Looking for data on disease prevalence, health risk behaviors, or leading causes of
death in women? Statistical resources on the NWHIC web site include general resources on
women's health issues and statistics, including women's health statistics by category and
women with disabilities statistical information. Also included are statistical resources
on leading causes of death for American women by racial/ethnic group; women's reproductive
health; cancer; cardiovascular health; diabetes; HIV/AIDS; violence against women;
minority women's health; and world health statistics.
Publications
Women's Health Statistics by Category
Employment status of the civilian
population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin
General U.S. Population Statistics
Health, United States
Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and
Mortality
Statistical Abstract of
the United States
United States Health Facts
Women's Health
Women's Health Issues:
An Overview
Web sites
CDC Wonder
For the Media: Women's Health Statistical
Information
Women with DisAbilities: Statistical
Information
Access to Disability Data
Organizations
National Center for Health Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Library of Medicine
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Kaiser Family
Foundation's State Health Facts Online
National Association for Public
Health Statistics and Information Systems
World Health
Organization
World Health Organization
Statistical Information System
(back to the top)
Publications
Cancer as a Leading Cause of
Death, by Age, Sex, and Race
Cancer Death Rates by State
Cancer Facts:
Breast Cancer
Cancer: Rates and Risks, 4th Edition
United States Cancer
Statistics: 1999 Incidence
Cancer
Facts and Figures 2001
Cancer
in Minorities
Cancer
Statistics for African Americans
Statistics
2004 (Cancer)
Summit Meeting on
Breast Cancer Among African American Women
Organizations
Cancer Statistics Branch, Surveillance Research Program,
DCCPS, NCI
National Cancer Institute
American
Cancer Society
(back to the top)
Publications
About Cardiovascular Disease
Heart Disease
NHLBI Morbidity and Mortality
Chartbook, 2000
Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke:
Addressing the Nations Leading Killers
Women
and Cardiovascular Disease
Web sites
Cardiovascular Health
2002
Heart and Stroke Statistical Update
Statistics on Heart
Disease and Stroke
Organizations
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH,
HHS
American Heart Association
(back to the top)
Publications
1999 Diabetes Surveillance Report
Diabetes
Diabetes
Statistics
Women
and Diabetes
Organizations
Diabetes Public Health Resource, NCCDPHP, CDC
National
Diabetes Education Program, NIDDK, NIH
National Diabetes Information
Clearinghouse, NIDDK, NIH
American Diabetes
Association
(back to the top)
Publications
Health In the
Americas
Web sites
NLM's Databases and Electronic
Information Sources
HNP Stats
Organizations
Global Health Statistics
World Health Statistics
Global Statistics
World Health Organization
Statistical Information System
(back to the top)
Publications
Basic Statistics
HIV/AIDS Statistics
World HIV and AIDS
Statistics
Web sites
Leadership Campaign on AIDS
Statistics
Organizations
CDC National AIDS Hotline, ASHA, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS
HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service, OPHS, HHS
Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, OPHS, OS, HHS
CDC National Prevention Information Network
(back to the top)
Publications
Communicable Disease Suveillance and
Response
Guidelines
for Good Epidemiology Practices
Weekly Epidemiological Record
Web sites
Epi Info
Organizations
Division of Epidemiology, Statistics
and Prevention Research (DESPR)
American College of
Epidemiology
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data
Resource
UCSF
Department of Epidemiology
(back to the top)
Publications
Leading Causes of Death for American
Women by Racial/Ethnic Group
Maternal Mortality among Black and
White Women by State: United States, 1987-1996
Minority Health
Women of Color Health Data Book-2nd
Edition 2002 (English)
African-Americans
and Cancer (Copyright © ICCC)
American
Indians/Alaskan Natives and Cancer (Copyright © ICCC)
Asian
Americans and Cancer (Copyright © ICCC)
Cancer
Facts and Figures for African Americans 2000-2001
Cancer
Facts and Figures for Hispanics 2000-2001
Hispanics/Latinos
and Cancer (Copyright © ICCC)
Native
Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and Cancer (Copyright © ICCC)
Organizations
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities,
NIH, HHS
(back to the top)
Publications
Leading Causes of Death Reports
Leading Causes of Death, by Sex,
Race, and Age
Maternal Mortality among Black and
White Women by State: United States, 1987-1996
Life
Expectancy: United States of America
Numbers
of deaths and death rates: United States of America 1997
Organizations
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control
World Health Organization
Statistical Information System
(back to the top)
Web sites
Fastats
National Cancer
Data Base
Organizations
Bureau of Labor Statistics
CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
CDC Wonder
CHID
Online: The Combined Health Information Database
CIA World Factbook
DisabilityDirect.gov
FedStats
Medline Plus
National
Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institute of Justice
(back to the top)
Publications
Intimate Partner Violence: Fact Sheet
DOJ Research and Statistical
Publications
Extent, Nature, and Consequences of
Intimate Partner Violence
Female Victims of Violent
Crimes
Intimate Partner Violence
Abuse
National Domestic
Violence Statistics
Violence
Against Women in the United States
Organizations
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Division of Violence Prevention
National
Center for Victims of Crime
Violence Against Women Office
(back to the top)
Publications
Achievements in Public
Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies
Condom Use at First
Intercourse
Contraceptive Use Among
Women Ages 15-44, 1995
Fastats - Reproductive Health
Fertility of American Women
Maternal Mortality among Black and
White Women by State: United States, 1987-1996
Percent of Mothers Receiving
Prenatal Care by Race, Hispanic Origin of Mother, and State, 1998
Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy After Tubal
Sterilization
Achievements in Public
Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies
Highlights of Trends in
Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates. Vol. 47, No. 29. 12. pp. (PHS) 2000-1120
Women: Womens Reproductive Health
Organizations
Division of Reproductive Health, NCCDPHP,
CDC
National Center of Child Health and Human Development
Office of Population Affairs
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
(back to the top)
|