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Health Statistics

Local
Health and Safety Executive Work-related injuries and ill-health statistics . (Regional)
Office for National Statistics (Neighbourhood) Detailed statistics within specific geographic areas
Sheffield Director of Public Health Reports & Joint Strategic Needs Assessment Past and present reports
Sheffield Health and Well-being Atlas Interactive tools accessing data at different geographic levels across Sheffield

National
Association of Public Health Observatories Data and intelligence on people's health and health care including District, County and Regional profiles
Cancer Research UK CancerStats for All types of cancer
Child and Maternal Health Observatory Easy access to a wide range of regional information and knowledge relating to the health of children, young people and maternal health.
Decennial Life Tables Graduated life tables which give statistics on national life expectancy for England and Wales
Department of Health Recent / Future Statisitical Publications
Diet Statistics for diet, obesity and physical exercise for England and Wales. It covers trends in consumption of fruit, vegetqbles, fat, protein and carbohydrate, energy intake and trends in food purchasing as well as data for levels of obesity and physical activity
Health and Safety Executive Statistics covering causes and various kinds of diseases thought to be work-related
Health Protection Agency Infectious Diseases / Epidemiological Data
H.M.Government Home of all government datasets
Limbless Statistics A repository for quantitative information on the UK limbless population referred for prosthetics treatment
NCEPOD National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death
NHS: Information Centre for health and social care Covers a very wide range of topics
Office for National Statistics:Mortality statistics Register of death for England and Wales
Office for National Statistics:Health statistics quarterly A sister publication to Population Trends:covers the latest trends in the UK's health
Office for National Statistics:Population trends Covers population and demographic information
Royal College of General Practitioners Statistics on Communicable and Respiratory Diseases updated weekly
UK National Statistics: Health and Social Care Health Care System, Specialist Health Services,Health of the Population, Social Care

International
American cancer Society Number of deaths, how long people survive after diagnosis, behaviours that influence the risk of developing cancer, screening tests
CIA World Factbook General Statistics by Country: Healthy life years at birth, Causes of death, Health care, Health status
European Commission: Eurostat: Public Health Healthy life years at birth, Causes of death, Health care, Health status
European Commission: Atlas on mortality in the European Union Considers the situation regarding mortality across the European Union
Europa European Community Health Inidicators
Medline Plus (US) Public Health - Health Information
MMWR (US) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
National Center for Health Statistics (US) Online source for health information
UNICEF: Childinfo Monitoring the position of Women and children
World Bank Click on: Human Nutrition and Population
World Health Organisation: Atlas of health in Europe Published by WHO, in PDF format
World Health Organisation: European Health for All database "HFA-DB is a central database of independent, comparable and up-to-date basic health statistics" (WHO Europe)
World Health Organisation: European hospital morbidity database "HMDB contains data on hospital discharge by detailed diagnosis, age and sex" (WHO Europe)
World Health Organisation: Global Health Atlas "Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels" (WHO)
World Health Organisation:Regional statistics Statistical information from WHO Regional Offices
World Health Organisation: Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)
World Health Organisation: Global InfoBase Online Data on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO Member States
World Health Organisation: Statistical Information System National statistics for 100 indicators on mortality, morbidity, risk factors, service coverage, and health systems. Includes World Health Statistics Report

Health Statistics Directories
University of Glasgow: Statistics Glossary STatistical Education through Problem Solving