Government Documents: Health

Federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and the leading public health institute in the United States.

Created by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, under the Department of Health and Human Services, this website gives recommendations to the general public for managing and screening various health conditions.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives."

"Nutrition.gov is a USDA-sponsored website that offers credible information to help you make healthful eating choices. It serves as a gateway to reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers."

"HHS has 11 operating divisions, including eight agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies. These divisions administer a wide variety of health and human services and conduct life-saving research for the nation, protecting and serving all Americans."

"The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation."

Website that organizes government information available online. A good way to look up websites for federal agencies related to health and medicine, which may contain reports and statistics.

"The U.S. Surgeon General is the Nation’s Doctor, providing Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk of illness and injury."

"CDC Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) is a public resource. This application makes many health-related data sets available to CDC staff, public health departments, researchers, and others."

"Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans." Contains data and links to reports/studies.

"The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people." Contains data briefs, data sets, and data tools.

Contains information from many federal agencies, including health statistics.

Website from the Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA). Provides data on the amount of exposure industrial workers have to hazardous chemicals.

Contains data sets and blog posts. "The data is collected and supplied from agencies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as state partners."

Centers for Medicare And Medicaid Service publishes yearly a report on Medicare/Medicaid recipients called "CMS Program Statistics". Website also contains a number of reports and a data-finding tool.

An older yearly statistical publication that was replaced by "CMS Program Statistics". Ran from 2001 to 2013

Regularly publishes documents on drug use and addiction, including the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

"PubMed® comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites."

"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

"The NLM Catalog provides access to NLM bibliographic data for journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources and other materials." Some items are available for free electronically.

"Disaster Lit: Database for Disaster Medicine and Public Health is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) database of links to disaster medicine and public health documents available on the Internet at no cost. Documents include expert guidelines, research reports, conference proceedings, training classes, fact sheets, websites, databases, and similar materials for a professional audience."

"PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. ...Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more."

"MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, and a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)." Contains good, reliable information for researchers without a health-science background.