Government run, public health organizations with a mandate to track disease epidemiology in the interest of community health. These organizations administer large scale, resource-intensive studies that measure health outcomes over time.
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.
FastStats provides quick access to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Topics include diseases and conditions, injuries, life stages and populations, health care and insurance, births, and deaths.
Health data for individual countries, regions and global coverage presented in a variety of downloadable formats. Resources include country profiles, a map gallery, references to other relevant publications and data sources.
Journalists that visualize and interpret data (often from other sources) to inform the public about newsworthy health issues. This can be a good way to find out about data to explore further, or get familiar with a topic you may be interested in researching.
A convenient platform for finding state-based demographic data relating to minority populations, medical school graduates, and women's and men's health disparities.