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Tools

  • Alabama State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Arkansas State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Illinois State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Kentucky State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Louisiana State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Mississippi State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Missouri State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Tennessee State Health Facts
    The latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
  • KIDS COUNT Regional / Rural Collaboratives
    Links to research projects addressing the unique economic challenges faced by rural families.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Alabama Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compiled 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Health, United States, 2008: Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan Data
    Links to tables from the 2008 Health, United States chartbook, providing health statistics for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
  • Hospital Compare
    Provides consumers with information on how well hospitals care for patients with heart attacks, heart failure, or pneumonia.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Illinois Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Kentucky Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Louisiana Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compiled 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Mississippi Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Missouri Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • State Health Workforce Profiles
    Detailed state-by-state data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health personnel.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • Tennessee Health Workforce: Highlights from the Health Workforce Profile
    Highlights compile 2000 data on levels of employment, projected growth and key environmental factors that affect demand for health care. Details for medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, mental health and aides.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
  • RAC Maps
    Provides national maps on a variety of rural health and human services topics. Maps can be customized to focus on a specified state or county and to show additional labels, boundaries and data, for use in grant applications, reports and other publications.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Alabama QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Maps Information Guide
    Resources, information and frequently asked questions addressing maps and mapping issues related to rural areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • Statistics and Data Information Guide
    Resources and tools for finding statistics and data related to rural America.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
  • USA Counties
    Features county-level data. Demographic, economic, and governmental data are presented for the purpose of multi-county comparisons or single county profiles.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • FASTATS: Overweight
    Basic statistics on the rates of overweight and obesity, with links to more detailed data.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
  • Fast Stats State Data
    Provides data and statistics on a variety of health topics by state.
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Statistics
  • IllinoisAtlas.com
    Creates and makes available online computer generated maps on various social, economic, educational, and demographic topics. All maps are focused on Illinois and its counties.
  • KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides child well-being data by state and county.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Alabama KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Arkansas KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Illinois KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Kentucky KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Mississippi KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Missouri KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Tennessee KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
    Provides data on child well-being for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • Arkansas QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Social Climate of Tobacco Control
    Monitors changes in social norms and practices related to tobacco control in Mississippi.
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center
  • GIS Applications Laboratory, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Provides detailed maps and data of Arkansas and its counties for a variety of indicators.
  • Oral Health Maps
    Interactive mapping tool that presents indicators of oral health and preventive interventions for oral health. Availability of data varies by state.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS)
    Helps public health programs monitor oral disease, use of the oral health care delivery system, and the status of community water fluoridation on both a state and national level.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Poverty in America: One Nation Pulling Apart
    A research project designed to provide new understanding of the manifestation, meaning, and causes of enduring economic distress.
  • Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE)
    A project of the U.S. Census Bureau that provides model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for counties and states by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and income. Website provides links to maps, data sets, and interactive tables.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Cancer Health Disparities
    Cancer statistics for African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations. Includes information on NCI research activities related to cancer health disparities.
    Sponsoring organization: National Cancer Institute
  • America's Health Rankings
    Provides data and recommendations related to health risk behaviors and outcomes. Includes state-by-state snapshots.
  • Disability Counts
    Contains rural data for each U.S. county. Data topics include people with disabilities, Centers for Independent Living (CILs), metro & non-metro county maps, urban and urbanized area maps, congressional district maps, and disability statistics resources.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Montana Rural Institute
  • List of Rural Counties and Designated Eligible Census Tracts in Metropolitan Counties
    A list of rural counties identified by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that are not part of a designated metropolitan area and a list of sub-county sections of metropolitan counties that through the Goldsmith Modification classification would be also be designated as rural.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Illinois QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Kentucky QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Louisiana QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to parish-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Mississippi QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Missouri QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • Tennessee QuickFacts
    Basic demographic and economic statistics for the state, with links to county-level data.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Census Bureau
  • NN/LM Greater Midwest Region: Illinois Resources
    Overview of the state, with links to state agencies, health associations, and other resources for Illinois.
