Health, United States, 2007 is the 31st annual report on the health status of the Nation and is submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President and Congress. It contains detailed tables and charts on health status and its determinants, health care resources, health care utilization, and health insurance and expenditures.
Health, United States focuses primarily on trends over time in health statistics. Comparable data must be available for at least two points in time and available at the national level. In addition to national level data, data are commonly shown by age group, sex, race and Hispanic origin, geography, poverty status, and education level whenever possible.
Due to the encyclopedic nature of Health, United States, it is a valuable resource for a wide array of health statistics. In addition to presenting key findings from the major data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States presents many unique data analyses not published elsewhere. Health, United States also contains relevant health data from other Federal agencies, and private and global sources.
Health, United States, 2007 has two major components: A Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans that illustrates with text and figures major trends in health and 151 detailed trend tables. The two major components are supplemented by an executive summary, highlights, and an index. The appendixes contain detailed source information, as well as explanations of methods and definitions of terms.
Health, United States, 2007 chartbook has 37 graphs and text organized around the following health-related topics: population characteristics, health insurance and expenditures, risk factors, morbidity and limitation of activity, health care utilization and mortality. Each year the chartbook contains a special feature; the 2007 special feature is on access to care.
Health, United States, 2007 has 151 detailed trend tables including data on such topics as population numbers by race and Hispanic origin, fertility, natality, mortality, disease prevalence, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health care personnel and facilities, national and state health expenditures, and health insurance coverage.
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