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Mental Health Links - Statistics

Organizations

• Office of Applied Studies (OAS)

  http://www.oas.samhsa.gov
  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Office of Applied Studies provides the latest National data on (1) alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drug abuse, (2) drug-related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases, and (3) the Nations substance abuse treatment system.
  
  

• Mental Health, United States, 2002

  http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA04-3938/default.asp
  
  
  

• Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program

  http://www.mhsip.org/
  The Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program develops standards for colleting mental health information or data—how to collect it, what needs to be collected, where to find what others have collected, how to understand what you find, how to report it so other people can understand it, and how to use it to make decisions.
  
  

• National Center for Health Statistics

  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
  This is the Federal Government's principal vital and health statistics agency. The agency provides a wide variety of data with which to monitor the Nation's health.
  
  

• Basic Statistics and HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports

  http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm
  This site provides tabular and graphic information about U.S. AIDS and HIV case reports, including data by State, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure to HIV, sex, race/ethnicity, age group, vital status, and case definition category.
  
  

• State Health Facts Online by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

  http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/
  The Foundation disseminates information about health care issues and policies for health care professionals, policy makers, and the general public. State Health Facts online provides health care demographics on a state level.
  
  

• U.S. Bureau of the Census

  http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
  This site provides a locator service providing quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography for each state. It includes Census 2000 data.
  
  

Online Resources

• National Vital Statistics Reports

  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_08.pdf
  This report presents the final 1999 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant mortality are also described.
  
  

• In Harm's Way: Suicide in America

  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/harmaway.cfm
  This fact sheet from the National Institute of Mental Health provides statistics about suicide incidents in the United States.
  
  

• Chartbooks of the National Center for Health Statistics

  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
  NCHS is the Nation's principal agency on health statistics. NCHS produces chartbooks on American health care trends.
  
  

• FedStats

  http://www.fedstats.gov
  This site is a gateway to statistics on many topics, collected by a variety of government agencies.
  
  

• Disparities in Mental Health—CDC's Office of Minority Health

  http://www.cdc.gov/omh/AMH/factsheets/mental.htm
  This page provides facts and data about mental health and barriers to care issues experienced by specific minority groups and lists steps to reduce and eliminate the disparity in care and treatment accessibility between non-minority and minority populations
  
  

• Funding Sources and Expenditures of State Mental Health Agencies: Fiscal Year 2001

  http://www.nri-inc.org/revexpreport.cfm
  In keeping with past tradition, this report from the National Research Institute analyzes trends in the delivery and financing of mental health services.
  
  

• CDC WISQARS

  http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/
  The Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data.
  
  

• Consumer Surveys from the Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP)

  http://www.mhsip.org/surveylink.htm
  These surveys from MHSIP are made available free of charge.
  
  

• CMHS Mental Health Statistics

  http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/MentalHealthStatistics/default.asp
  The Mental Health Statistics program of the Center for Mental Health Services.
  
  

• Reports of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

  http://www.mentalhealthcommission.gov/reports/reports.htm
  The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health was established as part of the President's agenda to enable Americans with mental illness to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities.
  
  

• SAMHSA's Data Systems

  http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/MentalHealthStatistics/URS2002.asp
  SAMHSA's Data Systems provides links to three of SAMHSA's agency websites that maintain statistics on substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services.
  
  

• Statistical Information on Older Persons

  http://www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/statistics.asp
  This site provides links to narrative and statistical tables related to issues of aging and Older Americans from several federal agencies and departments.
  
  

• Statistics from the National Institute of Mental Health

  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/statisticsmenu.cfm
  A compilation of statistical mental health resources provided by the National Institute of Mental Health.
  
  

• The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America

  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm
  This fact sheet from the National Institute of Mental Health provides statistics about various forms of mental disorders in the United States.