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Section 3. Health and Nutrition

Report Number Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)

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Section 3. Health and Nutrition

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This section presents statistics on health expenditures and insurance coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid, medical personnel, hospitals, nursing homes and other care facilities, injuries, diseases, disability status, nutritional intake of the population, and food consumption.

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Food Consumption And Nutrition

202 - Households and Persons Having Problems with Access to Food: 2000 to 2005

203 - Per Capita Consumption of Selected Beverages by Type: 1980 to 2005

204 - Nutrition-Nutrients in Foods Available for Civilian Consumption Per Capita Per Day: 1970 to 2004

205 - Per Capita Consumption Of Major Food Commodities: 1980 to 2005

206 - Per Capita Utilization Of Commercially-Produced Fruits and Vegetables: 1980 to 2005

Health Care Resources

151 - Annual Receipts/Revenue for Health Care Industries: 2000 to 2005

152 - Receipts for Selected Health Service Industries by Source of Revenue: 2000 and 2005

153 - Employment In The Health Service Industries: 1990 to 2006

154 - Active Physicians - 2005 and Nurses - 2004, by State

155 - Physicians by Sex and Specialty: 1980 to 2005

163 - Hospitals--Summary Characteristics: 1980 to 2005

164 - Average Cost To Community Hospitals Per Patient: 1980 to 2005

165 - Community Hospitals--States: 2000 and 2005

183 - Nursing Homes--Selected Characteristics: 2004

194 - Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities and Clients: 1995 to 2006

Health Care Utilization

131 - Prescription Drug Use in the Past Month by Sex, Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1998-1994 and 1999-2002

156 - Percent Distribution of Number of Visits to Health Care Professionals, by Selected Characteristics: 2000 and 2005

157 - Ambulatory Care Visits To Physicians' Offices and Hospital Outpatient and Emergency Departments: 2005

158 - Visits To Office-Based Physicians and Hospital Outpatient Departments by Diagnosis: 2000 and 2005

159 - Visits To Hospital Emergency Departments by Diagnosis: 2005

160 - Procedures For Inpatients Discharged From Short-Stay Hospitals: 1990 to 2005

161 - Selected Cosmetic Procedures: 2000 to 2006

162 - Organ Transplants And Grafts: 1990 to 2006

166 - Hospital Use Rates by Type of Hospital: 1980 to 2005

167 - Hospital Utilization Rates by Sex: 1990 to 2005

168 - Hospital Utilization Measures For HIV Patients: 1990 to 2005

169 - Hospital Discharges and Days of Care: 2002 and 2005

170 - Hospital Discharges And Days of Care by Sex: 2005

182 - Persons 65 Years Old and Over With Limitation of Activity Caused by Chronic Conditions: 2000 to 2005

191 - Use Of Mammography For Women 40 Years Old and Over by Patient Characteristics: 1990 to 2005

Health Conditions, Diseases

171 - Cancer--Estimated New Cases, 2007, and Survival Rates, 1987-1989 to 1996-2003

172 - Cancer--Estimated New Cases and Deaths by State: 2007

173 - Selected Notifiable Diseases--Cases Reported: 1980 to 2005

174 - AIDS, Syphilis, and Tuberculosis Cases Reported by State: 2005

175 - Reported AIDS Cases for Adults and Adolescents, by Transmission Category and Sex: Cumulative Through 2005

176 - Estimated Number of Persons Living With Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) by Year and Selected Characteristics: 2000 to 2005

177 - Children Immunized Against Specified Diseases: 1995 to 2005

178 - Learning Disability or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for Children 3 to 17 Years of Age, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

179 - Asthma Incidence Among Children Under 18 Years of Age, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

180 - Number of Persons With a Disability by Age Group and by State: 2005

181 - Persons With Limitation of Activity Caused by Chronic Conditions: 2000 to 2005

184 - Injury and Poisoning Episodes and Conditions by Age and Sex: 2005

185- Injuries Associated With Consumer Products: 2005

186 - Costs Of Unintentional Injuries: 2005

187 - Persons 18 Years and Over With Selected Diseases and Conditions, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

188 - Persons 18 Years of Age and Over with Selected Circulatory Diseases, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

189 - Selected Respiratory Diseases Among Persons 18 Years of Age and Over, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

190 - Persons 18 Years of Age and Over with Migraines and Pains in the Neck, Lower Back, Face or Jaw, by Selected Characteristics: 2005

Health Expenditures

122 - National Health Expenditures--Summary, 1960 to 2005, and Projections, 2006 to 2016

123 - National Health Expenditures by Type: 1990 to 2005

124 - National Health Expenditures by Object, 1990 to 2005, and Projections, 2006

125 - Health Services And Supplies--Per Capita Consumer Expenditures by Object: 1990 to 2005

126 - Public Expenditures For Health Services And Supplies: 2005

127 - Personal Health Care--Third Party Payments And Private Consumer Expenditures, 1990 to 2005, and Projections, 2006

128 - Personal Health Care Expenditures by Object and Source of Payment: 2005

129 - Hospital Care, Physician and Clinical Services, Nursing Home Care, and Prescription Drug Expenditures by Source of Payment: 1990 to 2005

130 - Retail Prescription Drug Sales: 1995 to 2006

132 - Consumer Price Indexes of Medical Care Prices: 1980 to 2006

133 - Average Annual Expenditures Per Consumer Unit For Health Care: 1990 to 2005

Health Insurance

144 - Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs): 1990 to 2006

145 - Persons Enrolled in Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) by State: 2000 and 2006

146 - Health Insurance Coverage Status By Selected Characteristics: 2004 and 2005

147 - Persons With and Without Health Insurance Coverage By State: 2005

148 - People Without Health Insurance for the Entire Year by Selected Characteristics: 2004 and 2005

149 - Percent of Workers Participating in Health Care Benefit Programs and Percent of Participants Required to Contribute: 2006

150 - Medical Care Benefits of Workers by Type and Amount of Employee Contribution: 2006

Health Risk Factors

192 - Current Cigarette Smoking: 1990 to 2005

193 - Current Cigarette Smoking by Sex and State: 2005

195 - Drug Use by Type of Drug and Age Group: 2002 and 2005

196 - Estimated Use of Selected Drugs by State: 2004-2005

197 - Cumulative Percent Distribution Of Population by Height And Sex: 2003-2004

198 - Cumulative Percent Distribution of Population by Weight and Sex: 2003-2004

199 - Age-adjusted Percent Distributions of Body Mass Index (BMI) Among Persons 18 Years Old and Over, by Selected Characteristics: 2003-2004

200 - Percentage Of Adults Engaging In Leisure-Time, Transportation-Related and Household-Related Physical Activity: 2005

201 - High School Students Engaged in Physical Activity by Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 2005

Medicare, Medicaid

134 - Medicare Benefits by Type of Provider: 1990 to 2006

135 - Medicare--Enrollment by State and Other Areas: 2000 to 2005

136 - Medicare Enrollees: 1980 to 2006

137 - Medicare Disbursements by Type of Beneficiary: 1990 to 2006

138 - Medicare Trust Funds: 1990 to 2006

139 - Medicaid--Selected Characteristics Of Persons Covered: 2005

140 - Medicaid--Beneficiaries and Payments: 2000 to 2004

141 - Medicaid--Summary by State: 2000 and 2004

142 - State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)--Enrollment and Expenditures by State: 2000 and 2006

143 - Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment By State And Other Areas: 1995 to 2006

Last Revised: July 14, 2015

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