TABLE OF CONTENTS: LINKS TO WWW PAGES

Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Cultures
Cultural Competence
Demographic Data
Environmental Health
Epidemiologic Data
Funding Resources / Grantsmanship
Government Agencies
Health Care Delivery Data
Health Disparities
Health Education
Infectious Diseases
Leadership
Legislative-Related World Wide Web Sites
Migrant Farm Workers
Periodicals - Annual
Periodicals - Journals with Epidemiologic Data
Periodicals - Other
Publications - Articles
Publications - Books
Publications - Reports
Publications - Other, Including World Wide Web Sites
Rural Data
Rural Health Agencies and Associations
Rural Health Practice Trends
Rural Health Programs
Rural - Other - Publications and Web Sites

ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

HerbMed
http://www.herbmed.org/

Provides hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health; an evidence-based information resource for professionals, researchers, and general public; a project of the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://nccam.nih.gov/

Native Health Databases - University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
http://hsc.unm.edu/library/nhd/index.cfm

Native American Health Care Series
http://learn.sdstate.edu/share/

Native American, traditional healing among
http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/traditionalhealing.html

Peoples Pharmacy
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/

Prevalence of use of complementary and alternative medicine (Center for Studying Health Systems Change, December 2004)
http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/722/

WebMDHealth, Living Better: Alternative Medicine
http://my.webmd.com/living_better/alt

CULTURES

African Americans and South Carolina: History, Politics & Culture
http://www.usca.edu/aasc/

African American History, South Carolina
http://www.scafricanamericanhistory.com/

African Americans in South Carolina: Resource Links
http://sciway.net/afam/

Links to the history and culture of African Americans in South Carolina; also links to information about notable black South Carolinians, historically black schools and colleges, black organizations, Gullah, and African-American festivals

Catawba Indians of South Carolina
http://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/catawba.html

Ghost Stories of Beaufort County
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/ghosts.htm

Gullah Language & Sea Island Culture
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/gullah.htm

Gullah-Sea Island Culture Bibliography
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/gullahbib.htm

Marshes of the Lowcountry
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/marshes.htm

Rural culture: Place Matters: Challenges & Opportunities in Four Rural Americas (pp. 17-19) (Carsey Institute, 2008)
http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_PlaceMatters.pdf

Spanish Moss: Its Nature, History, and Uses
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/spanish.htm

Sweetgrass Baskets
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/sweetgra.htm

Tabby
http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/tabby.htm

CULTURAL COMPETENCE

Cultural beliefs, medical/related issues pertinent to health care of recent immigrants
http://www.ethnomed.org

Cultural Competence Standards
http://www.omhrc.gov/clas/ds.htm

Cultural Competency (MUSC College of Medicine, 2003)
http://etl2.library.musc.edu/cultural/

Developing Cultural Competence, A Model
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/rctsh/ccmodel.htm

DiversityRX
http://www.DiversityRx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm

Food Guide Pyramids - Ethnic/Cultural - Oldways
http://www.oldwayspt.org/pyramids.html

National Center for Cultural Competence
http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/

Providers Guide to Quality and Culture
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English

Providing Culturally Sensitive Health Care (St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Program)
http://offices.colgate.edu/alana-cultural-center/communityservice/utica/default.htm

The Provision of Culturally Competent Care (A. V. Blue, 2003)
http://www.musc.edu/fm_ruralclerkship/culture.html

DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

Census Bureau, Home Page
http://www.census.gov/

Census data - South Carolina
http://www.ors.state.sc.us/

Census Bureau - USA Counties (County data on multiple topics)
http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml

Child and Family Statistics, Federal Interagency Forum
http://childstats.gov/

Counties by Metropolitan Area Status 2003 (Population Reference Bureau, Rural Families Data Center)
http://www.prb.org/rfdcenter/USACountiesMetroStatus2003.pdf

CLIKS: Community-Level Information on Kids
http://www.aecf.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi?