    Sponsoring organization: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Greater Midwest Region
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Alabama
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Arkansas
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Illinois
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Kentucky
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Louisiana
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Mississippi
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Missouri
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • ERS State Fact Sheet: Tennessee
    Lists statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for the state.
    Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
  • Vital Information for a Healthy Arkansas
    The Arkansas Center for Health Statistics is the location for health-related data collection, data management, analysis, statistics, research, consultation, training, publication and computer use.
  • Kentucky KIDS COUNT
    State and county data on the well-being of Kentucky children.
    Sponsoring organization: Kentucky Youth Advocates
  • Southern Region Information Toolkit
    Provides a wide variety of economic, demographic and social indicators that can be used by organizations and agencies at the local, state and regional levels.
    Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center

Publications

  • 2004 Report on Illinois Poverty: An Analysis of Rural Poverty
    Overview of the status of the rural poor in Illinois. Includes statistics on population, employment, income, and housing by county.
    Author(s): Illinois Poverty Summit
    Date: 01 / 2009
    Format: PDF
  • 2007 CMS Statistics
    Summary information about health expenditures and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs. Includes data on populations served by Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare providers, and expenditures.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    Date: 2007
    Format: PDF
  • 50-Year Decline in the Child Population in Rural Areas
    Discusses changes in child population in rural versus urban areas, using the updated OMB definitions for metropolitan, micropolitan and rural areas.
    Author(s): Kelvin Pollard, Mark Mather
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
    Date: 07 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Rural South
    A Fact Sheet regarding statistics and data on AIDS in the rural south.
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Alabama Chartbook of Regional Disparities in Mortality
    Addresses the increasing interest in health disparities and rural regions in Alabama.
    Sponsoring organization: Alabama Department of Public Health
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Alabama Rural Health Report: Selected Indicators of Rural Health Status in Alabama
    Presents information on several of the major factors which are related to rural health care in Alabama.
    Sponsoring organization: Alabama Rural Health Association
    Journal citation: Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Date: 03 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Alabama State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Alabama's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Arkansas State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Arkansas' health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Arkansas Year 2000 Statewide Oral Health Needs Assessment Survey: Findings and Conclusions
    Results of a statewide needs assessment survey on children's oral health in Arkansas.
    Author(s): L.D. Mouden
    Date: 05 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Black Belt Fact Book
    Presents important Alabama information on such subjects as population, vital statistics, crime, mental health, health care practitioners, health care facilities, education, income, poverty, and housing for Alabama's Black Belt counties.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Alabama Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • The Changing Delta: 1990-2000
    Updates and describes changes in the socio-economic status of the Mississippi Delta between the 1990 and 2000 Censuses. Includes tables, graphs, and maps.
    Author(s): T.M. Kersen
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center
    Date: 07 / 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Characteristics and Roles of Rural Health Clinics in the United States: A Chartbook
    Offers an updated, comprehensive picture of the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) program and the operations of RHCs. Covers characteristics of RHCs, staffing and recruitment, location, and more.
    Author(s): John A. Gale, Andrew F. Coburn
    Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 01 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Chartbook of Major Indicators: Conditions Placing Children in the South at Risk
    Chartbook of statistics on economic, health and education for children in the South.
    Sponsoring organization: Southern Institute on Children and Families
    Date: 08 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Child Poverty in Rural America
    Overview of the status of rural children, with child poverty data for the nation and each state. Discusses reasons for high levels of child poverty and what can be done to address the problem. Includes examples of counties in Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Montana and Texas with high child poverty rates.
    Author(s): William P. O'Hare, Kenneth M. Johnson
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
    Journal citation: PRB Reports on America Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Date: 03 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Children's Oral Health in Mississippi: Addressing a Silent Epidemic
    Provides background on the most common dental problems children face and current efforts in Mississippi to improve oral health. Includes maps of Mississippi counties indicating the location of pediatric dentists and dentists who accept Medicaid.
