Portrait of Health in the United States : Major Statistical Trends and Guide to Resources 2001,9780890591895

Portrait of Health in the United States : Major Statistical Trends and Guide to Resources 2001

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ISBN13: 9780890591895
ISBN10: 089059189X
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Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Presents a picture of American health using a variety of measures ranging from self-perceived health status and reported acute and chronic health conditions to more objective measures such as life expectancy, medical diagnosis, hospitalization statistics, and death rates.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Preface xix
Why We Need Health Statistics
1(12)
A Social Definition of Health
1(1)
Public Health
1(1)
Health's Effect on the Economy
2(1)
Health Statistics as Indicators of Well-Being
3(2)
What Health Statistics Describe
5(2)
Framework of the Presentation
7(1)
Variation Is Key
7(1)
The Importance of Location
7(1)
Rationale for the Selection of Data
8(1)
Reaching Beyond This Book
8(3)
Notes
11(2)
Correlates
13(84)
Behavioral Correlates
13(1)
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
13(2)
State Restrictions on Tobacco Use
15(2)
Nutrition
17(1)
Hunger
17(1)
Calculating the Food Security Index
17(2)
Eating the Right Foods
19(2)
The Healthy Eating Index
21(1)
Physical Activity
21(1)
Sexual Activity
21(1)
Source of Data on Sexual Behavior
22(2)
Environmental Factors
24(1)
Lead Exposure in Children
24(2)
Air Quality
26(4)
Releases of Toxic Substances
30(1)
Workplace Hazards
30(3)
Social, Regulatory, and Health Care Factors
33(1)
Regulation of Transportation
33(1)
Food Safety
33(2)
Health Care Factors
35(1)
A Pattern of Uneven Care
35(1)
Cancer Screening
35(1)
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening
36(3)
Differences in Cancer Screening Rates by State
39(1)
Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Screening
39(2)
Summary
41(52)
Notes
93(4)
Conditions---Indicators of Wellness and Disease
97(122)
Measures and Indices of Health
97(1)
Morbidity Rates
97(1)
Mortality Rates as Indicators of Health
98(1)
Validity
98(1)
Sources
99(1)
How Morbidity Compares with Mortality
99(1)
Trends in the Overall Death Rate
100(1)
Infant Mortality
101(1)
How Infant Mortality is Measured
101(1)
Causes of Infant Deaths
101(2)
The Leading Causes of Death
103(4)
Age Differences
107(1)
Gender Differences
108(1)
Ethnic and Racial Differences
108(1)
Injuries
109(3)
Motor Vehicle Injuries and Deaths
112(1)
Sports Injuries
112(3)
Injuries in the Workplace
115(1)
Firearms-Related Injuries
115(1)
Data Sources for Injuries
115(2)
Malignancies and Chronic Diseases
117(1)
Diseases of the Circulatory System (Including Heart Disease and Stroke)
117(1)
Cancer
117(1)
Sources of Data on Cancer
117(1)
Cancer Incidence
118(1)
Prostate Cancer
118(1)
Breast Cancer
118(1)
Lung Cancer
119(1)
Survival of Persons with Cancer
119(2)
Cancer Mortality (Deaths)
121(2)
Comparison of Cancer Incidence, Survival, and Mortality
123(2)
Chronic Conditions
125(2)
Diabetes Mellitus
127(1)
Mental Disorders
128(2)
Acute Conditions
130(1)
Notifiable, Infectious, and Communicable Diseases
130(1)
Ongoing Surveillance
131(1)
Well-Known Infectious and Communicable Diseases
131(1)
Tuberculosis
131(1)
Hepatitis C
132(1)
Lyme Disease
132(1)
Rocky Mountain Fever
132(1)
Malaria
132(1)
Rabies
132(1)
Salmonellosis
132(1)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
132(1)
HIV/AIDS
132(2)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
134(1)
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
135(1)
Infectious Disease Data Sources
135(1)
Summary
136(80)
Notes
216(3)
Care
219(96)
Use of Health Care Services
219(1)
Access to Care
219(3)
Children
222(1)
Adults
222(1)
Families
222(2)
Outpatient Care
224(1)
Inpatient Hospital Care
224(2)
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
226(1)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
226(1)
Treatment for Alcohol and Illicit Drug Abuse
226(1)
Treatment for Mental Illness
227(1)
Home Health Care and Hospice Services
228(2)
Nursing Homes
230(1)
Unmet Medical Needs
230(1)
Inability to Obtain Needed Medical Care or Specific Medical Services
230(1)
Measuring Unmet Needs
230(1)
Annual Doctor Visits
231(1)
Health Insurance Coverage in the Population
231(1)
Continuous Health Insurance Coverage
232(1)
Insurance Data Sources
232(3)
Health Insurance---Related Legislative Provisions
235(1)
Quality of Care
235(1)
Setting Standards and Assessing Quality of Health Care
235(1)
Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
236(1)
Hospital-Acquired Diseases (Nosocomial Infections)
237(1)
Hospital Control of Infections Following Surgery for Specific Procedures
238(1)
Availability of Health Practitioners
238(1)
National Health Care Expenditures
239(1)
What the U.S. Health Dollars Buy
240(1)
The National Health Accounts
240(1)
Mental Health Expenditures
241(1)
Who Pays for Health Care in the U.S.
241(1)
The Health Care System
242(1)
Medicaid
243(1)
Summary
244(69)
Notes
313(2)
Consequences---The Effects of Health on People and the Society
315(46)
Main Trends
315(1)
Consequences of Health Practices
315(2)
Consequences of Environmental Exposure
317(1)
Life Expectancy
317(1)
Causes of Potential Years Lost
318(3)
Years of Potential Life Lost: The Measure
321(1)
Quality of Life
321(1)
