Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) provides full text access to authoritive information and statistics related to health and wellbeing in Australia.
Primary Health Networks (PHNs)Formerly Medicare Locals.
From the Australian Department of Health.
A good source of public health maps and data. Includes Comprehensive Needs Assessments for many areas.
Healthy community indicatorsProvides nationally consistent, locally relevant and comparable information about Australia’s health system to inform consumers, stimulate and inform improvements and increase transparency and accountability.
Database provides access to all ABS online statistical services including census data, labour force statistics and Australian social trends. Subjects include wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters.
PHIDUYour interactive pathway into the world of data on health and its determinants in Australia
World Health Organization (WHO)WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.
Our goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.
Tutorials
Finding and Using Health StatisticsFrom the US National Library of Medicine.
A comprehesive tutorial on finding and interpreting health statistics. Strong emphasis on US stats, but still very useful intro to the field.