INSIDE NCHS: FEATURED TOPICS
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Thanks to innovations in data warehousing, access and reporting, the Division of Vital Statistics is rewriting the rules of mortality surveillance. |
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"Unforgettable and Enlightening" Working with the local health team, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and other nongovernmental organizations, Dr. Anne Driscoll experienced firsthand the measures taken to combat the Ebola virus in Liberia. |
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Dr. Joseph Woodring Returns from Battling Ebola in Liberia As part of CDC's Ebola Response, NCHS Senior Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Woodring spent a month in Liberia, where he joined an international team of health experts battling Ebola, training health care workers and investigating exposures. |
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Nation at a Glance: Declining Teen Birth Rates by State Teen birth rates declined significantly in all states during 1991-2012. Explore our interactive map of 2012, 2000, and 1991 teen birth rates, from our report, "National and State Patterns of Teen Births in the United States, 1940-2013". |
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Nation at a Glance: Age-Adjusted Death Rates, by State Which state has the highest age-adjusted death rate? Which has the lowest? Which have rates above or below the overall rate for the U.S.? Explore our interactive map of 2011 age-adjusted death rates, from the National Vital Statistics System. |
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Ask the Expert: Dr. Kirsten Herrick In 2012, the majority of U.S. youth watched TV or used a computer daily. Yet only 27% of youth aged 12-15 met recommended guidelines of 2 hours or less of screen time daily. Sound familiar? Dr. Kirsten Herrick discusses in "Ask the Expert." |
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The Birth Certificate (Finally) Goes National Substantive changes to the standard birth certificate, redefining it as a vital statistics database and emphasizing automated data collection, will be implemented nationwide by year's end. The result: greatly improved data quality and timeliness. |
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News Brief: Older Women, First Births A recent NCHS Data Brief, showing a significant increase in first births to women aged 35 and older over the past four decades, has received widespread attention from broadcast, print, and Web-based media nationwide. |
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Nation at a Glance: First Births to Women Aged 40-44 Which state has the highest rate of first births to women aged 40-44? Which has the lowest? How does your state compare? Explore our interactive U.S. map of first birth rates to older women, 2000 and 2012, from the National Vital Statistics System. |
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Catching Up With: ASA President Dr. Nathaniel Schenker Five months after becoming president of the American Statistical Association, ORM Director Dr. Nathaniel Schenker has wasted no time implementing his top initiatives: curricula guidelines, leadership training, and a new statistical Web portal. |
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Ask the Expert: Dr. Julia Holmes, Health, United States Dr. Julia Holmes, Branch Chief, Analytic Studies, Office of Analysis & Epidemiology, discusses the challenges and rewards of publishing NCHS' flagship annual report to Congress and the President of the United States. |
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Director's Corner—NCHS and Public Health With National Public Health Week underway, NCHS director Charles Rothwell reflects on the Center's contributions and ever-evolving role in the nation's public health. |
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News Brief: Teen Pregnancy, and Sedentary Time and Disability Data collected through NCHS' National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used as the foundation for two important studies released this year that attracted significant national media attention. |
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Nation at a Glance: Primary Cesarean Delivery Rates Which state has the highest primary cesarean delivery rates? Which has the lowest? How does your state compare? Explore our interactive map of state-level cesarean delivery data from the Revised Birth Certificate, 2006-2012. |
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The CDC's Health Economic Research Group presented Dr. Decker with the 2013 Kaafee Billah Memorial Award for outstanding health economics research, for her 2012 study of the uninsured, Medicare, and health costs. |
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Ask the Expert: Dr. Kathryn Porter What to do with 23 years' worth of genetic samples collected through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)? Dr. Kathryn Porter discusses the history of NHANES and genomic research, and issues facing population-based surveys. |
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Ask the Expert: Dr. Stephen Blumberg Dr. Stephen Blumberg, lead author of two recent reports on wireless substitution, discusses the steady growth in wireless-only households, wireless-only adults and high-risk behavior, and the impact of wireless on getting good data. |
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Nation at a Glance: Wireless-Only Households We look at data from Wireless Substitution: State-level Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2012. |
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Director's Corner—New Year, New Challenges, New Opportunities Charles Rothwell reflects on the Center's successes in the past year, as well as new challenges and opportunities in 2014. |
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Feasibility Files Help Researchers Manage Scope, Quality of Research Feasibility data files help researchers determine the scope of available linked records beforehand, saving valuable time and research dollars. |
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New RELEASES
Births: Preliminary Data for 2014 NVSR Vol. 64 No. 6, June 2015
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Men’s Use of Mental Health Treatments NCHS Data Brief No. 206, June 2015
Communication Disorders and Use of Intervention Services Among Children Aged 3–17 Years: United States, 2012 NCHS Data Brief No. 205, June 2015
Characteristics of Children in Medicaid Managed Care and Medicaid Fee-for-service, 2003–2005 NHSR No. 80, June 2015
Three Decades of Nonmarital First Births Among Fathers Aged 15–44 in the United States NCHS Data Brief No. 204, June 2015
HIV Testing in the Past Year Among the U.S. Household Population Aged 15–44: 2011–2013 NCHS Data Brief No. 202, June 2015
Measuring Gestational Age in Vital Statistics Data: Transitioning to the Obstetric Estimate NVSR Vol. 64 No. 5, June 2015
Serious Psychological Distress Among Adults: United States, 2009–2013 NCHS Data Brief No. 203, May 2015
Insurance Status by State Medicaid Expansion Status: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, 2013–September 2014 NHIS Early Release, May 2015
Maternal Morbidity for Vaginal and Cesarean Deliveries, According to Previous Cesarean History: New Data From the Birth Certificate, 2013 NVSR Vol. 64 No. 4, May 2015
Association Between Diagnosed ADHD and Selected Characteristics Among Children Aged 4–17 Years: United States, 2011–2013 NCHS Data Brief No. 201, May 2015
Dental Caries and Tooth Loss in Adults in the United States, 2011–2012 NCHS Data Brief No. 197, May 2015
When Are Babies Born: Morning, Noon, or Night? Birth Certificate Data for 2013 NCHS Data Brief No. 200, May 2015
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National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
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National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
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Longitudinal Studies of Aging (LSOA)
State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS)
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International Statistics Program
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QuickStat of the WEEK
During 2003–2013, non-Hispanic black and Hispanic persons were more likely than non-Hispanic white persons to report fair or poor health. Fair or poor health status ranged between 14%–15% for non-Hispanic black persons and 13%–14% for Hispanic persons, and was 8% for non-Hispanic white persons, with no significant changes during the decade in the percentage of those reporting fair or poor health within each of the three groups.
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