Name: Health, United States, 2018: Annual report, year-round resource
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DR GINDI: Thank you everyone for joining us via Skype and via phone.

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It is my pleasure to be here today to talk with you about Health United States 2018,

the annual report and year round resource.

Just to give you a quick idea of what we will be talking about today,

I will briefly go over the Health United States report,

sections of the report in case you are not familiar with it.

Although there are many topics covered in Health U.S.,

I will be looking just at some themes from the report today.

We will be exploring just a couple of themes today

but just so you know there are many subjects available in the report.

I will also be going over how Health U.S. can be a resource for you throughout the year

and we will be looking at a suite of products that you can use for your own research on

and finally, after a question and answer session where you can ask us some questions,

I will be turning to provide feedback about how you use the health United States

A quick overview of the National Center for Health Statistics, we are one of the 13 federal

We are the nations critical health statistics agency.

Our mission as part of our role as a health statistical agency is to provide accurate,

to help identify and address health issues.

As a statistical agency, we often are not able to answer the why questions,

but we are an authoritative source of what is happening.

Our reports and publications have to be objective and statistically valid.

We have many report types you might be familiar with

data briefs, which are shorter report that often are looking at a single question and

as long as longer series reports which are filled with analytic and mythological detail.

Health United States is the flagship report of the National Center for Health Statistics.

NCHS has several different data collection programs that you may be familiar with and

each of these are featured at one point or another in the Health United States program

The National Vital Statistics System is a source for all things birth and death statistics

and we will see it featured from this particular data collection system in Health U.S. in a

The National Health Interview Survey is a large on-going in-person household based survey

that collects information on health behaviors, health conditions and healthcare utilization.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, also called NHANES,

is a nationwide nationally representative objective measurement survey

focusing on the ability to collect measurements such as blood pressure, cholesterol,

and one of the premier sources on nutrition information in the country.

The National Health Care Survey is actually a whole family of surveys, of establishment

that look at utilization among hospitals, ambulatory care centers, physician offices,

The National Survey of Family Growth is a nationally representative survey that focuses

on the health behaviors that are key to family coordination and growth.

In addition to the major data collection programs,

NCHS fulfills its mission by connecting additional targeted surveys

as well as through its data linkage program where selected surveys are linked to other

such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services.

Health United States has a report mandate.

We are mandated to report from the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President

and we have been published by the National Center for Health Statistics 1975.

The legislative mandate tells us to have a report that covers for major subject areas.

Health status and determinants, Healthcare utilization,

healthcare resources and healthcare expenditures.

We have one overarching large report goal which is to educate the public and policy

with three major ways that we try to achieve that goal.

The first is really in bringing together health information from multiple data sources,

thinking about all those different NCHS data collection systems that I just showed you.

Certainly, each of these are featured in the Health United States report.

We also bring together health information from other CDC sources,

other sources from outside of health and human services

Another key focus of Health United States is the focus on trends over time.

It is not enough to bring you the latest content,

the latest health content that can help in your research or your understanding of policies,

how are these health indicators changing during the years.

Finally, another key feature of the Health United States report is that this report

examines health disparities between important population subgroups.

We have a long history in Health United States in being able

to be a useful report in understanding differences

not only by race and origin but also across income groups,

Thinking specifically about the Health United States 2018 annual report,

we have not just the omnibus large big book you might be familiar with if you are a consistent

The first main section is the chart book on the health of Americans

This chart book this year features 20 figures along with analytic texts.

Most of these figures deal with data between 2007 and 2017.

Obviously in cases where the data are collected as recently as 2007,

we will start at a more recent year. We do go through 2017.

I wanted to acknowledge that these data in some cases can be older.

thinking about the very large collection of data collection systems that we are working

each of these data collect and system the public use files and estimates become available

We do have to make a cut off point as we pull the data together for publication.

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