Health, United States (National Center for Health Statistics)

• Health United States (annual)
  This is the single largest compilation of national health statistics produced annually in the U.S. The site includes full reports from 1993 through present. Each report contains national data (with state estimates for selected measures) on key trends and statistics including a) fertility and natality; b) mortality; c) morbidity; d) determinants and measures of health (including health behaviors); e) utilization of health resources; f) health care resources; g) health care expenditures; h) health care coverage (including
  federal programs); and i) state health expenditures.
• Health United States (links to individual reports)
  Health United States, 2002 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
  Health United States, 2001 with Urban and Rural Health Chartbook
  Health United States, 2000 with Adolescent Health Chartbook
  Health United States, 1999 with Health and Aging Chartbook
  Health United States, 1998 with Socioeconomic Status and Health Chartbook
  Health United States, 1996-97 with Injury Chartbook
  Health United States, 1995 with Women's Health Chartbook
  Health United States, 1994 with Chartbook
  Health United States, 1993 with Chartbook
  Health United States, 1975 through 1992 (ordering information only)

Healthy People Reports (Dept. of Health and Human Services)

• Healthy People 2010
  Healthy People 2010 is the prevention agenda for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
  
• Healthy People 2000 Review (annual)
  This annual report presents statistical progress toward each of the Healthy People 2000 goals Full text (.pdf) files linked to this list: Healthy People 2000 Review 1994 through most recent issue. Note: The 1992 Healthy People 2000 Review was issued bound with Health, United States, 1992.
• Healthy People 2000
  In September 1990, the Department of Health and Human Services released Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, a strategy for improving the health of Americans by the end of the century. Healthy People 2000 contains 319 unduplicated main objectives grouped into 22 priority areas.

GEOGRAPHIC PROFILES

• Dartmouth Atlas
  The Dartmouth Atlas project brings together researchers in diverse disciplines - including epidemiology, economics, and statistics - and focuses on the accurate description of how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The 1996, 1998 and 1999 editions are downloadable. The Atlas has examined major topics including a) unwarranted variation in the use of care, is more health care better?, reforming the Medicare program, care at the end of life and shared decision-making.

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Women's Health USA 2002 (Health Resources and Services Administration)
This first annual report on the health status of America's women brings together key facts and figures to profile the health of women throughout the nation and provides easy-to-use statistical information. Includes current and historical data on a) population characteristics; b) health status; and c) health services utilization and expenditures. Full report is downloadable.