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. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.
(KEN) (English, Spanish) is an award-winning government Web site that offers a wealth of information about mental health. Visitors can order free publications online, search KEN's referral database.
American Psychological Association's PsychInfo: PsycINFO Direct is an abstract database covering literature that is relevant to psychology. Individuals can purchase access to over 1.5 million abstracts for a 24-hour period for $9.95
American Psychoanalytic Association: "Search The Psychoanalytic Literature via the Jourlit/Bookrev Databases. On-Line Search Facility for the Jourlit/Bookrev Databases."
Census State Data Centers: "Since 1978, the State Data Center (SDC) Program has provided training and technical assistance in accessing and using Census data for research, administration, planning, and decision making by the government, the business community, university researchers, and other interested data users."
Center for Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN): (KEN) (English, Spanish) is an award-winning government Web site that offers a wealth of information about mental health. Visitors can order free publications online, search KEN's referral database.
CHID Online: The Combined Health Information Database: "CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources."
Child Abuse: Statistics, Research and Resources: Child Abuse: This page, by Jim Hopper, Ph.D., has a discussion and presentations of statistics on child abuse, especially child sexual abuse, and a list of Web resources for survivors of child abuse.
Children In Violent Homes: 79% of violent children have witnessed violence between their parents. (Family Prevention Fund, 1991)
Drug Statistics Master Page - IPRC Info Site: "Master page of links to more than 150 sources of statistics about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, including full-text reports. From the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University."
FedStats Search: "FedStats provides easy access to statistics and information produced by more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies."
HealthPromis: "HealthPromis is the national health promotion database for England. The database contains references and links to a range of sources. These include official publications, surveys, reports, books, research, websites, journal articles and resources (videos, teaching material, software, cassettes and games)."
The Job Accommodation Network: "The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is not a job placement service, but an international toll-free consulting service that provides information about job accommodations and the employability of people with disabilities. JAN also provides information regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)."
Medical Resource Reviews Database: "This database contains summaries and reviews of electronic medical information resources available by any of the following means: browsable WWW sites, or downloadable datasets and software, or on CD-ROMs."
MedWeb: Emory University's MedWeb is a catalog of health related web sites, maintained by the Emory Health Sciences Center Library to provide access to biomedical information to improve education, research and patient care.
National Center for Health Statistics: "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. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data."
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: The mission of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) is to facilitate the secondary analysis of research data relevant to the study of child abuse and neglect. By making data available to a larger number of researchers, NDACAN seeks to provide a relatively inexpensive and scientifically productive means for researchers to explore important issues in the child maltreatment field.
U.S. National Library of Medicine: "The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology. The collections stand at 5 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old (pre-1914) and rare medical texts, manuscripts, and incunabula."