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Sometimes you will need to use statistics or data to help answer your assignment question or provide evidence to support your work. Below are links to authoritative sources of Australian and global health data and statistics.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Australia's official national statistical agency, the ABS provides official statistics on a range of economic, social, population, and environmental topics.
The Australian Data Archive (ADA)
The ADA provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data, including health studies, social attitudes surveys, and longitudinal studies.
Australian government Department of Health and Aged Care: statistics
Australian statistics and national health information, policies, and programs.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Informs best practice and policy for those working in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
Australia's national agency for health and welfare information and statistics. Useful for authoritative publications on health and welfare issues affecting Australia.

Watch What is statistics? (YouTube, 12m 59s) for an introduction to statistics.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Access the latest health statistics for the United States.
The Global Health Observatory
Provided by the World Health Organization: statistics by theme or country, indicators, and compilations of statistics in the publications section.
OECD health statistics
Datasets for a range of health statistics for populations around the world including health status, non-medical determinants of health, health resources, and health expenditure.
WHO: world health statistics
Annual reports provided by the World Health Organization.
World Bank - Health
Data here cover health systems, disease prevention, reproductive health, nutrition, and population dynamics from the U.N. Population Division, WHO, UNCF, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and others.

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Watch What is statistics? (YouTube, 12m 59s) for an introduction to statistics.