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- Resource only available to UT-Austin Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resource available to all members of the UT-Austin community, including Law School students, faculty, and staff.
- Resource available to the general public.
Some databases otherwise restricted to the Law School or the UT-Austin community may be available to patrons who use on-site computers within the Library.
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Findlaw
Choose "For Legal Professionals" option, choose "Practice Areas" and then "Web Guide- Databases" for comprehensive health related statistical resources.
http://lp.findlaw.com/Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
The AGI is a "nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education." Choose "State Center" for research and analysis for all 50 states and the District of Columbia or choose "Statistics" for customizable data tables.
http://www.guttmacher.org/index.html
Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
"Covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works."
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/Introduction.htm
Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD)- Related Databases
Lists databases that may be useful to alcohol and drug researchers. Contains descriptions of each database and its content.
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/Databases.htmCenter for Studying Health System Change
"Non partisan policy research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U. S. health care system to "inform the thinking and decisions of policy makers in government and private industry." Choose CTS data on the left margin to access data files."
http://www.hschange.com/index.cgi?file=aboutChild Trends Data Bank
Child Trends is a "nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children. The data bank provides the latest national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month."http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/
The Cochrane LibraryIncludes information on the effects of interventions in health care. Provides information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care. Consists of a regularly updated collection of
evidence-based medicine databases.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=89Future of Children
"Promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research." Choose "figure and table" index under "Publications" for data.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/index.htm
Kaiser Family FoundationCurrent data on health-related topics and public opinion survey results on health issues.
http://www.kff.org/National Library of Medicine
Health Services Research and Public Health compilation of data sets.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/hsrsites.html#Data%20Sets%20and%20Data%20SourcesPolicyFile
An electronic database indexing research and publication abstracts in the field of public policy research and analysis. Includes public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=285
Research Archive on Disability in the United States (RADIUS)Maintains data sets on the prevalence, incidence, correlates, and consequences of disability in the U.S
http://www.socio.com/data_arc/radius_0.htm
statehealthfacts.orgFree, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states.
http://statehealthfacts.org/U.S. Census Bureau Health Insurance Data
Reports and statistics about medical insurance from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) and other sources, covering various periods from the late 1980s on. Includes a FAQ and related links.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.htmlU.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC)
National Center for Health StatisticsThe Nation's principal health statistics agency produces a variety of statistics on health related topics such as "Life Tables" in the Vital Statistics report (left margin).
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/r&d/rdc.htm
CDC Wonder
Provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric health data.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/
FastStatsNCHS Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance organized alphabetically.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS)
A national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels.
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/shpps/index.htm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Contains a wide variety of health related statistics.
http://www.hhs.gov/reference/index.shtml#statisticsUrban Institute
Provides statistical reports on economic, education, health, housing, welfare and labor topics.
http://www.urban.org/
Globalhealthfacts.org
Data, by country, for "HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators." Features tables, charts, and color-coded maps which "can be downloaded for custom analyses." Data is viewable by country or by topic.
http://globalhealthfacts.org/SourceOECD
The online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Comprises 20 Studies by Themes for monographs and reports; 24 periodicals online; some reference titles online; and the OECD statistical databases online.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=335
UNICEF Childinfo.orgDetailed country specific information.
http://www.childinfo.org/
UNICEF Monitoring and StatisticsEconomic and social data from 195 countries.
http://www.unicef.org/statistics/
World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/research/en/
WHO Statistical Information SystemGuide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the WHO.
http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
WHO Research ToolsLinks to library databases and statistical guides.
http://www.who.int/research/en/
University of Michigan Library Documents Center
Compilation of health statistics on the web.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/sthealth.html
University of Texas Libraries- Medicine and Health (includes regional information)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/links/links_medicine.html
Last updated on March 19, 2008.