Library: NURS 830: Health Policy: Advocacy in Action: Governmental Organizations

State and Local Agencies

Institute of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Library of Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is 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.
Congressional Budget Office: Health Care Spending
The CBO provides nonpartisan analysis of the federal budget for the U.S. Congress, and they include analysis of health care spending.

European Commission Public Health
Kaiser Family Foundation Global Health Facts
World Bank Health Data
USAID Demographic and Health Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 300 surveys in over 90 countries.
Health Map: Global Disease Alert Map
Brings together several data sources on current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. Data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location on global and regional maps.
Data Visualization - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Data freely and easily accessible and to provide innovate ways to visualize complex global topics.
GlobalHealth.gov
Global health data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
OECD.StatExtracts
The "Health" link on the left provides 2001-2010 data on worldwide health expenditures, healthcare activities (e.g., vaccinations), and more, for OECD countries.