Health Science

AskCHIS™ is a free online health query system from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that allows users to search for health statistics by county, region, and state. Drawing upon the responses of 20,000+ Californians interviewed each year by the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), AskCHIS™ provides data on a wide range of topics across many sociodemographic factors. (description from website)

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the nation’s principal health statistics agency, providing data to identify and address health issues. NCHS compiles statistical information to help guide public health and health policy decisions. (description from website)

HealthStats is the World Bank’s portal to its comprehensive collection of Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) statistics. It includes over 250 indicators on topics such as health financing and the health workforce; immunization and the incidence of HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases and the causes of death; nutrition, clean water and sanitation, and reproductive health; as well as population estimates and population projections. Users can access HNP data by country, wealth quintile, topic, or indicator. The resulting data are made available through tables, charts or maps. (description from website)

A publication of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) focused on health conditions and trends in the countries and territories of the Americas and the Caribbean. The new Health in the Americas+ portal centralizes access to information and data published in Health in the Americas reports, from the most recent edition back to the first edition, from 1954. (description adapted from website)

Since 1980, the Healthy People initiative has set measurable objectives to improve the health and well-being of people nationwide. At the beginning of every decade, the US Department of Health and Human Services launches a new iteration of the initiative that addresses the latest public health priorities and challenges. Healthy People 2030 is the initiative’s fifth iteration. (description from website)