Welch Medical Library Guides: Data Resources for Health & Medical Research: City, State, Region Data

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500 Cities: Local Data for Better Health
"The 500 Cities project is a collaboration between CDC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation. The purpose of the 500 Cities Project is to provide city- and census tract-level small area estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use for the largest 500 cities in the United States. These small area estimates will allow cities and local health departments to better understand the burden and geographic distribution of health-related variables in their jurisdictions, and assist them in planning public health interventions."
Baltimore City Health Department
The Baltimore City Health Department has a wealth of statistical information about the state of Baltimoreans' health.
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future is an excellent place to find information on the availability, or lack thereof, of healthy food options for Baltimore's residents.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: State Snapshots
The State Snapshots provide graphical representations of State-specific health care quality information, including strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The goal is to help State officials and their public- and private-sector partners better understand health care quality and disparities in their State. State-level information used to create the State Snapshots is based on data collected for the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR).
Kaiser Family Foundation: State Health Facts
A Kaiser Family Foundation site that provides statistics on more than 500 health topics for each state.
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is a first top for searching health-related information pertaining to Maryland.
State Stats
Comprehensive data coverage of each state including health care, crime, education and more. You'll find reliable, easy-to-use data from more than 80 different sources covering more than 15 years.
Trust for America's Health: Maryland
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. TFAH has state-specific public health data.
United Health Foundation: America's Health Rankings - Maryland
For nearly 3 decades, America’s Health Rankings has provided an analysis of national health on a state-by-state basis by evaluating a historical and comprehensive set of health, environmental and socioeconomic data to determine national health benchmarks and state rankings. America’s Health Rankings employs a unique methodology, developed and annually reviewed and overseen by a Scientific Advisory Committee of leading public health scholars. The data in the report come from well-recognized outside sources such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Association, FBI, Dartmouth Atlas Project, U.S. Department of Education and Census Bureau.