Sources of downloadable data sets

• Centers for Disease Conrol Wonder System http://wonder.cdc.gov/
  Data from the CDC databases MMWR, Mortality, Natality, NIOSH Mortality, Prevention Guidelines, SEER, Sexually Transmitted Disease Morbidity, STD_Documents, AIDS-Public Use, CBA_CEA Bibliography, CDP_FILE, FARS - Fatal Accident Reporting, IRIS - Injury Research Information System, Microfiche AIDS, Population/Census State Projections, PUBS, Training Calendar, Fluoridation Census, Healthy People_2000, NHDS-National Hospital Discharge Survey, NIO1 Mortality Industry Occupation Alpha, NIO2 Mortality Industry Occupation Codes, Travel Information, and HRSA Models That Work: The 1995 Compendium of Innovative Primary Health Care Programs for Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
• University of Michigan, Survey Research Center http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/research.html
  Downloadable data from The Asset Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), The Health and Retirement Study (HRS), and The Michigan Prevention Research Center (MPRC).
• Longitudinal studies from the CDC ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/
  Downloadable data from the CDC's ftp server. The Longitudinal Survey of Aging (LSOA), The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), The National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS), The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), The National Health Care Survey (NHCS), The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) should all eventually be available here. Thus far, only the 1993 and 1994 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys (NAMCS), part of NCHS' National Health Care Survey, are available.
  Documentation is available at ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/
  Extensive descriptions of these surveys can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/systems0.htm
• Medicare Managed Care Contract (MMCC) Plans- Monthly Summary Reports http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/mmcc.htm
  The Medicare Managed Care Summary Report, which includes Current Contract Summary, Payment Statistics, Enrollment Statistics, Changes Since Previous Month Report Summary, Pending Applications (Numbers only - No Plan Names), Pending Service Area Summary (Numbers only - No Plan Names); The Enrollment and Payment Summary, which Lists by Type of Contract all Medicare HMO/CMP plans that are active as of the first day of the requested month; The Summary of Medicare Risk/Cost/HCPP Contracts, by Model type and Ownership type, that are active as of the first day of the requested month, and includes both number of contracts and Enrollment totals; The Medicare Prepaid Operations * Post TEFRA Only, with totals of all signed active Post Tefra, Old Risk and Demo Contracts that are active as of the first day of the requested month; The Medicare Enrollee Distribution by State, which Provides a summary, by State, of Risk, Cost and HCPP Medicare contracts, including National totals; and The Benefit and Premium Summary * Plan Counts, which Displays benefits over and above the Medicare coverage offered by active Tefra Risk HMO and CMP contracts.