Links to Health Databases
Some more health related websites to explore:
Try to have a look at the following:
This is a really useful and interesting website that gives information about the NHS in the UK – several reports are available to download and related statistics could be helpful.
This website, essentially health and safety related, will give you the opportunity to explore a wide range of alternative statistics that fit into a healthcare perspective but perhaps more from an employment perspective.
You will already have had the opportunity to explore some relevant health databases and these will provide you with some rich data to use in becoming familiar with using SPSS. You may also like to have a look at the following:
This is a really useful and interesting website that gives information derived from the Office of National Statistics.
This website provides essentially information about health surveys across the Country. You might like to explore the catalogue section under the search term ‘health’ – masses there!
There are a wealth of health related websites that portray statistics in graphical form – try exploring these:
This is the site of the Health For All database. Have a look at the Injury Chart Book – full of some very interesting information.
Have a look at the Graphical overview of the ‘Global Burden of injuries’ – it is fascinating!
A really useful site to access for a mass of data is BiomedCentral
You have to register for this (but it is free) and then you will see how vast the resource is available to you to access – it includes a huge resource of journal articles relevant to any specific subject area you choose.
Some more useful information to build up your collection of health related web sites that provide data which you can use in your own development of statistical expertise can be found at the following web site:
fun exploring!
The website below is one that has categorised data tools and statistics within categories of health statistics, national public health data sets, state and local public health data sets plus a number of other useful data sets related to health.
Alternatively you might wish to explore the following directory of research datasets which are used in health services research and public health:
You will find the following two web sites of great interest – and doubtless will spend many hours exploring the vast amount of available information they both make available.
The National Centre for health statistics covers a vast amount of American health data – categorised by subject:
The website below is one that has categorised data tools and statistics within categories of health statistics, national public health data sets, state and local public health data sets plus a number of other useful data sets related to health.
Alternatively you might wish to explore the following directory of research datasets whish are used in health services research and public health:
The following website provides some sources of comparable health-related data and provides links to additional related health data sites:
CIHI provides a range of free, aggregate-level data on Health Conditions with more comprehensive data available in published reports.
Free data are presented either as pre-formatted tables which provide a snapshot of the data or interactive data which provides a dynamic presentation of health statistics, in which data can be manipulated, printed and exported.
Access the following website and scroll down the page given and you will find example spreadsheets of data to use in your own analyses – this will give you plenty of examples to use with ready prepared data.
When you access this next website, it will be self evident and self explanatory in terms of what you need to do in order to explore the vast database of information.
Another helpful website which provides a useful run through of a repeated measures design giving a step by step approach using SPSS.
This next website is an interesting one as it enables you to run our own data examples with an almost instant return of the results. Have a go with some of your own data.