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Nursing - Public Health

U.S. & INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS

United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - THE place to find US public health stats
Consumer Products: Injuries and Stats
Healthy People 2030 - look for Topics and Objectives
Youth Risk Behavior Survey - for all sorts of info on teenagers
and...journal articles, from searches usually in MEDLINE.

International 
World Health Organization - a great deal of international statistics. 
UNICEF,  UN 
and...journal articles, from searches usually in MEDLINE.

Worksheet Questions

Infant Mortality
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) - state and national

March of Dimes - search by state, county, national; provides info by race/ethnicity
Massachusetts Death Data (under Vital Stats) - state data

Death Rates
Massachusetts Death Data (under Vital Stats) - state and community data

CDC FastStats - Deaths and Mortality 

Incidence and Prevalence Rates

HIV/AIDS - state data
HIV/AIDS - National data
Measles - state and national data
Tuberculosis - state and community data
Tuberculosis - national data
Syphilis - state and community data
Syphilis - national data
Diabetes - state and community data
Diabetes - national data


COVID-19
CDC COVID Data Tracker - national data
Massachusetts COVID-19 Response Reporting - state and community data
COVID-19 Vaccination - locations of MA vaccination sites.
Salem State COVID Tracker
Note: check individual city/town web sites for mask mandate or vaccine passport requirements.