Data from Non-Profit Organizations
America's Health (United Health Foundation)
"Achieving and maintaining health is an essential priority for our nation. Health is ultimately the combination of our biology, the behaviors and choices that we make, the social environment in which we live, and our access to medical care resources. America's Health Rankings™ is intended to provide useful information for creating the environments necessary for optimal health status."
Kaiser StateHealthFacts.org
"Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 500 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation website (www.kff.org) and KaiserNetwork.org (www.kaisernetwork.org).
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries."
SocialExplorer
"Social Explorer is based at Queens College of the City University of New York. Our objective is to help visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. Our primary functions include Demographic Data Analysis, Interactive Map/Report Design and Software Development.
Our main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county. For more recent years, one can display areas as small are your own neighborhood. Certain cities may even be displayed as far back as 1910. To do this we have developed a collection of interactive demographic maps that can be viewed, queried and manipulated on our site."
DiversityData
"Diversitydata.org allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of social measures that comprise a well-rounded life experience." Cities in TX include but are not limited to: Abilene, Austin, Brazoria, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, Tyler, and Waco.
Kids Count 2006 Data Book Online (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
"Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book are now available in our easy-to-use, powerful online database, "State Level Data Online", that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or, download the entire data set as delimited text files. The pull-down menus to the left also allow you to read the book online or view the book in PDF format."
Cancer Facts & Figures (American Cancer Society)
This goes to the most recent report but there are links to reports back to 1997.
State Tobacco Settlement (Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids)
"Since the November 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement, we have issued regular reports assessing whether the states are keeping their promise to use a significant portion of the settlement funds - expected to total $246 billion over the first 25 years - to attack the enormous public health problem posed by tobacco use in the United States.
This year, we find that while the states have modestly increased total funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, the vast majority of states are still failing to keep the promise of the tobacco settlement and falling far short of funding such programs at even minimum levels recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."