County-level data provided in Excel files under the "Raw Data" section

County level demographic data: Snap Shots of State Population Data (CDC)
http://emergency.cdc.gov/snaps/

County Typology Codes (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/TypologyCodes/

Current Population Survey
http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm

Demographic indicators by region (Carsey Institute, Univ New Hampshire)
http://regionalindicators.unh.edu/

Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Kids Count - South Carolina
http://www.sckidscount.org/

Kids Count - Rural Kids Count Report (2004) - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.odl.state.ok.us/Kids/factbook/ruralkidscount2004/index.html

Kids Count - United States - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/

Population Profile of the United States
http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile.html

Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/poverty.shtml

Rural: Choosing Rural Definitions (RUPRI, March 2007)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/RuralDefinitionsBrief.pdf

Rural: Defining the "Rural" in Rural America (Amber Waves, June 2008)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June08/Features/RuralAmerica.htm

Rural: Demographic Trends in Rural & Small Town America (Carsey Institute, 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_Demographics.pdf

Rural, What is?
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/what_is_rural.htm

South Carolina Community Assessment Network - SCDHEC
http://scangis.dhec.sc.gov/scan/

Population data with demographic characteristics

South Carolina County Maps
http://sciway.net/maps/cnty/

South Carolina demographic data
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

South Carolina Economic Data
http://www.sces.org/lmi/data/edata.asp

South Carolina Office of Research & Statistics
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

South Carolina Progress Reports - Income
http://sciway.net/scprogress/

South Carolina Statistics
http://sciway.net/statistics/

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book: 2006 (Census Bureau, 2006)
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/smadb/smadb-06.pdf

Statistical Abstract - South Carolina
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/abstract/index.asp

Statistical Abstract - United States
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Statistical Resources on the Web - Menu of Sites by University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/statsfr.html

Unemployment rates - county-level data
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/Unemployment/

Urban and Rural Definitions and Data
http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/ur-def.html

Welfare Information Network - TANF, WIN
http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/win/

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Advocacy Organizations for Environmental Health (List by EnvRN)
http://envirn.umaryland.edu/resources/Advocacy%20Organizations

Agencies (Government) Environmental Health
http://envirn.umaryland.edu/resources/Agencies.htmlCoastal%20Conservation%20League%20Special

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Environmental Health
http://www.cdc.gov/Environmental/

Diseases - Waterborne infectious diseases (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/list_waterborne.htm

EnviRN: A Virtual Resource for Environmental Health and Nursing (Univ of MD School of Nursing)
http://envirn.umaryland.edu/

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/

E-Team,The National Center for Policy Analysis
http://eteam.ncpa.org/

Factory Farm Pollution in the United States
http://www.factoryfarmmap.org/

Human Health & the Environment in South Carolina (Coastal Conservation League)
http://coastalconservationleague.org/Page.aspx?pid=707

National Association of Clean Water Agencies
http://www.nacwa.org/index.php

National Environmental Trust
http://www.net.org/

Physicians for Social Responsibility, About Environment & Health
http://www.psr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=enviro_about

Price of Pollution: Cost Estimate of Environmentally-Related Childhood Disease In Minnesota (June 2006)
http://www.environmentalobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=88337

Regulations, Environmental
http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/index.html

Report: The Environmental Connection to Public Health Protection (South Carolina Coastal Conservation League)
http://coastalconservationleague.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=706&srcid=707

Report: Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America's Industries and Companies to Our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods (Political Economy Research Institute, April 2009)
http://www.peri.umass.edu/justice

SaveOurEnvironment.org - A National Coalition for the Environment
http://saveourenvironment.org/

Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
http://www.scorecard.org/

Sierra Club, Legislative Tracker
http://www.sierraclub.org/legislativetracker/index.asp

Sierra Club, Safe & Healthy Communities
http://www.sierraclub.org/healthycommunities/

Waterkeepers Alliance
http://www.waterkeeper.org/maincampaign.aspx

White House: President's Policy on Energy & Environment
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/

EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA

Accidents, traffic - Motor Vehicle-Related Mortality--United States, 1999-2005 (MMWR, Feb 2009)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5807a1.htm?s_cid=mm5807a1_e

Accidents, traffic - South Carolina (SC Department of Public Safety)
http://www.scdps.org/ohs/stat_services.asp

Accidents, traffic - United States (National Highway Traffice Safety Administration)
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/

Asthma Data - American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/data/

Asthma Data & Surveillance (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/asthmadata.htm

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (national data)
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System--South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System--2006 results (Sep 08)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5707.pdf

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System--physically active adults, 2007 (Demcember 2008)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/mm5748a1.htm

Birth data - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/births.htm

Cancer data, annual surveillance report - Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer
http://seer.cancer.gov/report_to_nation/

Cancer data (American Cancer Society)
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp

