Health Sciences

Portal to Our Health - Health Topics A-Z; Community Health Profiles available through Data - Publications- comprehensive reports that detail the health of all New York City neighborhoods.

EpiQuery is an online interactive portal that provides data on the health of New Yorkers from a variety of sources, including surveys, surveillance data (disease reporting) and vital records (births and deaths).

A useful tool for performing community assessments. Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and much more featuring data from New York City and New York State. The 2010 Census data by zip code is now available. COVID-19 Data by Zip Code now available.

Portal to information on Diseases and Conditions, Statistics and Data and other topics concerning New Yorker's health.

New York State has a large, multi-faceted mental health system that serves more than 700,000 individuals each year. The Office of Mental Health (OMH) operates psychiatric centers across the State, and also regulates, certifies and oversees more than 4,500 programs, which are operated by local governments and nonprofit agencies. These programs include various inpatient and outpatient programs, emergency, community support, residential and family care programs

The world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.

CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System's tool to compare prevalence of variables across states or years.

Dept. of Health and Human Services’ public health agency. Provides data, statistics and information on various health and safety topics.

Federal agency that administers Medicare, Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Look at “Research, Statistics, Data & Systems” section.

The Health, United States program provides national trends in health statistics

Healthy People is a set of goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the Nation’s health.

Topics: Disparities Policy; Global Health Policy; Health Costs; Health Reform; Medicaid; Medicare; Private Insurance; Uninsured; Women's Health Policy.
Facts - State Health Facts.

An electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

Established in 1937, NCI is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research and training.

NCHS provides a number of resources for quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance.

NIMH is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

Mortality Database: Causes of death by age and sex
Global Health Estimates: Assessment of mortality and loss of health due to diseases, injuries and risk factors
Global Health Observatory: Portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation