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When looking for health
statistics, it may be useful to keep in mind a few rules
of thumb:
- It takes time
to compile information. Sometimes
the most recent statistical data will be 3 or
more years old.
- Check the sources
of statistics that you find. If you need
more detail, you may be able to contact the
agency, organization, or company that prepared
the data.
- Sometimes you
may not be able to locate figures at a municipal
or even a county level. If you absolutely
need more local data, you may have to contact
the local health department directly to find
out if the information is available.
- It is usually
easier to find data on "reportable" diseases.
Health care providers are required to provide
statistics on them.
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New
Jersey State Sources
Communicable
Diseases Service Statistics (NJ Department
of Health and Senior Services)
New
Jersey Center for Health Statistics
The New Jersey
Center for Health Statistics is your source for state
and local (primarily by county) statistics.
New Jersey Health Statistics from 1877 to 2000: An
Historical Electronic Compendium of Published Reports
This compendium is an enormous archive of official annual
reports on the health of New Jersey, including extensive
compilations of population-based health statistics, which
covers over 45,000 pages of original content in the 141
separate documents that it incorporates. Spanning three
centuries and the entire series of printed documents
from 1877 to 2000, all of the original reports had been
initially prepared as government publications.
Births
by Municipality (NJ Center for Health Statistics)
Covers 1989-1997.
Check New
Jersey Health Statistics for 1998 and onward.
Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) (NJ
Center for Health Statistics)
Figures for
New Jersey adults on a number of health issues appear
here.
Cancer
Among Hispanics In New Jersey, 1990-1996 (NJ
Office of Cancer Epidemiology)
Statistics
by race/ethnicity (Hispanics, Non-Hispanic Whites, and
Blacks), gender, and age.
County
Health Status Profiles (NJ Center for Health
Statistics)
Population
by age, natality, mortality, and morbidity. Covers
1996, 1998, and 2000.
Drug
and Alcohol Use Among New Jersey High School Students
(NJ Department of Law & Public Safety, Division
of Criminal Justice)
Covers
1980-1998.
Health
Insurance Coverage in New Jersey (NJ Center
for Health Statistics)
Figures by
age, race, income, employment, education, and sex.
Covers 1995-2004.
New
Jersey Health Statistics (NJ Center for Health
Statistics)
Population,
marriage & divorce, natality (births), morbidity
(diseases), and mortality (deaths). Covers 1993-2003.
New
Jersey Vaccine Preventable Childhood Diseases Preliminary
2000 Morbidity By County - Data on Pertussis,
Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Polio,
and Hib. Also available for 1999
(Preliminary), 1998,
1997,
1996.
Healthy
New Jersey 2010 State Health Issues Opinion Survey
(NJ Department of Health and Senior Services)
Results of
a public opinion poll of views on health issues. Conducted
by the Eagleton Institute.
New
Jersey State Cancer Registry (NJ Department
of Health and Senior Services)
Data covers
1979-1998, depending on the table.
Then
and Now in New Jersey: Health Profiles for 1900 and
2000 - (NJ Center for Health Statistics)
Interesting statistics about the life, illnesses and
deaths of persons living in New Jersey contrasted with
those living in the state in 2000.
Traumatic
Brain Injury in New Jersey (NJ Center for Health
Statistics)
Covers 1994.
Update
Healthy New Jersey 2000 - Second Update and Review
(NJ Department of Health and Senior Services)
Information
on preventive and primary care (1985-97); infant, child,
and maternal health (1985-98); adolescent health (1980-96);
cancer (1985-97); cardiovascular and other vascular
diseases (1985-97); AIDS (1988-97); sexually transmitted
diseases (1985-97); infectious diseases (1985-97); injuries
(1985-97); occupational & environmental hazards
(1983-97); addiction (1980-97); and causes of death
by age group (1996). Note that dates of coverage
vary by table.
CAMConnect - CAMConnect: Linking Communities with
Information is devoted to creating a learning partnership
in Camden, New Jersey, with the belief that sharing
and using data will lead to informed decisions and
better policy making to support the improved quality
of life of all Camden citizens.
Federal
Sources
Injuries,
Illnesses, and Fatalities (U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics) - Includes tables of incidence rates and
case counts for New
Jersey Occupational Injuries and Illnesses from
1996 to 2000. The tables are in PDF format and require
an Adobe
Acrobat Reader for viewing. There is also a searchable
database .
MapStats:
New Jersey (FedStats)
Here you can
retrieve, by state or county, statistics on a wide variety
of topics, including superfund sites, births and deaths,
and crime. For more statistics see FedStats:
Subjects A to Z.
U.S.
Census Data
The
Census Data from 2000 is available at this site.
Other
Resources
American
Hospital Directory - Searchable directory with
free data on services provided, beds and utilization
statistics, financial statistics, and inpatient and
outpatient statistics. Not all figures are available
for each hospital.
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