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Chicago-wide health trend information and data from sources including the City of Chicago and local hospitals.

Data from Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)

Information, statistics, and maps in such areas as health, planning, TIFs, housing, and city-owned buildings.

Find health statistics and data for over 900 cities across the United States.

Includes datasets, maps, and reports with options to create an account and create visualizations.

Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) provides comprehensive population, health behavior, disease and injury data for residents of suburban Cook County. Some data is available by geographic areas.

Program of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that provides data, evidence, guidance, and examples of the multiple factors that influence health.

More than 800 up-to-date health indicators at the state level can be mapped, ranked, and downloaded.

Links to data sets and statistics from Illinois health-related surveillance, monitoring and reporting systems, the Illinois Morbidity and Mortality Bulletin, disease incidences and more.

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) has funded the administration of the Illinois Youth Survey (IYS) biennially since 1990. The IYS is a self-report survey administered in school settings and is designed to gather information about a variety of health and social indicators including substance use and perceptions, bullying, school climate, nutrition, and physical activity.

Links to facts, figures, news, and programs relating to the health of residents in the State of Illinois.

Search data by geographical area and topic.

Find statistics on a wide variety of health topics for the U.S. population and economy, including disability, fertility, health care access and insurance, health care expenses, investments, economics, HIV/AIDS.

Healthy People 2030 uses dozens of data sources to set national targets and track progress toward achieving objectives.

Consumer Health Advice and Health Provider Information Resource produced by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HSS).

Find reports, guides, case studies, educational tools, resources and useful website links to help research health care issues relating to efficiency; infections; safety; disparities and equity; information technology; medication management; payment; service delivery & coordination; workforce and culture (HRET is affiliated with the American Hospital Association).

SAMHSA collects data through multiple sources and surveys and provides access to public-use data files and documentation to support a better understanding of mental illness and substance use disorders in America.

Reports and statistical analysis relating to health care spending and budgets, including visualizations of budgetary and policy influences on health promotion, disease prevention, emergency preparedness and response.

Find downloadable & interactive national and state-level data from the National Cancer Society. Topics include estimated new cancer cases and deaths by sex, state, and cancer type in the current year; current cancer incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for individual cancer sites; risk factors; screening rates by state.

The Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) is the data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care in the United States. Operated by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan with funding from RWJF, HMCA preserves and disseminates data collected by selected research projects funded by RWJF and facilitates secondary analyses of the data. The data collections in HMCA primarily includes large-scale surveys of the American public about public health, attitudes towards health reform, and access to medical care; surveys of health care professionals and organizations, public health professionals, and nurses; evaluations of innovative programs for the delivery of health care, and many other topics and populations of interest.

Launched in 2019, the Child and Family Data Archive (CFData) preserves and disseminates data on topics related to young children, their families and communities, and the programs that serve them.

Welcome to your gateway to all public health data. These databases and platforms provide access to understandable and timely data, transforming lives by making health and inequality data findable, browsable, and usable.

Quick access to principal health indicators by country, topic, or indicator.

The United Nations Statistics Division collects, compiles and disseminates official national statistics on births, deaths and life expectancy through the Demographic Yearbook data collection system.

UNICEF supports countries in collecting data related to children and women.

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Select a country to view it's profile and statistics.

This category includes data on demographics, health coverage, health status, and certain health conditions by race/ethnicity and gender to provide insight into health disparities and changes in disparities over time. This category also contains data on births and mortality by race/ethnicity.

The Office of Minority Health provides the most current quantitative information related to minority health. This includes sourcing and maintaining a body of expert knowledge on minority health status initiatives, and demographic statistics and analyses on minority populations, compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Census Bureau, private foundations, clinical practitioners, private data sources and public agencies.

The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American Indigenous peoples.

Measures of child well being; analyze data by race/ethnicity & compare data across states.

The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets.

Kaggle has over 465K+ datasets on a variety of different topics.

Figshare is a provider of open research repository infrastructure. It helps researchers share, showcase and manage their research in a discoverable, citable, reportable and transparent way.