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Women's Health Statistics

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.

General Resources

Publications

American Flag Icon Women's Health Statistics by Category

American Flag Icon Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, age, and Hispanic origin

American Flag Icon General U.S. Population Statistics

American Flag Icon Health, United States

American Flag Icon Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality

American Flag Icon Statistical Abstract of the United States

American Flag Icon United States Health Facts

American Flag Icon Women's Health

American Flag Icon Women's Health Issues: An Overview

Web sites

American Flag Icon CDC Wonder

American Flag Icon For the Media: Women's Health Statistical Information

American Flag Icon Women with DisAbilities: Statistical Information

American Flag Icon Access to Disability Data

Organizations

American Flag Icon National Center for Health Statistics

American Flag Icon Bureau of Justice Statistics

American Flag Icon Bureau of Labor Statistics

American Flag Icon National Library of Medicine

American Flag Icon The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

American Flag Icon 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

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Cancer

Publications

American Flag Icon Cancer as a Leading Cause of Death, by Age, Sex, and Race

American Flag Icon Cancer Death Rates by State

American Flag Icon Cancer Facts: Breast Cancer

American Flag Icon Cancer: Rates and Risks, 4th Edition

American Flag Icon 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

American Flag Icon Cancer Statistics Branch, Surveillance Research Program, DCCPS, NCI

American Flag Icon National Cancer Institute

American Cancer Society

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Cardiovascular Health

Publications

American Flag Icon About Cardiovascular Disease

American Flag Icon Heart Disease

American Flag Icon NHLBI Morbidity and Mortality Chartbook, 2000

American Flag Icon Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke: Addressing the Nation’s Leading Killers

Women and Cardiovascular Disease

Web sites

American Flag Icon Cardiovascular Health

2002 Heart and Stroke Statistical Update

Statistics on Heart Disease and Stroke

Organizations

American Flag Icon National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, HHS

American Heart Association

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Diabetes

Publications

American Flag Icon 1999 Diabetes Surveillance Report

American Flag Icon Diabetes

American Flag Icon Diabetes Statistics

Women and Diabetes

Organizations

American Flag Icon Diabetes Public Health Resource, NCCDPHP, CDC

American Flag Icon National Diabetes Education Program, NIDDK, NIH

American Flag Icon National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, NIDDK, NIH

American Diabetes Association

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HHS Country Information Database and World Health Statistics

Publications

Health In the Americas

Web sites

American Flag Icon NLM's Databases and Electronic Information Sources

HNP Stats

Organizations

American Flag Icon Global Health Statistics

American Flag Icon World Health Statistics

Global Statistics

World Health Organization Statistical Information System

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Publications

American Flag Icon Basic Statistics

American Flag Icon HIV/AIDS Statistics

World HIV and AIDS Statistics

Web sites

American Flag Icon Leadership Campaign on AIDS Statistics

Organizations

American Flag Icon CDC National AIDS Hotline, ASHA, NCHSTP, CDC, HHS

American Flag Icon HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service, OPHS, HHS

American Flag Icon Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, OPHS, OS, HHS

American Flag Icon CDC National Prevention Information Network

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Mesuring Health (Epidemiology)

Publications

Communicable Disease Suveillance and Response

Guidelines for Good Epidemiology Practices

Weekly Epidemiological Record

Web sites

American Flag Icon Epi Info

Organizations

American Flag Icon Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research (DESPR)

American College of Epidemiology

Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource

UCSF Department of Epidemiology

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Minority Women's Health

Publications

American Flag Icon Leading Causes of Death for American Women by Racial/Ethnic Group

American Flag Icon Maternal Mortality among Black and White Women by State: United States, 1987-1996

American Flag Icon Minority Health

American Flag Icon 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

American Flag Icon National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH, HHS

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Morbidity and Mortality Data

Publications

American Flag Icon Leading Causes of Death Reports

American Flag Icon Leading Causes of Death, by Sex, Race, and Age

American Flag Icon 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

American Flag Icon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

American Flag Icon Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

American Flag Icon National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

World Health Organization Statistical Information System

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Statistical Databases and Resources

Web sites

American Flag Icon Fastats

National Cancer Data Base

Organizations

American Flag Icon Bureau of Labor Statistics

American Flag Icon CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

American Flag Icon CDC Wonder

American Flag Icon CHID Online: The Combined Health Information Database

American Flag Icon CIA World Factbook

American Flag Icon DisabilityDirect.gov

American Flag Icon FedStats

American Flag Icon Medline Plus

American Flag Icon National Center for Education Statistics

American Flag Icon National Center for Health Statistics

American Flag Icon National Institute of Justice

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Violence Against Women

Publications

American Flag Icon Intimate Partner Violence: Fact Sheet

American Flag Icon DOJ Research and Statistical Publications

American Flag Icon Extent, Nature, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence

American Flag Icon Female Victims of Violent Crimes

American Flag Icon Intimate Partner Violence

Abuse

National Domestic Violence Statistics

Violence Against Women in the United States

Organizations

American Flag Icon Bureau of Justice Statistics

American Flag Icon Division of Violence Prevention

American Flag Icon National Center for Victims of Crime

American Flag Icon Violence Against Women Office

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Women's Reproductive Health

Publications

American Flag Icon Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies

American Flag Icon Condom Use at First Intercourse

American Flag Icon Contraceptive Use Among Women Ages 15-44, 1995

American Flag Icon Fastats - Reproductive Health

American Flag Icon Fertility of American Women

American Flag Icon Maternal Mortality among Black and White Women by State: United States, 1987-1996

American Flag Icon Percent of Mothers Receiving Prenatal Care by Race, Hispanic Origin of Mother, and State, 1998

American Flag Icon Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy After Tubal Sterilization

American Flag Icon Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies

American Flag Icon Highlights of Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates. Vol. 47, No. 29. 12. pp. (PHS) 2000-1120

American Flag Icon Women: Women’s Reproductive Health

Organizations

American Flag Icon Division of Reproductive Health, NCCDPHP, CDC

American Flag Icon National Center of Child Health and Human Development

American Flag Icon Office of Population Affairs

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Last Updated: February 2004


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