The City Health Dashboard, an online resource offering interactive insights into clinical data and social determinants of health, now covers 500 cities across the United States. The publicly available tool, developed by the Department of Population Health at NYU School of Medicine with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in partnership with NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of […]
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Health Care Access and Utilization among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Persons in the United States
In 2014, NCHS conducted the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander National Health Interview Survey (NHPI NHIS). The NHPI NHIS was a survey in which about 3,000 households containing one or more NHPI residents were surveyed by NHIS field staff using the 2014 NHIS instrument. The NHPI NHIS was an unprecedented opportunity to collect rich and […]
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents: Population Estimate and Prevalence of Health Behaviors
This article utilizes the National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys to estimate the number of American high school students who had have sexual contact with only the same sex and those that have had sexual contact with both sexes to help identity the number of LGB youth and their behavioral health outcomes. Population of focus: Lesbian, Gay, […]
Language Diversity and English Proficiency in the United States
While a record 64.7 million people ages 5 and older in the United States spoke a language other than English at home in 2015, a growing share of them are also fully proficient in English. Sixty percent of those speaking a foreign language at home were fully proficient in English in 2015, up from 56 […]
Health of the States: How U.S. States Compare in Health Status and the Factors that Shape Health
The Health of the States (HOTS) project is a detailed analysis of state rankings on 39 health outcomes, and correlations between those health outcomes and 123 determinants of health spanning five domains: health care, health behaviors, social and economic factors, the physical and social environment, and public policies and spending. The project was conducted by […]
Sexual Orientation and Estimates of Adult Substance Use and Mental Health
A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for the first time uses data from SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) focuses on patterns of substance use and mental illness among adults (aged 18 and older) of different sexual orientations. Overall, the report finds that adults who […]