Resources

Topic: Health Indicators Warehouse http://www.healthindicators.gov/

Review:
The Health Indicators Warehouse contains statistics for over 1,200 different health indicators in various topics such as chronic disease and conditions, health behaviors, and injury and violence. Each indicator contains an over, data, and the option to download.

The site is easy to navigate. You simply need to click on the category of indicator you would like to look for. There is also a glossary of terms, user's guide and an excellent FAQs page.

Recommended Use for Public Health Messaging:
This is helpful information for many different types of health messaging when you want to share data. For example, if you wanted to highlight the disparity in maternal mortality between white and black women, you can find the maternal death indicator. This particular indicator has data from 2007, so it may not be new enough depending on what you are using it for, but the difference is 10 deaths per 100,000 for white women and 26.5 per 100,000 for black women.

This site is excellent for finding data on various health indicators in the U.S.

Other Resources of this type:
WHO Data and Statistics page http://www.who.int/research/en/
National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/