Health Data Interactive

Health Data Interactive presents tables with national health statistics for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and patterns.

Table Topics:

• Health and functional status
• Health care use and expenditures
• Health conditions
• Health insurance and access
• Mortality and life expectancy
• Pregnancy and birth
• Risk factors and disease prevention

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Time frame: (as of June 2010) Most data is listed through 2008

Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hdi.htm

Health Data Interactive (HDI) uses sophisticated online software with many advanced features for manipulating the available public use, pre-tabulated data. HDI presents public health data in many tables organized into topic folders: Health and functional status; Health care use and expenditures; Health conditions; Health insurance and access; Mortality and life expectancy; Pregnancy and birth; Risk factors and disease prevention

You may browse through the folders to locate tables of interest. Clicking on the folder name will show the folder contents, a list of tables, in the right panel of HDI. Clicking on a table name will open that table. You may also use the search box to enter a key word that may be associated with one or more of the HDI tables. The search results will list any tables with your search term. The right side of the screen will contain the folder for each table. You may click on the table name to open the table, or click on the folder name to see a list of that folder's contents.

Data use to create Health Data Interactive tables come from several sources (listed below). Each table contains brief technical notes and the descriptions include links to further information on the data systems. Unless noted, all data systems are from the National Center for Health Statistics.

• Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
• National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
• National Health Care Survey (NHCS)
• National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
• National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS)
• National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)
• National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
• National Nursing Home Survey (NNHS)
• National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
• National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), Mortality
• NCHS Mortality Web site.
• National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), Natality
• Population estimates