Perinatal Health in the United States

March of Dimes site for perinatal health. Remember in class I talked about disaggregating IMRs by race? Here is a quick and easy way to check out such stats by state and even by county. I asserted in class that IMRs for African Americans got close to 20 in some states. I looked at statewide #s and found some in the high teens but none as high as 20. I might have been remembering an old statistic (I recall looking at this in hard copy not online) OR I could have been looking at some specific county level data. In any event, if interest takes you in this direction, here's a good place to look. Of course, primary data of this sort will be collected and analyzed by most State Health Departments. The MOD site provides a link to such departments when you specific a state in your search.

International Data Base (IDB)

The famous IDB site -- the online access link is a good one. Maybe start with summary data though -- while the PRB does most recent data, this site allows you relatively easy access to historical data. The trouble is its coverage is quite uneven.

Country Reports on Health, Nutrition, Population, and Poverty

Super interesting site from WBank. I jumped to it from their World Development Indicators CD product.