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Health, United States, 2008

Health, United States, 2008 presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics.

The report includes a chartbook and trend tables that may be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat. Trend tables are also available as downloadable spreadsheet files for data manipulation or graphical analysis. Data trends may be more complete in spreadsheet files than in pdf files.

The Preface describes changes and additions to the current report. Major findings are presented in the Highlights. Appendices include Data Sources and Definitions and Methods. The Index is a topical index with cross references to such topics as child and adolescent health, elderly population, nutrition related, specific race and ethnic groups, State data, and women's health.

Current and previous editions are available through the National Center for Health Statistics web site, starting with Health, United States, 1975. Tarver library has a print version of the current Health, United States, 2008 in our collection.