Sources of tables, graphs, and on-line documents

Some files may be in Adobe Acrobat Format. Acrobat is a very graphics intensive file-reading program. Most computers which can run Netscape can also run Acrobat--you can get a free copy from the Data and Software Server or Adobe. It is also installed on all Public Area Computers.

This list is split into threee parts:
Data concerning Health Care, Hospitals, Health Insurance, and Health-related costs Existing and Proposed Legislation Concerning Health Care Data concerning causes of death, incidence of diseases, etc.

Data concerning Health Care, Hospitals, Health Insurance, and Health-related costs

• Health Statistics of the Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR) http://www1.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
  Includes graphs on Use of Health Services and Health Care expenditures as a percent of GNP.
• NCHS Press Releases and Data Sheets
  Publications and data publishied by the NCHS in 1994, 1995, and 1996 http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/94facts.htm, http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/95facts.htm, http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/96facts.htm
  All reports are in Acrobat format. Topics Include "Health Insurance and Cancer Screening Among Women, August 3, 1994", "Monitoring Health Care in America, September 1995", "Office Visits for Glaucoma: United States, March 30, 1995", "Injury-Related Visits to Hospital Emergency Departments: United States, February 1, 1995", and "Monitoring Health Care in America, June 1996"
• US Census Bureau: Health Insurance Statistics http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html
  Many tables which show who is uninsured by race, gender, income level, age, region, and hispanic origin. Some data is in Acrobat format, and there is no data from before 1987.
• US Census Bureau: Press Releases on Health Insurance http://www.census.gov/pub/Press-Release/www/health.html
  What the Census Bureau has reported on such topics as: "Health Insurance Coverage, 1992-1993", "Health Insurance Less Likely For New Workers", "Effect of Health Insurance on Doctor & Hospital Visits", "Health Insurance Coverage Worsening", "Periods of Poverty Likely to Cause Lack of Insurance", "Americans Spend $625 Billion on Health Services", "25% of Americans Had a Lapse in Health Insurance", and "Half with Severe Disability Have Private Health Insurance"
• Preliminary and Final United States Per Capita Costs of Medicare, from the Health Care Financing Administration http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/45notice.txtl
  This is a text document with several coverletters at the top. It you scroll past these letters, you'll find tables of enrollment projections for aged and disabled reciepients of Medicare, hospital, nursing home, and home health care admissions and reimbursement projections, Physician reimbursement costs, and processing costs. All figures are given in total and per capita terms, and for all years between 1991 and 1998.
• Medicare Deductible, Coinsurance and Premium Amounts, 1996, from the Health Care Financing Administration http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/mdedco96.htm
  Figures for Hospital Insurance and Medical Insurance
• Medicare spending on hospital stays, by state and by Diagnosis Related Group (DRG), from the Health Care Financing Administration http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/medpar.htm
  Tables on spending for in patient hospital stays in 1994, by State and by Diagnosis group. Figures include total charges, covered charges, Medicare reimbursement, total days, number of discharges and average total days.
• National Health Care Expenditures, 1960-1994, from the Health Care Financing Administration http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/nhce96.htm
  Tables and graphs on spending for health care in the U.S. by type of service delivered (hospital care, physician services, nursing home care, etc.) and source of funding for those services (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-pocket spending, etc.). Tables are available in Text, Acrobat, and IBM-Excel Files.
• Health Care expenditures by employers, from the Bureau of Labor Statstics ftp://stats.bls.gov/pub/news.release/hce.txt
  A lengthy report from the BLS, with a table of expenditures for health care in private industry and state and local governments in 1992.
• Pages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
  Data on current average earnings is found at the bottom of each occupational listing
  Information about the labor market for Medical Assistants and Nurses' Aids can be found at http://stats.bls.gov/oco/oco1006.htm
  Information about the labor market for Doctors and Dentists can be found at http://stats.bls.gov/oco/oco1002a.htm
  Information about the labor market for Nurses and Physicians Assistants can be fount at http://stats.bls.gov/oco/oco1002b.htm
• New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program Rates http://www.naic.org/nj/IHCRATES.HTM
  What it costs to be insured for a month in New Jersey
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau -- Fact Sheets http://www.os.dhhs.gov:80/hrsa/mchb/factshee.htm
  Some data about maternal and child health in paragraph form. Full descriptions the publications produced by many of the programs. Topics include Adolescent Health, School Health, Early Intervention for Children with Special Health Care Needs, Health and Safety in Child Care, Healthy Start, Hemophilia and Aids Services, Injury and Violence Prevention, and Perinatal and Women's Health.

   

Existing and Proposed Legislation Concerning Health Care

• Health Policy Bills of the 104th Congress. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/L?d104:./list/d104tp.lst:399[399-415](Health_policy)
  Some have been enacted into law, others are still in committee.
• The Congressional Record http://thomas.loc.gov/i103/i103index1.html
  This is the Computerized Index of the Congressional Record. Search Here for "health security act, to find the text of the health reform bills of 1994, or for any other bill. You can also search under the general topic "health". Everything read into the Congressional Record is here. Every Resolution, every Ammendment, every Remark made in the House and Senate, every Press Release, every Commitee Report, every Debate.

Data concerning causes of death, incidence of diseases, etc.

• Health Statistics of the Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR) http://www1.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html
  Includes Graphs of age at first childbirth, incidence of hypertension and whooping cough, and the number of adults who are overweight from the 1960s to the present.
• NCHS Press Releases and Data Sheets
  Publications and data published by the NCHS in 1994, 1995, and 1996 http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/94facts.htm, http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/95facts.htm, http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/96facts.htm
  All reports are in Acrobat format. Topics Include "Overweight Teens Increase to 21 Percent, November 10, 1994", "Health Insurance and Cancer Screening Among Women, August 3, 1994", "Blood Lead Levels in the U.S. Population, July 26, 1994", "U.S. Infant and General Mortality: Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities, July 9, 1995", "Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Other Unhealthy Behaviors Among Our Nation's Youth: United States, April 24, 1995", etc.
• Health Data for Researchers from the New York State Department of Health http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/research/research.htm
  Thousands of text and Acrobat tables. Topics are divided into the categories AIDS Statistics, Ambulatory Surgery Statistics, Cancer Statistics, Communicable Disease Statistics, Heart Disease Statistics, Hospital Discharge Statistics, Injury Facts for New York State, Information for State Health Policy, Public Health Data Set, Vital Statistics
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance report from the Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/hiv_aids/statisti/hasrlink.htm
  The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report contains tabular and graphic 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. Published semi-annually, and available in both Acrobat and ASCII (text only) formats.
• Mortality Tables for 72 causes of death from the NCHS http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/statab.htm
  Detailed mortality tables prepared by the Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, include data on age, race, sex, cause-of-death, life expectancy, and infant mortality. Some of the tables present national-level data, others feature State-level data. Several tables have more than one year of data. A detailed description is provided for each table. All files are in Acrobat format.