NURS: Resources for MSN Students

Access to hundreds of statistical data files and links to statistics on diseases, health care, populations, and a variety of national health surveys.

The data hub for the Dept. of Health and Human Services Community Health Data Initiative and open government initiative to release data; encourage innovative application development; and catalyze change to improve community health

State by state data and comparisons

Reports, general information, and data related to caring for pets and the benefits of having pets

Data on public health, including Aids, cancer, birth and cause of death statistics, etc.

WISQARSTM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data.

Reports on 41 key indicators of childrens' well-being: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

State Health Facts

Rhode Island KIDS COUNT collects and disseminates data on the well being of Rhode Island's children and advocates for and facilitates the development of responsive policies and programs.

The DataHUB brings together data sets from multiple federal, state and local sources. The site allows you to select the data of your choice and visualize it in charts, graphs, maps and more. The ability to see relationships between data sets sheds light on important details and allows for new insights into policy or programmatic questions about the well-being of Rhode Islanders.
Policymakers, program planners and grants writers can use the DataHUB to demonstrate where to target scarce public resources and explain the data-driven rationale behind policy decisions.