The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is an annual statewide telephone surveillance system designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

EpiQuery is a Web-based, user-friendly system designed to guide users through basic data analyses on several datasets, which include a variety of indicators related to diabetes.

Selected Metropolitan/Micropolitan Area Risk Trends (SMART) from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (SMART BRFSS) is an interactive chart tool from the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that provides data on New York State as a whole, and individual counties within the State.

EpiQuery is a Web-based, user-friendly system designed to guide users through basic data analyses on several datasets, which include a variety of indicators related to coverage.

The Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) collects patient-level information about the characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient, and emergency department admission.

This graph, produced by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows the diabetes death rates in the United States from 1979 to 2006. It also depicts the racial disparities in diabetes mortality.

The Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Office of Applied Studies has administered the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) annually since 1991.

The New York City Community Health Survey (CHS) is a telephone survey conducted annually by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. CHS provides robust data on the health of New Yorkers, including both neighborhood and citywide estimates on a broad range of chronic diseases and behavioral risk factors.

The New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES) is a community-based health survey conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH) and modeled after a similar national survey—the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

The New York State Department of Health County Health Indicator Profiles include demographic data from 2002 to 2006 on health and non-health indicators such as unemployment, household income, pregnancy, mortality rates for several different kids of cancer, suicide, and liver cirrhosis, which is highly correlated with alcohol use.