    Author(s): L.H. Southward, N.G. Mosca, S.L. Silberman, N.P. Eklund, D.K. Curtis, C. Lane
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 11 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • City and Rural KIDS COUNT Data Book
    The City and Rural KIDS COUNT Data Book uses 10 key measures of child well-being to track the conditions of children living in the rural (non-metropolitan) portion of each state as well as 71 large cities across the country.
    Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Diabetes in America
    An assessment of epidemiologic, public health, and clinical data on diabetes and its complications in the United States.
    Sponsoring organization: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
    Date: 1995
    Format: PDF
  • Economic Base Assessment of Sumter County, Alabama
    Provides a detailed economic assessment of Sumter County, including data on population, poverty levels, and types of industry.
    Date: 08 / 2001
    Format: PDF
  • Expected Health and Economic Impacts of a One Dollar Increase in the Mississippi Cigarette Tax
    Fact sheet detailing expected health and economic outcomes of an increase in the cigarette tax in Mississippi.
    Author(s): R. McMillen
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 01 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Rural America
    Overview of population and other statistics for rural versus urban areas in the United States.
    Author(s): Allison Tarmann
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
    Date: 01 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Financial Indicators for Critical Access Hospitals
    Discusses the development of a set of financial indicators for the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) program. Includes discussion of the potential usefulness of different types of indicators. Also provides indicator medians for CAHs for 1998-2003.
    Author(s): George H. Pink, G. Mark Holmes, Cameron D'Alpe, Lindsay A. Strunk, Patrick McGee, Rebecca Slifkin
    Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Heart Disease Mortality (2000-2002)
    Compares rural Alabama areas to urban Alabama areas, the state as a whole, and the U.S. on heart disease mortality.
    Sponsoring organization: Alabama Rural Health Association
    Date: 07 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS Among Women
    Provides data about the impact of HIV and AIDS among women, including young women and minority women.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Date: 11 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS Among Youth
    Provides data on the impact of HIV and AIDS among young people.
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report
    Contains information about U.S. AIDS and HIV case reports, including data by state, metropolitan statistical area, mode of exposure to HIV, sex, race/ethnicity, age group, vital status, and case definition category.
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Illinois State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Illinois' health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Kentucky State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Kentucky's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Key Facts: Latinos and HIV/AIDS
    Comprehensive data on the impact of HIV/AIDS epidemic on Latinos in the United States. Includes an overview and epidemic profile, as well as data on major trends, access to and use of health services, and perceptions of HIV/AIDS.
    Author(s): Sonia Ruiz, Jennifer Kates, Claire Oseran Pontius
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 07 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity & Medical Care
    Chartbook on racial/ethnic disparities in health, health insurance coverage, and health care access and quality. Includes data and literature review.
    Author(s): Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Osula Evadne Rushing, Sonia Ruiz
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 06 / 2003
    Format: HTML
  • Leading Causes of Death Among Children in Mississippi
    Presents the leading causes of death for children under age 18 in Mississippi. Data are broken down by age category, and comparisons are made between the Mississippi, its surrounding states, and the United States as a whole. The report also includes a discussion of prevention strategies to reduce the number of child deaths.
    Author(s): R. Cossman
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 02 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Louisiana State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Louisiana's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Medicare Chart Book, Third Edition
    More than 80 charts and tables with data on the Medicare program and Medicare beneficiaries. Includes rural-specific and state-specific data for selected topics.
    Author(s): Juliette Cubanski, Molly Voris, Michelle Kitchman, Tricia Neuman
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Medicare Data Compendium, 2003
    Historic, current, and projected data on Medicare enrollment and Medicaid recipients, expenditures, and utilization. Includes key statistics about CMS programs and health care spending.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
    Format: HTML
  • Mental Health, United States, 2002
    Describes the current development of mental health statistics in 21 chapters organized in five sections: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Supporting Good Decision Making, Population Dynamics, Insurance for Mental Health Care, Status of Mental Health Services, and National Mental Health Statistics.
    Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America: Appendix A Description of Method and Supporting Tables Tables Ordered by Chapter
    Appendix of a report that gives an overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Minorities in Rural America: Appendix B Map Supplement
    Appendix to report on overview of demographic and economic statistics pertaining to rural minority populations. Maps.
    Author(s): Janice C. Probst, Michael E. Samuels, Kristen P. Jespersen, Karin Willert, R. Suzanne Swann, Joshua A. McDuffie
    Sponsoring organization: South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
    Date: 2002
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi Health Assessment, 2004
    A state-level report card based on the Leading Health Indicators from Healthy People 2010. Includes information regarding health status, utilization of health services, health beliefs, satisfaction with health care services, and health care reimbursements.
    Author(s): R. McMillen, N. White, D. Gill, W. Frese
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 02 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Mississippi's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi State of the Heart Report: 2000
    Summary of cardiovascular disease in Mississippi, including data by race and county.
    Author(s): A.D. Penman, D. Johnson
    Date: 03 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi Stroke Report: 2000
    Statistics on stroke incidence and mortality by race, gender, and county of residence.
    Author(s): A.D. Penman, D. Johnson
    Date: 08 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi Vital Statistics: 2003
    Provides vital statistics for the state and counties in one report.
    Date: 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi's Physician Labor Force: Current Status and Future Concerns
    Results of a 2002 survey of Mississippi physicians that describes their basic demographics, comparing Mississippi physicians to physicians nationally. Provides policy recommendations based on survey results.
    Author(s): J.S. Cossman
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 10 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Mississippi's Uninsured
    Fact sheet describing the medically uninsured population in Mississippi.
    Author(s): H. Costello
    Sponsoring organization: Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Date: 04 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Missouri State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Missouri's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Monitoring the Health Care Safety Net, Book II: A Data Book for States and Counties
    Detailed statistics on the health care safety net. Includes county-level data for each state on the demand and financial support for the safety net, as well as information on the structure of the safety net and the community context as it relates to a need for safety net services.
    Author(s): John Billings, Robin M. Weinick
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 08 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States
    This statistical sourcebook provides key facts about obesity, showing how prevalent obesity has become and examining the factors that contribute to the patterns of unhealthy eating and insufficient physical activity that are at the heart of this epidemic.
    Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • National Healthcare Quality Report, 2004
    Measures the state of health care quality and summarizes changes in health care quality in the Nation. This is the second annual National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR). Data in the 2004 report provide insight into opportunities for improvement in care.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 12 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • National Healthcare Quality Report, 2005
    A comprehensive national overview of the quality of health care in the United States. Includes measures of effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. Compares trends in health care quality over the past three years.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 12 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • National Healthcare Quality Report, 2006
    A comprehensive national overview of the quality of health care in the United States. Includes measures of effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 12 / 2006
    Format: PDF
  • Number of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) per State
    Data by state listing the total number of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for each state, and the number of CAHs in each state with a Psychiatric DPUs (Distinct Part Units) and with Rehabilitation DPUs.
    Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
    Date: 08 / 2007
    Format: Excel
  • Older Americans 2004: Key Indicators of Well Being
    Describes the overall status of the U.S. population age 65 and over. Covers 37 key indicators to portray aspects of the lives of older Americans and their families. It is divided into five subject areas: population, economics, health status, health risks and behaviors, and health care. Provides Federal statistics from over a dozen national data sources to monitor several important areas in the lives of older Americans.
    Sponsoring organization: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Oral Health in Arkansas
    Provides an overview of the state of oral health in Arkansas.
    Author(s): M.M. Phillips. L.D. Mouden, R. Sledge
    Date: 06 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Oral Health: Dental Disease is a Chronic Problem Among Low-Income Populations
    Analyzes dental health and data from four national health surveys.
    Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
    Date: 04 / 2000
    Format: PDF
  • Putting Rural Services on the Map
    Discusses the benefits of maps, particularly visual data, and mapping technology. Includes information on RUPRI/CARES, GIS, and map projects that other states are undertaking.
