Research Guides: Global Health and Environment: Data Sources

Data

BRFSS - CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor
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. Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam
Clinical Trials
ClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants conducted around the world.
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR)
The Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) is the Department of Energy's (DOE) electronic database comprised of health studies of DOE contract workers and environmental studies of areas surrounding DOE facilities.
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DOE recognizes the benefits of data sharing and supports the public's right to know about worker and community health risks. CEDR provides independent researchers and the public with access to de-identified data collected since the Department's early production years. Current CEDR holdings include more than 76 studies of over 1 million workers at 31 DOE sites. Access to these data is at no cost to the user.
Health Indicators Warehouse
Access to high quality data improves understanding of a community’s health status and determinants, and facilitates the prioritization of interventions.
ICPSR
Access to very large computer data files in the social sciences, including election results, polls, surveys, and census information.
Measure DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.
National Center for Health Statistics
Compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of people.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
You may find data from daily weather forecasts, severe storm warnings and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, etc.
Quick Health Data Online
Quick Health Data Online is an interactive system that provides reliable and easily accessible health data to help assess needs, develop programs, and inform policies.
U.S. Census Bureau
This site provides demographic data for countries and regions. It also shows country population pyramids.
USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
The Mission of the Nutrient Data Laboratory is "To develop authoritative food composition databases and state of the art methods to acquire, evaluate, compile and disseminate composition data on foods and dietary supplements available in the United States."

Analysis Tools

DataFerrett
DataFerrett is a unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements. (FERRETT stands for Federated Electronic Research, Review, Extraction, and Tabulation Tool.) Using DataFerrett, you can develop an unlimited array of customized spreadsheets that are as versatile and complex as your usage demands.
Social Explorer
Online demographic mapping application, includes census data from 1790 to the present, and maps and data reports are easy to create and customize.
American Factfinder
Offical home for U.S. Census data. If you are looking for a specific attribute, you can typically find it here, however it will need to be linked to census geography (see above or TIGER).
CDC Wonder (health & vital stats)
Wonder has wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). You can query numeric data sets, and the requested data are readily summarized and analyzed, with dynamically calculated statistics, charts and maps.