Research Data Resources
This site has been created to facilitate web use by the UMSL faculty and nursing students to access health-related data. It is a work in progress, but will provide some sites from which to begin your search. If you find a link that doesn't work or you have a suggestion, please send an email to nursing@umsl.edu.
UMSL Data
Resources
UMSL
faculty and students can use the UMSL library database
search page. This page allows searchs of the Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPRS) databases. The site enables
you identify the databases you are interested in, submit a request
via an UMSL request form, and access the databases later from this same
site. Raleign Muns
is the creator of database
search page and the contact person at UMSL. Most schools have
ICPRS representatives. If you are not from UMSL, check with your library
for an ICPRS representative. The databases are identified and linked
below, but the UMSL request forms and databases are maintained on the
database
search page.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) // data //
International Archive of Education Data // data //
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA) // data //
Criminal Justice Data Archives (NACJD) // data //
Urban Information Center- UM-St. Louis // data //
Additional
Data Resources
CDC
chronic disease data www.cdc.gov/yrbs
and www.cdc.gov/nccdphp
Combined health information database
Healthcare cost and utilization project (HCUP)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)