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Statistics for Medicine and Health

United Kingdom

Mortality statistics

Statistics on deaths and their causes, produced by the Department of Health are divided into:

UK Health Statistics

UK Health Statistics - brings together information on health care systems and health outcomes on a comparable basis for the United Kingdom as a whole and for its constituent elements

Statistical Work Areas

Statistical Work Areas Statistics - concerned with health care and workforce issues - how many hospitals, pharmacists, etc.

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)

HES - provide information on admitted patient care delivered by NHS hospitals in England from 1989.

Health Survey for England

The Health survey for England (HSE) comprises of a series of annual surveys beginning in 1991. The series is part of an overall programme of surveys commissioned the DH and designed to provide regular information on various aspects of the nation's health. All surveys have covered the adult population aged 16 and over living in private households in England. Children were included in every year since 1995

Statbase

Statbase is the Office of National Statistics database of datasets. For Health statistics:

  1. Select the Health and Care theme and select 'show linked subjects'. A box of health related subjects will appear below the statistics themes box.
  2. Select the subject you are interested in and select show linked datasets. A box of datasets on your chosen subject will appear below the subject box.
  3. Select the dataset you which to consult. You will be directed to Web page containing statistics.

Transplant Statistics

UK Transplant Statistics - extracted from the National Transplant Database

Incidence of diseases in the UK

Infectious and communicable disease 

Public Health Laboratory Service - includes AIDS and BSE

Autism

Cancer 

Coronary heart disease 

Stroke

Asthma

International

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

Global Health Observatory - Unbeatable guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information for every country available from the World Health Organization

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

Weekly Epidemiological Record - Infectious and communicable disease data report, published by the World Health Organization

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics

OECD Health statistics - Comparative statistics on health and health care

United States

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC data and statistics - US federal agency for disease prevention and control, environmental health and health promotion.

MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports) - data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries.

Understanding statistics

Statistics at Square One - Full text of the BMJ's guide to medical statistics

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