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MD Consult (UMich Only)

Full text of reference books, journal articles, and news for the practicing physician
Includes handouts given to patients
Authentication required on and off campus

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Household survey of civilian population on insurance status, medical use, and expenses as well as other topics
Summary data on the U.S. citizens withouth health insurance or living in nursing homes
HTML or Adobe Acrobat format
More detailed data available for purchase

MEDLINE (UMich Only)

Searchable index to medical periodicals
Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine
Search provides citation and abstract; articles may be ordered on-line
Articles on health statistics can be retrieved by typing the subject term and statistics (e.g. health insurance and statistics)
Alternative is the National Library of Medicine's PubMed

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General

Extensive textual report on the causes and treatment of mental illnesses in children and adults
Projects 20% of public suffers from mental difficulties at some time in their lives
Stigma considered one reason for failure to seek treatment
Statistics interspersed with text

Millennium Indicators (United Nations)

Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually, 1985-2000
Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education, illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and telephone lines
Data accessed by name of country

Monthly Vital Statistics Report

Monthly national and state birth, death, marriage, and divorce figures
Mortality statistics categorized by age/race/sex or disease on a national level
Monthly data begins with July 1994 issue
Provisional annual birth and death data as well as special issues on health topics
Available only in Adobe Acrobat format
Renamed National Vital Statistics Report beginning with v. 47, 1998

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (CDC)

National Cancer Institute Factbook

Incidence, survival rates, and deaths from various types of cancer for men and women
Cancer compared to other causes of death
Historical funding of cancer programs

National Center for Health Statistics

News releases on natality, marriage, divorce, mortality, and selected subjects
FastStats is alphabetical list by subject and state/territory of brief descriptive data (e.g. teen births)
Data Warehouse has extensive links to published and unpublished tables on mortality, natality, and behavioral risk factors

National Center on Sleep Disorders Research