Health Journalism Data

A dataset from the Aging, Dementia and Traumatic Brain injury trial is available from The Allen Institute for Brain Science. The study…

Cancer Statistics Center: The American Cancer Society has unveiled a database on incidence and death rates for the most common types of…

Provisional death counts (table 1, screen 2) are based on death certificate data received and coded by the National Center for…

NYC Department for the Aging (DFTA) database of Geriatric Mental Health Providers provides Listing of DFTA Geriatric Mental Health Contracts Information and…

The Chicago Core on Biomarkers in Population-Based Aging Research (CCBAR) aims to build and advance interdisciplinary scientific discourse on the rationale,…

CMS Geographic Variation Public Use Files for 2020: an annual update. These files contain demographic, spending, utilization and quality indicators…

Atlas of Rural and Small Town America: County-level data for population change overall and by demographic group, includes 60 socioeconomic…

Cost of falls by state 2018 (CDC data): As the number of Americans 65 and older grows, fall injuries and treatment…

Data Commons synthesizes a single graph, map or plot from different data sources. It links references to the same entities…

According to the most recent CDC data summary, in 2022, more than a quarter million deaths (288,436) deaths among U.S.…

International Database: World Population Estimates and Projections via U.S. Census Bureau — demographic indicators, population pyramids, mapping and source information…

Learn how many nursing aides, home health aides, and personal care aides work in each state. Direct care workers are important…

The Disability and Health Data System (DHDS) has state-level health and demographic data about adults with disabilities broken by type, demographics and other…

The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care publishes extensive data on intensity of spending on medical services at the end of…

Snapshot of poverty among seniors – supplemental poverty measure: Poverty rates are traditionally measured using a threshold of three times the…

Data on global and regional estimates for mortality, disability, disease burden, life expectancy, and risk factors from GBD 2010 downloaded…

WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)WHO’s SAGE is a longitudinal study collecting data on adults aged 50…

The Health Information National Trends Survey is an annual national sampling on how Americans find, understand and act on health…

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUPnet) is an online tool based on data from the Agency for Healthcare Quality and…

The Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE) provides data on risk factors for mortality and…

August 2018: CMS has posted the Home Health Agency Public Use File (PUF) with data for 2016. This PUF summarizes utilization,…

National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) Hospital Cost Calculator (Excel spreadsheet): All Medicare-certified hospitals are required to file an…

In 2023, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 78.4 years for the total U.S. population — an increase…

Brown University LTC Focus data: Data on the health and functional status of nursing home residents, characteristics of care facilities, state…

Medicare Total Enrollment tables (updated Jan 2021) Information on all Medicare enrollees by geography, type of coverage, type of entitlement,…

Medicare provider payment and utilization public use files Three new (as of May 2025) updates from Medicare can help journalists…

DrugAlert.org is a comprehensive database featuring information and news alerts about potentially dangerous drugs currently on the market or previously…

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created by the World Health Organization to provide detailed mortality and population data about the…

The  NSHAP is a longitudinal, population-based study of health and social factors, aiming to understand the well-being of older, community-dwelling Americans…

The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC) has published the latest staffing data for every U.S. nursing home. This follows…

FoodData Central is an integrated data system that provides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research…

The Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics of Human Capital (BDS-HC) tables classify firms based on their share of workers over…

The Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool, updated in November 2017, is an interactive tool that shows geographic comparisons, at…

State-by-state scorecard on access to palliative care services.

Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: 2015 Part D Prescriber: The Part D Prescriber Public Use File has information on…

Senior Report 2023 Measures from America’s Health Rankings drills down to specifics for each measure listed in the report, including…

The Data Query System from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics is a new data visualization tool that can…

Food Environment Atlas: Many elderly suffer from poor or malnutrition. They may live in food deserts, can’t afford nutritious food, or…