Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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National Academies Press (NAP) - free PDFs online

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Focus on improving both the health of everyone in America and their health care—how it's delivered, how it's paid for, and how well it does for patients and their families

SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.

Kaiser is a non-profit, private operating foundation. KFF programs involve policy analysis, polling, journalism and communication. Website topis: Disparities Policy, Global Health Policy, Health Costs, Health Reform, HIV/AIDS, Medicaid and Medicare, Private Insurance, Uninsured and Women’s Health Policy.

USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad.

The ACHA-National College Health Assessment (NCHA) is a nationally recognized research survey that can assist you in collecting precise data about your students’ health habits, behaviors, and perceptions.

This course teaches Epi Info™ within the framework of a Community Health Assessment. Beginner and Intermediate students will learn to create a survey, enter data, and analyze the results.

HSRR is a searchable database of information about research datasets, instruments/indices and software. Run by the National Institute of Health (NIH) through the US National Library of Medicine (NLM).

This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a compilation of tools designed to measure victimization from and perpetration of IPV.

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.

Link is direct to surveys

The Core Institute is the largest national Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) database about college student's drinking and drug use in the country. We offer a comprehensive range of cost-effective surveys that measure risky behaviors.

The world's largest, on-going telephone health survey system. Compare prevalence of variables across states or years. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults

Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults.