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Federal Agencies and Resources

Organizations and Agencies

Agency for International Development (USAID)

USAID "supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives."

Census Bureau

American FactFinder is the Census Bureau's source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data. Data sets from 1990 and 2000 census and 1997 economic census are available and custom tables and maps can be created from the data.

1997 Economic Census: Health Care and Social Assistance, United States

"Statistics include the number of establishments, employment, payroll, and value of sales, receipts, revenue, or shipments for establishments with paid employees." Data can also be refined by state or metropolitan area.

Publications: Population

Includes many statistical and other publications from the Census Bureau. General topics include consumer income and poverty, estimates and projections, household economic studies, population characterisctics, and more.

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Department of Agriculture

Economic Research Service

"ERS' program encompasses research, analyses of food and commodity markets, policy studies, and development of economic and statistical indicators." The site contains data and publications and toolkits on many topics, including diet, consumption, and health; food and nutrition assistance programs; food safety; natural resources, environment, and conservation; food prices; trade; and many more.

Department of Energy. Environment, Safety and Health

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC Organization

This is a directory of the major organizational components of CDC.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

BRFSS is a continuously conducted telephone survey on health-related behaviors. Since 1997 all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico participate in the survey. From the site you can get copies of questionnaires and some prevalence data. Information and results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is also available.

CDC State Profiles (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)

For each state, one may access information such as fact sheets, funding, legislation, reports, state-based programs and projects, statistics, and data.

CDC Wonder

CDC Wonder provides access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and about 40 text-based and numeric databases. Numeric information includes census data, mortality data, and natality data as well as surveillance information.

Data and Statistics

This page provides quick links to much of the CDC's data, including surveillance, various databases, and laboratory information.

National Center for Health Statistics

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Leading Causes Charts

Includes leading causes of death, non-fatal injury, and injury death. From the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Formerly The Health Care Financing Administration - HCFA)

CMS administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance (SCHIP) programs.

CMS Research Publications, Data, and Statistics

CMS Active Projects Report, an annual report detailing research projects that CMS supports.

National Health Information Center

"The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers."

Office of the Secretary

Office of Public Health and Science

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Healthy People 2010

Healthy People 2000

Office of Minority Health

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General

Full-text Surgeon General reports from 1994 to present are available.

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is "the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in the areas of policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation, and economic analysis."

Policy Information Center

PIC is the central source of information on policy research and evaluations conducted or supported by DHHS. Searches may be conducted by subject category; there is also a list of subjects to browse.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)

This annual report provides the policy community with comprehensive data on the well-being of children and youth. More than 80 indicators of well-being are examined in the five broad areas: Population, family, and neighborhood; Economic security; Health conditions and health care; Social development and behavioral health; and Education and achievement. Earlier editions are also available.

Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web

Includes over 70 U.S. federal agencies' statistical web sites, as well as links to statistical agencies for over 60 nations and international organizations.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

National Center for Environmental Economics

"NCEE analyzes relationships between the economy, environmental health, and environmental pollution control. This includes:

• Economic benefits and costs
• Economic incentives
• Size, composition, and effects of the pollution control industry
• Risk assessment data used in economic analyses

NCEE also serves as a central point of contact for communicating and resolving cross-cutting technical economic issues. This site has:

• Publications by NCEE, EPA, and others, including working papers
• Careers & Internships for professionals to work for NCEE and students to obtain internships and fellowships
• Grant announcements of current and future solicitations and a listing of past grant awards
• Events (workshops, seminars, and conferences) sponsored by NCEE and others
• Internet Links to environmental economics Web sites."

National Environmental Publications Information Site (NEPIS)

Over 11,000 U.S. EPA publications are available for searching, viewing, and printing.

Science Inventory

"Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products. The database contains more than 19,000 records in the archives including project descriptions, products produced, types of peer review, links to related work and contacts for additional information. Users can conduct keyword searches or search within nine cross-cutting science topics."

Technology Transfer Network, Unified Air Toxics Website (EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards)

This site provides information on EPA programs and regulations as well as state and local programs. Emission data tables at the county level are available, as is data on the deposition of pollutants on urban waters. Also included are air toxics reduction and assessment tools and strategies.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

General Accounting Office (GAO)

Geological Survey. Environment and Human Health

This web site is devoted to the USGS's role in understanding environmental contributions to human health and disease. It includes many publications and fact sheets, as well as Human Health Related Data Sources, which is a guide to many databases produced by the USGS and others relevant to this topic (including the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, Arsenic in Ground Water of the U.S., Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends, and more).

MedPAC (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)

"MedPAC is an independent federal body established to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. MedPAC is also tasked with analyzing access to care, quality of care, and other issues affecting Medicare. The primary outlet for the Commission’s recommendations consists of two reports, published in March and June of each year. The Commission also publishes additional reports on a variety of subjects." These reports are all online.

National Cancer Institute

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

"The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by understanding each of these elements and how they interrelate."

National Center for Toxicogenomics

National Toxicology Program

"NTP was established by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to coordinate toxicological testing programs within the Department; strengthen the science base in toxicology; develop and validate improved testing methods; and provide information about potentially toxic chemicals to health regulatory and research agencies, the scientific and medical communities, and the public."

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

National Library of Medicine

Surgeons General's Reports on the Web

Full text (PDF) of all Surgeon General's Reports from 1964 to present. This site also includes relevant articles, bibliographies, proceedings, and photographs.