Finding Statistics for Health Issues: Home

Will help you find general information on a social problem

To look up definition, symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis of a disease

An Encyclopedia of diseases and sicknesses, arranged alphabetically, from the National Library of Medicine

Data collected by the United Nations

To find general statistics or information about a country

Statistics on the state of New York from the state's Department of Health

General Data collected by Baruch College/CUNY

This page, from the NYC Dept. of Health includes a box to place the zip code of the neighborhood you are interested in and to receive a report on its health

Various reports on each community (defined here as the district the neighborhoods fall into), from the NYC Dept. of Planning

Find statistics on diseases in America from the Federal Government

"The National Health Care Surveys are designed to answer key questions of interest to health care policy makers, public health professionals, and researchers. These can include the factors that influence the use of health care resources, the quality of health care, including safety, and disparities in health care services provided to population subgroups in the United States." -- From the home page of the National Health Care Surveys

Charts of Statistics about the United States and its economy and population from Colonial times to 2012

A program that lets you explore the United States based upon census figures