Tracking the spread and incidence rates of diseases affects everyone in the healthcare system. The ability to detect and control outbreaks, look for new threats, or changes in disease rates can alter our views about disease and the economics of the healthcare delivery system.
Cancer Mortality Maps & Graph Web Site
National Cancer Institute provides interactive maps, graphs (accessible to the blind and visually-impaired), text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
National Cancer Institute Fact Sheets
Incidence, survival rates, and deaths from various types of cancer for men and women from 1993-1996.
World Health Organization - Data
Numerous fact sheets on communicable and non-communicable diseases on a world basis. Mapping feature.
Statistics on various heart diseases, stroke, and high blood pressure classified by age, race and sex.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (CDC)
Weekly articles on death, accidents, and disease, 1993 forward.
National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data
NCHS data since 1994 on patient characteristics, diagnoses, and various forms of treatment.
