Fw: Free Online Resource For Health Care Data In All Fifty States

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The Kaiser Family Foundation today launched a new Internet

resource that offers comprehensive and current health

information for all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S.

territories. State Health Facts Online, at

www.statehealthfacts.kff.org, offers health policy information

on a broad range of issues such as managed care, health

insurance coverage and the uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare,

women's health, minority health, and HIV/AIDS.

This free resource - intended for journalists, state and federal

policymakers, researchers, and other interested parties -- allows

users to easily view information for a single state or compare

and rank data across all 50 states and compare it to U.S. totals.

Information on more than 200 topics is displayed in

easy-to-read tables and color-coded maps, and can be downloaded

for customized comparisons.

Click on the links below to find answers to questions such as:

- Which three states have the highest percentage of uninsured

residents?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/uninsured/

- Which three states have the highest percentage of the

population in Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/HMOs/

- How many states give people the right to appeal a health

insurance plan's denial of benefits to an independent medical

expert?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/externalreview/

- Which states have the highest rate of infant deaths?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/infantdeaths/

- Which states have the highest total Medicaid spending per

person?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/medicaidspending/

- Which three states spend the most on health care as a

percentage of their gross state product?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/healthspending/

- Which states have the largest number of people living with

AIDS?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/aids/

- How many states have programs that make prescription drugs

more affordable for the elderly?

http://statehealthfacts.kff.org/drugassistance/

The state-by-state data available on the site cover a wide

variety of health policy topics including health insurance

coverage and characteristics of the uninsured, minority health -

including breakdowns of data by racial/ethnic group, enrollment

and spending for Medicare, Medicaid and the S-CHIP program,

population demographics, and health status measures.

State Health Facts Online can be accessed at

www.statehealthfacts.kff.org or through the Foundation's

primary website at www.kff.org, where users can access all of

the Foundation's reports and analyses on health issues.

We hope you find this new Web site useful in your work.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation