEALTH STATISTICS. ANNUAL
1962- World Health Organization. 
Serial W Ref STX. 
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Directories and Associations


AAMC AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES
Under About AAMC, Medical Education categories, etc., under Student, Applicant, and Advisor Information category and then under FACTS - Applicants, Matriculants and Graduates offers statistics in medical education and academic medicine by various criteria. 
URL: http://www.aamc.org/data/start.htm 
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
515 N.State St. Chicago, IL 60610 tel. (312) 464-5000 
URL: http://www.ama-assn.org/ 
ASA BIOMETRICS SECTION
URL: http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/Biometrics/ 
ASA HEALTH POLICY STATISTICS SECTION
URL: http://www.amstat-online.org/sections/hpss/hpssindex.htm 
ASA SECTION ON STATISTICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY(SIE)
URL: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/asasie/ 
ASA SECTION ON TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN HEALTH SCIENCES
URL: http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/ASA_TSHS/ 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (NAPHSIS)
1220 19th St., N.W., Suite 802 Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone Number:202-463-8851 Fax Number:202-463-4870 
URL: http://www.naphsis.org/ 
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Internet Guides and Resources


ADMINISTRATION ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (ACF)
(DHHS). Under Statistics on Children topic or Data Sheets category offers miscellaneous demographical and social statistics on children and families 
URL: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/ 
ALAN GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE (AGI)
Specializes in reproductive health research. Offers statistics on teenage pregnancy, abortions, std, etc. AGI is an independent, not-for-profit corporation, a special affiliate of PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 
URL: http://www.agi-usa.org/ 
AMERICA'S HEALTH: STATE HEALTH RANKINGS
Produced by the United Health Foundation. 
URL: http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr.html 
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
Offers statistics on lung diseases including lung cancer. 
URL: http://www.lungusa.org/data/index2.html 
CAREC - CARIBBEAN EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE
It "is administered on behalf of 21 Member Countries by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization's Regional Office for the Americas. CAREC enjoys an international reputation for its work in support of Public Health in the Caribbean." Offers statistics on HIV/AIDS by country; communicable disease report archives; population data; social and economic indicators and vital statistics, etc.  
URL: http://www.carec.org/ 
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/ 
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/ 
CURRENT POPULATION REPORTS ONLINE
U.S. Census Bureau.  Offers Series: P20, Population Characteristics P23, Special Studies P60, Consumer Income and Poverty P70, Household Economic Studies P25, Population Estimates and Projections. 
URL: http://www.census.gov/main/www/cprs.html 
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/ 
DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS
DHS Surveys provide large sample data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health (including aid/hiv) and nutrition. Scope: international. 
URL: http://www.measuredhs.com/ 
DHHS - US DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
'DHHS is a department of the federal executive branch which is concerned with health and welfare work of the federal government.' On its Web site offers Press Releases and Fact Sheets, information on current issues at HHS,etc. Under Policies and Regulations category offers comprehensive collection of Healthcare Standards, Laws and Regulations, Policies and Guidelines. Under 'HHS Family of Agencies' category provides links to the individual WEB sites of DHHS agencies and offices: Office of the Secretary (OS); Administration on Aging (AoA); Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ); Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR); Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC); Administration for Children & Families (ACF); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA); Indian Health Service (IHS); Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); National Institutes of Health (NIH); Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  
URL: http://www.hhs.gov 
DHHS OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PLANNING AND EVALUATION (ASPE)
Under ASPE Policy and Research Topics select a topic such as: children with disabilities, children health insurance, domestic violence, general health insurance, homelessness, immigrants, teen pregnancy, working adults with disabilities, welfare issues, etc. 
URL: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/ 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STATISTICS IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
'Presents accessible, high quality articles that are lively, statistically sound and with many practical examples. It provides complete coverage of current statistical methods ranging through confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, random effect/multilevel modeling, generalized linear models, computationally intensive methods such as the bootstrap, and many more.' 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5556889 
FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION
Families USA is a "national nonprofit organization dedicated to the achievement of high- quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans." Produces health policy reports, intends to serve as a consumer clearinghouse for information about the health care system, conducts public information campaigns on public health issues, etc. Offers information including publications, often created by contract with other organizations, on children's health, children's health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, etc. 
URL: http://www.familiesusa.org/ 
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/ 
HEALTH UNITED STATES (ONLINE)
Health-related statistics for the United States. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AQU8425 
HEALTH, UNITED STATES
1975- U.S. DHDW publ. 
Ref RA 407.5 N7 H36. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AQU8425  
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  
IARC - INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER
