SJSU Research Guides: Nutrition and Food Science: Statistics/Gov't Information

Agencies and Statistic Information

Helpful government websites for researching minority health, health disparities, and health-related statistics. See also Government Information Libguide

National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The mission of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
National Center for Health Statistics
This website contains searchable statistics from the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
National Center for Health Statistics Faststats
The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
FedStats
This a gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies, including those related to health, demographics, and the environment.

Current Health Issues

Santa Clara County Health Profile, 2010 - statistics on chronic illnesses; mortality; socio-economic issues.

Health care: the bill, the debates, etc. (March 23, 2010)

H.R. 3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 Includes all Congressional discussions, bill history for President Obama's health care legislation.

Reality Check - Health Insurance Reform -- from the White House -- this site reviews criticism of the health care reform.

Health Reform - reports, forums, statistics are given regarding the health care reform proposed by the Obama administration.

Flu.gov - comprehensive site that has reports; maps showing flu outbreaks; ask for flu information, faqs, etc

National HIV/AIDS Strategy - reports, references, and strategic plan developed at the White House to combat the HIV/AIDS disease.

Community Nutrition Mapping Project - is an application that combines and aggregates food and nutrition indicators at the state and national level. CNMap is divided into five major categories: nutrient intakes, healthy eating patterns, physical activity and body weight indicators, food security indicators, and demographics.

Food Environment Atlas - USDA - Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is beginning to document the complexity of these interactions, but more is needed to identify causal relationships and effective policy interventions.