Research Guides: Health Statistics: Federal Agencies

Organizations & Agencies

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): Research tool and data.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): The site collects behavioral health risk data at the state and local level.
FASTSTATS: From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically.
FASTATS: Therapeutic Drug Use: U.S. data on prescription drug use, and drugs ordered during physician office visits, and hospital outpatient and emergency department visits.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Provides data on health professionals, rural health and medical underserved and shortage areas.
National Center for Health Statistics: The principal health statistics agency of the United States.

Mortality Data: From the National Vital Statistics System, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It provides demographic, geographic, and cause-of-death information
National Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR): This publication covers provisional Birth Data, Fetal Deaths, Marriages and Divorces statistics. NVSR replaced the Monthly Vital Statistics Report (MVSR)
Vital and Health Statistics Series (National Center for Health Statistics): Home page for NCHS statistical report series, once called the Rainbow Series.