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• Adult care services (12)
• Affordable Care Act (4)
• Aging population (23)
• Allergies (5)
• Alzheimers disease (8)
• Ambulatory care (7)
• Antibiotics (3)
• Anxiety (22)
• Assisted living (17)
• Assisted living facilities (8)
• Asthma (8)
• Attitudes toward death (4)
• Biomarkers (9)
• Breast cancer (4)
• Cancer (14)
• Cardiovascular disease (13)
• Causes of death (17)
• Child health (46)
• Chronic illnesses (31)
• Cognitive functioning (34)
• Cognitive impairment (5)
• Communicable diseases (8)
• Community health (24)
• Dementia (5)
• Depression (psychology) (43)
• Diabetes (21)
• Digestive disorders (2)
• Disease prevention (13)
• Eldercare (13)
• Emergency services (12)
• Epidemiology (9)
• Genetics data (2)
• Group medical practice (4)
• Health (168)
• Health attitudes (37)
• Health behavior (92)
• Health care (106)
• Health care access (73)
• Health care costs (63)
• Health care delivery (24)
• Health care facilities (45)
• Health care reform (29)
• Health care services (111)
• Health departments (8)
• Health education (20)
• Health expenditures (19)
• Health insurance (130)
• Health planning (6)
• Health policy (18)
• Health problems (46)
• Health professions (8)
• Health services utilization (81)
• Health status (149)
• Hearing (physiology) (6)
• Hearing impairment (6)
• HIV (52)
• Home care (7)
• Home care agencies (7)
• Home health care (11)
• Hospices (3)
• Hospitalization (25)
• Hospitals (29)
• Illness (36)
• Immunization (8)
• Influenza (6)
• Institutional care (13)
• Insurance (14)
• Insurance coverage (33)
• Life support systems (3)
• Living wills (2)
• Long term care (29)
• Long term care insurance (6)
• Mammography (3)
• Medicaid (26)
• Medical care (73)
• Medical education (6)
• Medical evaluation (32)
• Medical history (20)
• Medical malpractice (7)
• Medical procedures (12)
• Medical records (15)
• Medical schools (2)
• Medical specializations (5)
• Medical students (4)
• Medicare (31)
• Medications (21)
• Mental health (185)
• Mental health services (38)
• Miscarriages (4)
• Morbidity (6)
• Mortality rates (61)
• Nurses (5)
• Nursing homes (19)
• Pain (8)
• Patient care (31)
• Patients (23)
• Physician availability (5)
• Physician choice (5)
• Physician patient relationship (11)
• Physician practice (12)
• Physicians (24)
• Primary care (14)
• Private health insurance (5)
• Psychiatric services (10)
• Public health (45)
• Renal disease (2)
• Respiratory diseases (6)
• Sexually transmitted disease (6)
• Sleep disorders (6)
• Smoking (51)
• Stem cell research (5)
• Terminal care (4)
• Terminal illnesses (4)
• Traditional healers (2)
• Traditional medicine (4)
• Treatment (41)
• Treatment compliance (13)
• Treatment costs (3)
• Treatment facilities (18)
• Treatment outcomes (29)
• Treatment programs (82)
• Vaccines (10)
• Womens health care (10)

• Guide to using ICPSR
• Guide to using Roper Center and iPoll data

Example path you might take:

1. Search at the variable level for a specific word of interest
2. Read the full question to see whether it would work for your project
3. Check the other questions in the same study if you will be looking for relationships between variables
4. Open the documentation or codebook to see all the questions in the study and check into methodology

• re3Data: Registry of Research Data Repositories 
  Search subject-specific data archives as opposed to studies or variables within studies
• NYU Health Sciences Library Data Catalog 
  Find freely available data by choosing "Free to All" in the left-hand navigation column.
• Harvard Dataverse 

NATIONWIDE

• Health on Data.gov -- points to both state and federal research data and statistical tables
• Overview of the CDC's main data resources. 
• National Center for Health Statistics Public Use Data Files
  • Restricted health data from the National Center for Health Statistics through our Research Data Center in Ellis Library, MU Campus.  Extensive application process may be involved in order to preserve confidentiality of subjects.
• HealthData.Gov
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• National Cancer Institute SEER data
• Biologic Specimen and Data Repository Information Coordinating Center (bioLINCC)
• Health Data Tools and Statistics from Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
• OpenFDA Food and Drug Administration site includes data on drugs and medical devices
• The General Social Survey (1972-2014) asked 177 questions relating to health

STATES

• Missouri Information for Community Assessment (MICA) health datasets
• Massachusetts All Payer Claims Database
• Many more

• Odesi, Canada's data portal
• UK Data Service Nesstar Catalogue  -- online analysis enabled for...
  • Health Survey for England
  • Scottish Health Survey, 2003-2014
  • Health Survey Northern Ireland
• Demographic and Health Surveys (mainly underdeveloped countries)

• Sociometrics Exemplary Datasets