Public Health: Data, Statistics, and Grey Literature

Below you will find links to a variety of sources for data and statistical information on the city, state, and country level, as well as international resources. There are also some sources for grey literature- research that is unpublished or published through non-commercial channels.

Grey Literature refers to research produced by organizations outside of traditional commercial publishing channels.  This is material created outside of the traditional scholarly communications infrastructure (journals and commercial publishers) which can include dissertations, conference papers, white papers, reports, data -- all things that you won't find on databases like PubMed.

• NYC Vital Statistics 
• NYS Department of Health 

  Data & reports form the NYC DOH
• EpiQuery: NYC Interactive Health Data 

  EpiQuery provides data on the health of New Yorkers from a variety of sources, including surveys, surveillance data, and vital records.
• NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 

  More data resources from the NYC DOH.
• NYC Community Health Profiles 
• NYC Health Data 
• InfoShare 

  Population statistics, immigration trends, socio-economic indicators, birth and death data, hospitalizations, local trade data, and more.

• World Health Organization 

  Includes data from the Global Health Observatory (GHO), Global Health Estimates (GHE), and the WHO Mortality Database.
• UN Data 

  Country/regional profiles and a variety of databases based on UN-collected- information.
• Global Health Data Exchange 

  Comprehensive catalog of surveys, censuses, vital statistics, and other global health-related data.
• The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) 

  IHME is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington
• Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) 

  The DHS Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.