Course Guide: NURS 405

Wikipedia: is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It's a great place to start and get background information on your town, county, state, etc.

Google Site Search - site:.

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QuickFacts: QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Might not be around much longer, as they are trying to move to one census interface.

County Health Rankings and Roadmaps - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. County level data on a wide variety of health related issues.

Data.Census.Gov is the  latest search engine from the United States Census Bureau and is replacing American Fact Finder. American Fact Finder was decommissioned and is no longer available as of March 31, 2020.  The data available in data.census.gov has information after the year 2000. If you are wanting information before 2000 you will need to consult historical data found in the Census Bureau's Historical Publications site. 

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 Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment - Portal to all kinds of health statistics for Colorado and Colorado counties. 

• COHID - Colorado Health Information Dataset. Searchable database of birth and death data, behavioral risk factor data, pregnancy risk assessment data, cancer incidence data and more.
• Colorado Health and Environmental Indicators - county level data about a variety of health indicators
• CDPHE Open Data Portal - selected GIS data sets, boundary files and visualization tools

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National Center for Health Statistics  - From the NCHS Home page, try "Topics", "Surveys and Data Collection Systems" or "Publications".

Centers for Disease Control - From the CDC Home page, select "Diseases and Conditions" and choose More for an A-Z listing.

FastStats - health data by topic.

• Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System - Data from a national survey that asks about personal behaviors that constitute health risks, for example smoking, drug use, sexual behavior, etc.
• National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System - Detailed demographic and geographic data on serious diseases.  
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System  - Same as above except targeted toward teenagers.   

Simplyanalytics – Mapping data from the American Community Survey, the Economic Censuses and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Social Explorer - Demographic and household economic data from the American Community Surveys and Decennial Censuses. 

Statista - Statista is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets. Data can be downloaded and exported for academic use.

UpToDate - UpToDate is an evidence-based knowledge system authored by physicians to help clinicians make the right decisions at the point of care. All UpToDate content is written and edited by a global community of 5,100 physicians, world-renowned experts in their specialties.