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This database provides demographic data from U.S. sources including the Decennial Census, American Community Survey (ACS), County Business Patterns, Population Estimates, LEHD and more. Many of these data sets are available at detailed geographic levels, down to a few city blocks. It also includes World Development Indicators from the World Bank, European Statistics, the UK and Canadian Censuses from 2011, and religion data from Ireland (1911-2001).
Many countries have open access portals for data from their governments.
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Virginia specific data
This data portal was developed to provide an access point for health-related data for Virginia. This portal is a comprehensive source for community health assessment, public, and population health data. Each data portal page provides interactive data at the most granular level available.
The Virginia Cancer Dashboards are a collection of individual dashboards providing cancer data by locality, health district, sex, race, and cancer site. The dashboards demonstrate the burden of cancer incidence and mortality in Virginia. They cover aggregate data for the years 2015 - 2019.
The Epidemiology Reports section includes reports from epidemiologists and data scientists at the Virginia Department of Health on important public health topics.
This dashboard is updated on weekdays (Monday – Friday) in July and August, and weekly on Mondays in May, June, and September.
National data
Bact Facts Interactive allows you to view data from Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs), a part of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP). ABCs is laboratory- and population-based surveillance that monitors invasive bacterial infections that cause bloodstream infections, sepsis, and meningitis in persons living in the community.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
Data and statistics topics, tools, and related organizations at CDC.
The healthcare-associated infection component of CDC’s Emerging Infections Program (EIP) engages a network of state health departments and their academic medical center partners to help answer critical questions about emerging HAI threats, advanced infection tracking methods, and antibiotic resistance in the United States.
The data tool provides healthcare statistics and information for hospital inpatient and emergency department settings, as well as population-based healthcare data on counties. Generate tables and graphs on national and regional statistics and trends for community hospitals in the United States.
Kinsey Institute Research
Data archive sources primarily related to human sexuality, compiled by the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington.
National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) AtlasPlus. an interactive tool that gives users the ability to create customized tables, maps, and charts using nearly 20 years of CDC’s surveillance data on HIV, viral hepatitis, STD, and TB. AtlasPlus also provides access to indicators on social determinants of health (SDOH) allowing users to view social and economic data in conjunction with surveillance data for each disease.
International data
Maintained by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) maintains this database of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other health-related data. It’s the place to start your health data search.
Maintained by the World Bank, this data contains key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) maintain this data service for the global user community. There is a "nutrition and health" catagory.
WHO's World Health Data Hub is a comprehensive digital platform for global health data. It provides end-to-end solutions to collect, store, analyze, and share data that is timely, reliable, and actionable.
WHO International Classification of Diseases
ICD purpose and uses, as a classification and terminology ICD-11: allows the systematic recording, analysis, interpretation and comparison of mortality and morbidity data collected in different countries or regions and at different times; ensures semantic interoperability and reusability of recorded data for the different use cases beyond mere health statistics, including decision support, resource allocation, reimbursement, guidelines and more.