Community Health Status Indicators

Overview: County-level indicators of health Covers 3,141 US counties Approx 200 elements Launched in 2000, in hiatus 2004-2006, but working since then Source link Elements: [freemind]/wp-content/uploads/mindmaps/CHSI.mm[/freemind]

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Overview: SAMHSA was established in 1992 to target substance abuse and mental health services The Office of Applied Studies (OAS) is an Office within SAMHSA- it is the primary source of national data on the prevalence, treatment, and consequences of substance abuse in the United States. Data is collected on drug-related emergency room visits and drug-related deaths; also on the location,...

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Small Area Health Insurance Estimates

Overview: Model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for states and all counties in US In July 2005, SAHIE released the first nation-wide set of county-level estimates on uninsured In July 2010, SAHIE released 2007 estimates of health insurance coverage by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and income categories at the state-level and by age, sex, and income categories at the county-level...

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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Overview: Information on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and health care access primarily related to chronic disease and injury Claimed to be world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system More than 350,000 adults are interviewed each year Tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States annually Operational since 1984 Source Link

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