Research Guides: Health Communication: Maps & Data

Major Econ Databases

Major Economics Databases
A list of various economic databases for data and literature content.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Visualize and map thousands of socioeconomic variables covering the United States (local to national). Create reports on specific Census geographies. Download reports, data, and maps. Coverage: 2000-present.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Map various demographic and socioeconomic variables from United States Census, Statistics Canada, UK Data Centre, and Eurostat. Download maps/data. Coverage: 1790-present.
Users must create and log into your personal account on Social Explorer.

GapMinder
It uses its videos and data visualization tools to help people better understand statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

HealthData.gov
It makes high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers.
CDC WONDER
Produced by the Center on Disease Control & Prevention provides a system to analyze many public health datasets.
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Data Navigator
Use this tool to find data and information products for specific CMS programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, or on specific health care topics or settings-of-care. Navigator displays search results by data type making it easier to locate specific types of information (e.g., data files, publications, statistical reports, etc.).
National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
A rich source of information about America's health that compile statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Provides a range of data resources on topics such as the use of health care, the costs of care, trends in hospital care, health insurance coverage, out-of-pocket spending, and patient satisfaction.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (CDC)
BRFSS from the CDC is a system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.

Project TYCHO: Data for Health
This University of Pittsburgh project aims to advance the use of public health data for the improvement of public health. It provides access to raw data.
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
This Dartmouth project documents glaring variations in how medical resources are distributed and used in the US.
Law Atlas (Temple University)
Mapping of laws by jurisdiction on various health related issues. Legal mapping can help policy-makers, advocates and researchers understand what the laws are on a given topic, know how the laws differ over time and across jurisdictions, and provides data so they may evaluate their impact.

ICPSR (datasets) This link opens in a new window
The Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR) maintains a dataset archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Each study's dataset provides documentation (e.g. codebook), and a bibliography of published articles that used the data. Data offered in many formats.
Must create an ICPSR account to download data. Coverage: 1700s-present.

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet.
Kaiser: State Health Statistics
Kaiser is a non-profit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy.
Health and Retirement Study (UMich)
HRS is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration.