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PUBLIC HEALTH DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE

U.S. Domestic Assistance Databases

GOVERNMENT BENEFITS PROGRAM - U.S. - U.S. Government
GovBenefits.gov
"...is the official benefits website of the U.S. government, with information on over 1,000 benefit and assistance programs..."

CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE (U.S.) - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Department of Health & Human Services "...The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) is a government-wide compendium of all 1,368 Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public..." For more information see Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)

Countries World Wide Domestic Assistance Databases

FOR PUBLIC HEALTH DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE WORLD WIDE SEE INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES

PUBLIC HEALTH IMAGES

Public Health Atlases

PUBLIC HEALTH IMAGE LIBRARY - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services Multimedia Public Health Atlas (Text, Images, Videos/Movies & Audio/Sound).
Public Health Images Library includes:
"...Illustrations, Photographs, Animations, Audio Visuals, etc..."
For more information see the CDC

PUBLIC HEALTH STATISTICS DATABASES

Current World Population

WORLD POPULATION CLOCK PROJECTION - Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, U.S For more information see World Population Information; International Programs Center or the Bureau of Census

WORLD POPULATION - Population Reference Bureau

Public Health Statistical Databases

UNESCO INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Multimedia Satistics Databases (Text & Images). For more information see UNESCO

INFO NATION - United Nations Multimedia Satistics Databases (Text & Images). For more information see Cyberschoolbus or the United Nations (U.N.)

HEALTH IN THE AMERICAS: COUNTRY HEALTH PROFILE - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Multimedia Satistics Databases (Text & Images).
PAHO's
"...country profile database functions as the official regional information source on mortality in the Americas..."

POPLINE SEARCH - Maintained by: Population Information Program, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Funded primarily by: United States Agency for International Development Multimedia Satistics Databases (Text & Images).
"...POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE)
"...provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. The world's largest bibliographic population database, POPLINE brings together almost 250,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field..."
For more information see Center for Communication Programs

WORLD RESOURCES - World Resources Institute, Washington D.C. Multimedia Database & Teaching Modules (Text & Images).

UNITED NATIONS POPULATION INFORMATION NETWORK (POPIN) - UN Population Information Network, United Nations Multimedia Database (Text & Images). For more information see United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Statistical Databases by Country & Some Examples

Statistical Agencies by Country

STATISTICAL AGENCIES BY COUNTRY - Hosted by the Census Bureau, U.S.

Australia

AUSTRALIAN STATISTICS - Australian Bureau of Statistics, Commonwealth of Australia

Canada

CANADIAN STATISTICS/LE CANADA EN STATISTIQUES - Government of Canada For more information see Statistics/Statistique Canada

United States

ANIMATION PROJECTS - E. Stephan, Department of Sociology, Western Washington University Multimedia. For more information see Ed Stephan's Home Page

Examples include

Boundaries of the U.S.: 1650 to Present

Sex Ratio 1790 to 1990 (U.S.)

U.S. CENSUS BUREAU DATABASES - Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, U.S.

DATA MAP (U.S.) - Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, U.S. Multimedia Databases (Text & Images) For more information see Bureau of Census

ECONOMAGIC: ECONOMIC TIME SERIES PAGE (SHOCKWAVE, QUICKTIME & SPREADSHEETS OPEN ONLINE WITH EXCEL, iWORK-NUMBERS, IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY, NEOOFFICE, OPENOFFICE CALC, ETC.) - T. Bos, Department of Finance, Economics, and Quantitative Methods, School of Business, University of Alabama VERY VERY VERY...EXTENSIVE.
Economagic
"...here are more than 200,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Though the greatest utility of this site is the vast number of economic time series, and the easily modified charts of that same data, an overlooked facility of great utility is the availability of Excel files for all series..."
Examples of Economic Time Series include
U.S.
Federal Reserve
"...Interest Rates;
Industrial Production, Capacity, Utilization and Electric Power Use;
Credit Market Debt Outstanding;
Consumer Credit; etc..."
Census Bureau
"...Manufacturing Shipments, Inventories, and Orders;
Retail Sales and Inventories Also link to Personal Consumption Expenditure;
Building Permits by Region, State, and Metro Areas;
Housing Construction; etc..."
Bureau of Labor Statistics
"...International Employment and Prices;
Consumer Price Index by Item and Place;
Producer Price Index by Product; etc..."
Congressional Budget Office; Department of Commerce; Department of Energy; etc..."
LIBOR; Bank of Canada; Bank of Japan; Central Bank of Europe;
Trade Associations and Private Companies; etc.
For more information see Ted Bos' Home Page or the School of Business

FEDSTATS - All of the statistical information available through FedStats is maintained and updated solely by Federal agencies on their own Internet servers - U.S. Government Multimedia Statistics Databases (Text & Images).
Fedstats
"...More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use..."

U.S. HEALTH STATISTICS: STATISTICAL TABLES - HEALTH - National Center for Health Statistics, CDC Multimedia Databases (Text & Images).
Health Statistics Databases include
"...Ambulatory Health Care, Behavioral Risk Factors, Diseases, Home Health and Hospice Care, Hospital Data, Infant and Child Health, Infertility, Injury, Nursing Homes, Sex Education, Sexual Activity, Use of Contraceptives & Vital Events..."
For more information see the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC

U.S. HEALTH STATISTICS: FASTSTATS - SATISTICAL TABLES - HEALTH - National Center for Health Statistics, CDC Multimedia Health Statistics Databases (Text & Images). For more information see Data Warehouse or the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC

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