Years of Healthy Life Index
322(1)
Use of Assistive Devices
322(1)
Vision and Hearing Impairment among Older Adults
323(1)
Activity Limitations
323(1)
Disability
324(1)
Leading Causes of Disability
324(2)
Children with Disabilities
326(1)
Adults with Disabilities
326(2)
Who Is Disabled?
328(1)
Data Sources on Disability
329(1)
Productivity (Work and School)
330(1)
Costs to Society from Poor Health
330(4)
Summary
334(25)
Notes
359(2)
How to Find More Health Statistics
361
Finding Health Statistics in Libraries
361
The Index to Health Information
361
Using the Internet
361
Guide to Health Statistics Sources on the Internet
361
General Purpose Web Sites
362
Portals
362
CDC Data and Surveillance Links Page
362
CDC WONDER
362
Data Council Inventory of Databases
362
FEDSTATS
362
Global Health Resources
362
Health, United States Appendix
362
Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe
363
NCHS Links
363
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
363
Social Statistics Briefing Room
363
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
363
Women with Disabilities---Statistical Information
363
Interactive Web Sites
363
Computer-Assisted Survey (UC-Berkeley)
364
FEDSTATS List of Interactive Sites
364
Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool (FERRET)
364
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Archive
364
Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (MassCHIP)
364
Trends in Health and Aging (NCHS Data Archive on Aging)
364
Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
365
Health Statistics Agencies' Web Sites
365
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
365
National Center for Health Statistics
365
National Vital Statistics System
365
Birth and Death Data
365
Fetal Death Data
366
National Mortality Followback Survey
366
National Health Interview Survey
366
National Immunization Survey
366
National Health Interview Survey on Disability
366
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
366
NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study
367
National Health Care Survey
367
CDC Surveillance Reports
367
National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System
367
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
367
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (YRBS) System
367
Other CDC Surveillance Sites
368
Health Care Financing Administration
368
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
368
Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS)
368
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
368
Drug Abuse Warning Network
368
National Substance Abuse Web Index
369
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)
369
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
369
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
369
Indian Health Service
369
National Institutes of Health
370
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
370
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
370
CancerNet
370
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program
370
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
370
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
370
Monitoring the Future
370
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
370
National Institute of Mental Health
371
Administration on Aging
371
Other Federal Agencies
371
Bureau of the Census Disability Statistics
371
Bureau of Labor Statistics
371
Occupational Health Statistics
371
Department of Transportation
371
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
371
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
371
U.S. Department of Agriculture
371
FoodNet
372
State Data
372
Directory of State Government Offices
372
NCHS State Data Sites
372
CDC List of State Health Departments
372
International Sites
372
United Nations Statistics Office
372
Info Nation
372
World Health Organization's Statistical Information System
372
Health-Related Web Sites of World Health Organization Member Nations
372
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
372
Pan American Health Organization
372
Progress of Nations, 1998
372
Nongovernmental Organizations
373
National Safety Council's Statistics Department
373
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries
373
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
373
Partnership for a Drug-Free America
373
Kaiser Family Foundation-State Health Facts
373
Center for International Health Information
373
American Cancer Society
373
American Heart Association
373
Publications
373
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
373
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
373
Vital and Health Statistics Series (NCHS)
374
National Vital Statistics Report
374
Changing America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin
374
Surgeon General Reports
374
Women of Color Health Data Book (NWHIC)
374
Mental Health, United States (Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA)
374
Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse in the United States, 1992
374
Atlas of United States Mortality
374
Atlas of Cancer Mortality, 1950-1994
374
Chronic Disease Prevention File
374
Alcohol Epidemiologic Data Directory
375
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
375
SAMHSA Statistics Source Book
375
Women and Heart Disease (CDC)
375
Notes
376

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