Australian
- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) Australian National agency for health and welfare statistics and information.
Includes the National Mortality Database -used for cause of death analysis by population groups. - National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) from the Communicable Diseases Network Australia co-ordinates the national surveillance of more than 50 communicable diseases or disease groups.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Australia's national statistical service. Wide range of data and statistics on many aspects relating to health research.
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Worldwide
- WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) WHOSIS is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 70 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables
- OECD Health Data 2008 OECD Health Data 2008 offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems in OECD economies.
(Open the resource then click on OECD Health Data in the bottom left hand corner)
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Collection: Wellcome Images
Chart showing cases of typhus and typhoid fever admitted to the London Fever Hospital in 1842-1862.
From: A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain
By: Charles Murchison
Published: London 1862
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0 UK
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