Healthcare Industry Research Guide

Provides statistical information on America's health.

This website from the Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Examine 42 topic areas.

Aims to improve and protect health, while eliminating health disparities.
Minority profiles include: Black/African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.

"Annual step-by-step analysis of the health of the United States." Rankings of the healthiest to least healthy states are listed here.

A collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, the annual rankings measure the following health factors: high school graduations rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy food, aid & water quality, income and teen births in almost every U.S. county.

This nonprofit's mission is to act as a "trusted source of information in a healthcare world dominated by vested interests." Data categories include: Demographics and the Economy, Health Costs & Budgets, Health Coverage & Uninsured, Health Insurance & Managed Care, Health Reform, Health Status, HIV / AIDS, Medicaid & CHIP, Medicare, Minority Health, Providers & Service Use, Women's Health.

Planning and preparedness for the flu from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

While information can vary from state to state, profiles generally include: drug use trends,
substance abuse treatment admissions data, prescription drug abuse, driving on drugs,
support for community-based prevention, drug trafficking, federal grant awards to reduce drug use.

From the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Click on the desired state for links to agencies.

For incidence, prevalence, mortality, screening & risk factors, demographics, cancer knowledge maps and more.

A service of the National Institutes of Health, this database contains a registry of federally and privately supported clinical
trials conducted around the world.

From the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, this site contains information on medical device safety, news, approvals and more.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), a research arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is currently developing a set of statistics ("health care satellite account") aimed at providing greater detail on American spending for medical care. Check post April, 2014 articles in The Survey of Current Business for developments on this multi-year project.