Health
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Places: Local Data for Better HealthPLACES is a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation. PLACES provides health data for small areas across the country. This allows local health departments and jurisdictions, regardless of population size and rurality, to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health measures in their areas and assist them in planning public health interventions. PLACES provides model-based, population-level analysis and community estimates of health measures to all counties, places (incorporated and census designated places), census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States.
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500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health (CDC)The 500 Cities project is a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation. The purpose of the 500 Cities Project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States. These small area estimates will allow cities and local health departments to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health-related variables in their jurisdictions, and assist them in planning public health interventions.
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CDC FastStatsprovides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and includes links to sources of more data.
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County Health RankingsThe annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income inequality, and teen births in nearly every county in America.
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San Francisco Health Improvement PartnershipGet a snap shot of the health status and quality of life in San Francisco. Some variables are available at the zip code or neighborhood level.
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California Environmental Health Tracking ProgramProvides data and information on diseases and environmental threats to inform environmental and public health programs, research, and policies.
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CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance SystemData from the world's largest, on-going telephone health survey system.
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DHS Program (Demographic and Health Surveys)Ready-to-use data for over 90 countries from over 300 surveys covering the topics of demographics, health, and nutrition. The DHS Program is a USAID-funded project implemented by ICF International.
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HospitalFinances.orgHospitalFinances.org is a website run by the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ). Their aim is to make nonprofit hospital finances easier to access, search and analyze. This site includes details of Form 990 filings, made by nonprofit hospitals and systems to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. It does not include for-profit or government-owned hospitals.
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California Department of Health Care Access and InformationCalifornia’s Department of Health Care Access and Information’s (HCAI) mission is to expand equitable access to quality, affordable health care for all Californians through resilient facilities, actionable information, and the health workforce each community needs.
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Global Health ObservatoryThe World Health Organization's portal for providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.