    Author(s): Thomas D. Rowley
    Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
    Journal citation: Rural Monitor Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Date: 09 / 2004
    Format: HTML
  • Rural KIDS COUNT Pocket Guide: Measures of Child Well-Being in the Nation's Rural Areas
    Statistics on rural children addressing poverty, family structure, parental employment, housing affordability, and education. Includes data for the rural portion of each state and some information on state rankings for each topic.
    Sponsoring organization: KIDS COUNT
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • The Rural South: Listening to Families in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee
    Describes results of 12 focus groups of low-income rural families in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. Topics addressed include economic opportunity, educational opportunity, transportation, out-of-school activities, child care, medical services, and more.
    Author(s): Linda Tilly, Apreill Curtis Hartsfield, Lisa Parrish, Debra Miller, Valerie Salley, Linda O'Neal, Pam Brown, Edwina Chappell
    Sponsoring organization: Kentucky Youth Advocates
    Date: 02 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Scope of Services Offered by Critical Access Hospitals: Results of the 2004 National CAH Survey
    Examines how Critical Access Hospital (CAH) services have changed over time, based on 2000, 2002 and 2004 survey data. Discusses the role of network affiliations in service changes and reasons for reported service expansions.
    Author(s): David Hartley, Stephenie Loux
    Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
    Date: 03 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • State Profiles - Louisiana: Reforming the Health Care System
    Detailed profile of the state's health care system. Covers demographics, expenditures and financing, health status, utilization and quality of services, health care providers, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance coverage, and key trends.
    Sponsoring organization: AARP Public Policy Institute
    Date: 12 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • State Profiles - Mississippi: Reforming the Health Care System
    Detailed profile of the state's health care system. Covers demographics, expenditures and financing, health status, utilization and quality of services, health care providers, Medicare, Medicaid, health insurance coverage, and key trends.
    Sponsoring organization: AARP Public Policy Institute
    Date: 12 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Stats for Scaredy-Cats: A How-To Guide for Rural Data Users
    Discusses basic statistical techniques for use in writing grant proposals, analyzing reports, and evaluating programs.
    Sponsoring organization: Center for Rural Pennsylvania
    Date: 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 1999
    Presents statistics on selected health measures for children under 18 years of age.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Date: 07 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Tennessee State Health Workforce Profile - Full Report
    In-depth report on Tennessee's health workforce. Includes data on population, health status, health services employment, and employment by professions.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Trends in National and Regional Economic Distress: 1960-2000
    Assesses national and regional socioeconomic conditions directly prior to agencies such as ARC, and then examines how various regions in the U.S. have fared since that time.
    Author(s): Lawrence E. Wood
    Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
    Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • U.S. Counties by Rural-Urban Continuum Codes in 2003
    Lists rural-urban continuum codes assigned by the USDA's Economic Research Service to indicate the degree of rurality in each county. Ordered by state and then county. Includes county population in 2000.
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
    Date: 2004
    Format: PDF
  • The Uninsured in America, 2004: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized under Age 65
    Provides data on the uninsured under age 65 and identifies groups at risk of lacking health insurance. Includes statistics and data.
    Author(s): Jeffrey Rhoades
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 06 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Uninsured in Rural America
    Fact sheet with statistics on health insurance coverage in rural areas and information on barriers to health care access in rural areas.
    Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
    Date: 04 / 2003
    Format: PDF
  • Update on the Demography of Rural Disability, Part One: Rural and Urban
    Discusses the definitions of rural and disability. Includes statistics on rural and urban people with disabilities.
    Sponsoring organization: Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities
    Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Update on the Demography of Rural Disability, Part Two: Non-Metropolitan and Metropolitan
    Discusses metropolitan and non-metropolitan county definitions and provides references, statistics, and documents on people with disabilities.
    Sponsoring organization: Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities
    Date: 04 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Women's Health Care in the United States: Selected Findings from the 2004 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Fact Sheet
    Examines: (1) Disparities in care among women by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. (2) Disparities in health care for women compared with men. and (3) Trends and state variation in women's health care over time.
