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Canada

• Statistics Canada is an excellent starting point for health-related statistics.
  • Health in Canada portal "your resource for health statistics" which has links to Health statistics: Tables by subject
  • Health Indicators a compilation of over 80 indicators measuring health status, non-medical determinants of health, health system performance and community and health system characteristics.
  • Health Profile, October 2011 edition features health region data from a number of sources including Statistics Canada's health surveys, administrative data, and the census of population.
  • Health Trends presents comparable time-series data for a range of health indicators from a number of sources including the Canadian Community Health Survey, Vital Statistics, and Canadian Cancer Registry.
  • How healthy are Canadians? (the 2001 edition) and 2002-2005 editions. This report is a supplement to the Health reports quarterly journal.  (Note: This report is also good for outdoor recreation information)
• Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians. They produce many reports including:
  • Health Care in Canada (annual report).
  • Health indicators 2012
  • Canada's health care providers 2007
  • Drug expenditure in Canada 1985-2011

• Eastern Ontario Health Unit Eastern Ontario Health Indicators

• Health Canada

  • Health care expenditures (1980-2001)
  • First Nations Comparable Health Indicators

• Human Resources and Social Development Canada

  • Indicators of Well-Being in Canada with data on how many hours we work each week, our education levels compared with the levels in other countries, the affordability of housing, people with disabilities, mortality and much more.  See also the non-governmental research database Canadian Index of Wellbeing (via University of Waterloo) for quality of life statistics.

• Public Health Agency Canada Chronic Disease InfoBase profiles the epidemiology of major non-communicable diseases in Canada including most current cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, by province/territory and by regional health unit. Demographic, mortality, morbidity, risk factor and related health care data are currently available.

Ottawa

• Public Health statistics

United States

• Census Bureau Fact sheet: health insurance coverage 2010 Census Bureau sources of data on health insurance coverage. See also the full report: Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010
• Dept. of Health and Human Services Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey 2008: Health care spending 1998, 2003, and 2008. The expenses analyzed were total health care and its components: health insurance, medical services, prescription drugs, and medical supplies.

International Organizations (useful for comparative statistics)

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  • Health policies statistics

• Pan-American Health Organization

  • Regional Core Health Data Initiative

• World Bank

  • HNPStats – the World Bank’s comprehensive database of Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) statistics

• World Health Organization

  • WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

• Kaiser Family Foundation (non-governmental)

• GlobalHealthFacts a non-governmental project provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses.
• State health facts provides data on more than 700 health topics at the U.S. state level.