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