Originally designed for HNF 472, this guide contains references for state, national, international, and disease-specific statistics, as well as health promotion websites and dietary supplement information.
A useful site for obtaining demographic, economic, and social statistics on a national, state, or county level. Many of these statistics will be useful in grant writing.
Contains many pertinent links for community nutrition topics. Particularly useful resources include the A-Z index, Healthy Living section, Data & Statistics link, and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
Provides a health snapshot for nearly every county in all 50 states. Learn how your county ranks in 29 factors that influence health, including access to healthy foods, physical activity and more.
A resource from the Economic Research Service of the USDA, this provides county-level statistics on food choices, health and well-being, and community characteristics.
Part of the CDC, this is the U.S. Government's principal vital and health statistics agency. The most useful parts of this site are the A-Z index and the FastStats: Statistics by Topic, which give quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance. There is also a FastStats mobile app available.
Formerly published by the Bureau of the Census, this is the basic annual compendium of federal statistics. Of special interest is the Health and Nutrition section, particularly the Food Consumption and the Health Risk Factors sub-sections.
The Social Indicators web page is a gateway for international statistics concerning population, education, health, literacy, and income/economic activity. The advantage to using this site is that many countries can be compared side by side.
Provides selected world health statistics by country, such as infant mortality rate, percent of population immunized, nutrition data, and adult literacy rate.
A great site for obtaining information about a specific country. Statistics useful for this class will be found under the People and Economy categories after selecting the country of interest.
Below the data tables for each country, there is a Health Situation Analysis and Trends Summary, a listing of Specific Health Problems, and a Response of the Health System to the country’s enumerated health problems.
The WHO Nutrition Programmes and Projects page details numerous nutrition activities managed by WHO. They also maintain several global databases, including ones on body mass index, child growth and malnutrition, and the Vitamin & Mineral Nutrition Information System.
Many helpful health statistics for the state and county level are available here, including the annual Vital Statistics report, County Health Profiles, a Health Status Atlas, and the Bureau for Employment Programs (BEP) County Profiles.
This is a joint publication of the CDC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), in collaboration with the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.