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 05 / 2005
    Format: HTML
  • Women's Health Care Utilization and Expenditures
    Examines women's use of and expenditures for medical care in the United States. Includes statistics and data.
    Author(s): Amy Taylor, Sharon Larson, Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo
    Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Date: 06 / 2005
    Format: PDF
  • Young Children and the Rural Information Gap
    Results of a study of a number of national data sets to determine the extent to which child well-being indicators can be determined for rural children. Includes suggestions for next steps to promote analysis and dissemination of child well-being indicators for rural young children.
    Author(s): J. Capizzano, A. Fiorillo
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives
    Date: 12 / 2004
    Format: PDF
  • Youth Indicators 2005: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth
    Focuses on American youth and young adults between the ages of 14 to 24 years old. Addresses family, schooling, work, community, and health. Includes statistics and data.
    Author(s): Mary Ann Fox, Brooke A. Connolly, Thomas D. Snyder
    Sponsoring organization: National Center for Education Statistics
    Date: 07 / 2005
    Format: HTML

Journals

  • Insights on Southern Poverty
    Quarterly newsletter. Summarizes current research on issues salient to poverty in the South in a nontechnical format.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research
  • Journal of Rural Health
    Offers research of projects to improve rural health, statistics, and mathematical models. Provides summaries of recently published rural health research. Provides links to author, subject and abstract indexes.
    Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
  • MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
    Health statistics reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • PRB Reports on America
    Interpretations of important and controversial domestic population issues
    Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
  • State Health Notes
    Biweekly publication designed to deliver health information to state legislators and legislative staff.
    Sponsoring organization: National Conference of State Legislatures

Organizations

  • Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems
    Addresses the spatial and temporal dimensions of issues impacting rural America, by incorporating Internet-based geographic information systems, remote sensing technologies, and other data visualization and analytic tools. One of CARES's primary roles is to support the needs of others wishing to utilize geographic information technologies. Part of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI).
  • Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
    Fosters coordination, collaboration, and integration of collection and reporting of Federal data on child and family issues and conditions.
  • Health Resources and Services Administration
    Works to improve and expand access to quality health care for all. Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
    Provides information and analysis on health care coverage and access for the low-income population, with a special focus on Medicaid's role and coverage of the uninsured.
  • Kaiser Family Foundation
    An independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. Acts as a source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.
  • KIDS COUNT
    A project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
  • Mississippi Health Policy Research Center
    Conducts research on the most critical health policy issues confronting the state of Mississippi.
  • Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center
    Conducts research on issues facing Mississippians.
  • National Association of Health Data Organizations
    The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) is a not-for-profit national membership organization dedicated to improving health care through the collection, analysis, dissemination, public availability, and use of health data.
  • National Center for Health Statistics
    The United States' principal health statistics agency. Compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve health. Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations
    The National Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RGIS) assists state, tribal, regional and local governments, and non- and for-profit organizations in implementing advanced geospatial information technologies.
  • National Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Data Analysis Resource Center
    Helps EMSC grantees and state EMS offices develop their own capabilities to collect, analyze, and utilize EMS and other healthcare data to improve the quality of care in state EMS and trauma systems.
  • Office of Population Affairs
    The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) advises the HHS Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including adolescent pregnancy, family planning, and sterilization, as well as other population issues. The OPA also provides policy and administrative direction for Title X Family Planning Program and the Title XX Adolescent Family Life Program.
  • Southern Institute on Children and Families
    Works to improve opportunities for children and families in the South, with a focus on disadvantaged children.
  • State Health Access Data Assistance Center
    Helps states monitor rates of health insurance coverage and understand factors associated with uninsurance. Provides policy analysis and technical assistance to states that are conducting their own health insurance surveys and/or using data from national surveys.
  • Trust for America's Health
    Works to protect the health of every community and to make disease prevention a national priority.
  • U.S. Census Bureau
    The U.S. Census Bureau provides statistics, data, surveys and other programs on the population, economics, education, foreign trade, housing, construction, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and more of the United States.