The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF) has launched Health Care for Me, their new online resource center, packed with tools and materials to help educate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) communities about the health reform law and how they can get covered. Health Care for Me equips […]
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KIDS COUNT 2013 Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
The KIDS COUNT Data Book features the latest data on child well-being for every state, the District of Columbia and the nation. This information is available in the newly redesigned KIDS COUNT Data Center, which also contains the most recent national, state and local data on hundreds of measures of child well-being. Data Center users […]
Behavioral Health United States 2012
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) publication, Behavioral Health, United States, 2012 provides in-depth information regarding the current status of the mental health and substance abuse field. It includes behavioral health statistics at the national and State levels from 40 different data sources. The report includes three analytic chapters: Behavioral Health Disorders […]
Results from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings
This report presents results pertaining to mental health from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States aged 12 years old or older. This report presents national estimates of the prevalence of past year mental disorders and past year mental health […]
Behavioral Health & the Affordable Care Act for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to increase access to care for millions of individuals in this country, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. This webinar is the fifth in a series of outreach efforts conducted by the US Dept of HHS, SAMHSA, the National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, […]
Free iPad App, “Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” by National Library of Medicine
To give those who can’t travel to Bethesda, Maryland to see it in person a lively virtual experience, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces a new, free iPad app that captures the contents of its popular exhibition, Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness, currently on display. NLM is the world’s largest […]