Government Information: Health

Health Resources

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Includes press releases, fact sheets, speeches, congressional testimony, and a public forum; provides pointers to Internet sites of HHS agencies; has a consumer information locator; and provides information on grants and research opportunities.
National Center for Health Statistics
Population Surveys, Vital Records, Provider Surveys, Historical Surveys
Centers for Disease Control
Diseases and conditions, Healthy living, Traveler's health, Emergency preparedness
Health United States
Health.gov
Health Information via the National Institutes of Health
HealthFinder.gov
Consumer health and human services information gateway.
Public Health Reports
The official journal of the office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service. PHR is published by SAGE Publishing Inc.
Vital Statistics of the United States
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
CDC’s primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations.
Where to Write for Vital Records
Policy Surveillance Program
Datasets on LawAtlas.org use policy surveillance to capture the characteristics of laws and policies of public health significance. See Topics in the menu.

TOXNET
Resource for searching databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
Nutrition.gov
Medicare.gov
PubMed Central
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
PubMed/Medline
PubMed comprises more than 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
MedLine Plus
Information about diseases, conditions, and wellness.