"The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization. IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. The Agency is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and disseminates scientific information through publications, meetings, courses, and fellowships." Offers publications and databases "including the Monographs Database containing a complete list of agents, mixtures and exposures, all evaluated with their classifications, the Cancer Epidemiolgy Database which provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer worldwide, IARC's TP53 Database, and other useful resources. IARC Resources: IARC Monographs Database on Carcinogenic Risks to Humans; IARC Cancer Epidemiology Database; IARC Screening Group; IARC TP53 Database; EPIC - European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition; Genetic Epidemiology Database; INHANCE - International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium; ILCCO - International Lung Cancer Consortium" etc. and related resources:" CAREX - International Information on Occupational Exposure to Carcinogens compiled by the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, in collaboration with IARC", etc.  
URL: http://www.iarc.fr/ 
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/ 
KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION
"The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation." Offers evaluation, surveys and statistics on major health issues - Medicaid, Medicare, Health Insurance, etc. Offers comprehensive statistical reports, e.g. "Medicaid Enrollment in 50 states" with annual updates, etc.  
URL: http://www.kff.org/ 
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 DATA ARCHIVE ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
Child abuse statistics resource. 
URL: http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/ 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (NIMH)
Offers statistics on the prevalence of the mental disorders. 
URL: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM (NIAAA)
Offers alcohol and alcoholism statistics under Publications category, Databases category (Quick Facts), etc. 
URL: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/ 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE (NIDA)
Offers surveys results like The Monitoring the Future Study which has released 1998 data for alcohol and drug use by students in 8th, 10th and 12th grades; reports like Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States, 1992 Report, etc. Under NIDA INFOFAX offers Survey Data. 
URL: http://www.nida.nih.gov/ 
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (NOFAS)
URL: http://www.nofas.org/faqs.aspx?ID=5 
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (DOH)
Provides Vital Records application instructions, under Health Alerts offers current information on health issues in NYC, under Health Topics A-Z offers concise guidelines on various illnesses and healthcare issues and related NYC information, under Public Information offers Press Releases, health fairs and other events schedules, meetings and seminars, etc. Under DOH Publications offers full text of publications on various public health issues like lead poisoning, AIDS, asthma, tuberculosis, rabies prevention, school admission requirements, immunization, etc. in PDF format. Provides city hotlines phone numbers, etc. 
URL: http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/ 
NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH STATISTICAL PORTAL - EPIQUERY
EpiQuery, a component of NYCDOH My Community Health umbrella portal, offers NYC health, vital, youth, demographic, etc. statistics down to the neiborhood level. Publications presented at My Community Health site report statistics and contain research based on statistics compiled. 
URL: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/community/community.shtml 
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/ 
NUTRITION COUNTRY PROFILES
Offers nutrition related health statistics for individual countries. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5245738 
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY (ONDCP)
Under Drug Facts and Stats category offers statistics on drug abuse. Look for statistics also under Publications category and under State and Local category. 
URL: http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/ 
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/ 
PREVLINE. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG INFORMATION SERVICE (SAMHSA)
Offers alcohol and drug statistics by subject, etc. 
URL: http://www.health.org/ 
SAFETY AND HEALTH STATISTICS
(Bureau of Labor Statistics) Comprehensive coverage of occupational accidents, injuries, safety statistics. 
URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/ 
SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS (ORES)
Provides ongoing statistical data and research analyses of the old- age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. 
URL: http://www.ssa.gov/policy/ 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH DATA ARCHIVE (SAMHDA)
Provides ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data. Provides links to related Internet sites. 
URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/ 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (SAMHSA)
Offers statistics and data collection methodology. 
URL: http://www.samhsa.gov/ 
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
(INCLUDES LINKS TO GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL AGENCIES BY COUNTRY WORLDWIDE AND U.S. STATE STATISTICAL SITES BY STATE). Offers population statistics, including vital statistics under related sites. 
URL: http://www.census.gov/ 
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/ 
URBAN INSTITUTE
A nonprofit economic and social policy research organization. Under Research - By Topic - Social Welfare offers research papers on public health and health insurance. Also offers assessment of Medicaid and health insurance trends under Research - By Topic - Federalism, etc. 
URL: http://www.urban.org/ 
WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL STATISTICS BRIEFING ROOM (SSBR)
Coverage includes U.S. and world demographic statistics. 
URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html 
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/ 
WOMEN'S HEALTH
Office of Women's Health.  This site, sponsored by DHSS, offers statistics on women's health, health disparities profiles and other public health information on multiple aspects of women's health 
URL: http://www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/index.html 
WOMEN'S HEALTH USA - HRSA
Offers statistics on women's health in the USA. Provided by HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bereau. 
URL: http://www.hrsa.gov/womenshealth/ 
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/ 
YOUTH INDICATORS
(NCES). Offers statistics on youth pregnancies, abortions, etc. 
URL: http://nces.ed.gov/help/sitemap.asp 
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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/ 


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