HLTH 398B: Senior Seminar in Health Studies (HC)

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. This is a state-based system of health surveys that collects information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury. For many states, the BRFSS is the only available source of timely, accurate data on health-related behaviors.

This includes lots of overlaps with the NCHS but the interface can provide easier access to a number of topics.

Provides an overview of key health indicators for local communities.

The principal health statistics agency that compiles statistical information to provide a credible, public resource for health information.

Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 700 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation website and Kaiser Health News.

Provides information on the size and distribution of our population.

Part of the Reuters News and Information services, this site focuses on providing the latest in medical news updated on a daily basis. Archives are also available.

Explains diseases in simple English. Multimedia resources (animations, audio, photographs and videos) help illustrate complex subjects. Each topic has links to an audio glossary and multimedia.

From the National Library of Medicine -Comprehensive site with information on drugs and supplements, medical dictionary and encyclopedia and convenient access to both consumer and professional level literature.

German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) fulfills part of its legal mandate to educate the public in matters of health by hosting this website. It regularly scans the medical literature for objective state of the art information and produce consumer-friendly summaries of the scientific reports.

A one-stop information source to learn about disease conditions, patient education and research and patient support organizations for specific conditions. Sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.