Cancer data (National Institute of Cancer)
http://seer.cancer.gov/

Cancer data, incidence & mortality by state & type (CDC National Program of Cancer Registries)
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/

Cancer data, incidence rates by state (National Institute of Cancer)
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/incidencerates/incidencerates.html

Cancer data, mortality rates by state (National Institute of Cancer)
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/deathrates/deathrates.html

Cancer data, trends 1975-2005 (JNCI, 2008; 100(23):1672-1694)
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/djn389?ijkey=7gzxMw78EFM11MN&keytype=ref

Cancer data - South Carolina Cancer Facts & Figures (county data) (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/co/phsis/biostatistics/SCCCR/Reports.htm

Cancer data - South Carolina by county - Combined set of impact of chronic disease fact sheets for South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

Cancer data - South Carolina - Disparities (JSCMA, August 2006)
http://www.sccanceralliance.org/UserFiles/JSCMA_aug06_full1.pdf

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Data and Statistics (Menu)
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm

CDC WONDER Database
http://wonder.cdc.gov/

Child Abuse and Neglect (USDHHS)
http://www.childwelfare.gov/can/index.cfm

Child Abuse and Neglect Research and Statistics, Adminstration for Children & Families, USDHHS
http://www.childwelfare.gov/

Child Abuse and Neglect: State & national data (Child Welfare League of America, National Data Analysis System)
http://ndas.cwla.org/data_stats/data_trends.asp

Child health: America's Children in Brief: Key Indicators of Well-Being
http://www.childstats.gov/index.asp

Child health: Health & well-being of children: A portrait of states and the nation 2005 (USDHHS)
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/thechild/state.htm

Child health, rural: Health well-being of children in rural area: A portrait of the nation 2005 (USDHHS)
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/

Child health: National Survey of Children’s Health
http://www.nschdata.org/

Childbearing, teen - Trends in teen childbearing 1960-2006 (Hewlett Foundation, July 2008)
http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2008_07_30_FactsAtAGlance.pdf

Chronic disease data - economic data - An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease (Milken Institute, 2007)
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail=38801018&cat=ResRep

Chronic Disease Indicators
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/cdi/

Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, National Center for
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/

Community Health Status Indicators (state & county) (USDHHS)
http://www.communityhealth.hhs.gov/homepage.aspx?j=1

DataWarehouse - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm

Diabetes Data - incidence & prevalence; nation & state (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/index.htm

Diabetes data - incidence, adults, state-specific: 1995-07 vs. 2005-07
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/mm5743a2.htm

Diabetes data - mortality by state (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs/lcwk9_10.htm

Diabetes Data - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/diabetes.htm

Diabetes data - National Diabetes Surveillance System (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/index.htm

Diabetes Data - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/populations/index.htm

Diabetes data - South Carolina Surveillance Data
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDTSTRS/statePage.aspx?state=South%20Carolina

Diabetes data - South Carolina by county- Combined set of impact of chronic disease fact sheets for South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

Diabetes - Economic costs in 2007 (ASA, 2008)
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/misc/econcosts.pdf

Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool (FERRET)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ferret/ferret.htm

Global Health Facts (Kaiser Family Foundation)
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/bytopic.jsp

Health behaviors/conditions, selected - (MMWR 56[No. SS-4], May 11, 2007)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5604.pdf

By state, metropolitan area, and county; includes South Carolina

Pregnancy & birth, health conditions/risk factors, health status & disability, health care access & use, mortality

Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/healthywomen.htm

Heart disease - incidence & prevalence (NHLBI, 2006)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/docs/06_ip_chtbk.pdf

Heart disease - morbidity & mortality (NHLBI, 2007)
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/resources/docs/cht-book.htm

Heart disease - mortality by state - (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs/lcwk9_10.htm

Heart disease - South Carolina by county - Combined set of impact of chronic disease fact sheets for South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

HIV/AIDS - Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm

HIV/AIDS - Basic Statistics (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats.htm

HIV/AIDS - Subpopulation estimates 2006 (MMWR, Sep 12, 2008)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5736a1.htm

HIV/AIDS - Surveillance reports (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/index.htm

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database - U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivaidsd.html

HIV/AIDS Surveillance: South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.net/health/disease/stdhiv/surveillance.htm

HIV/AIDS - state national data on numerous HIV/AIDS related variables - Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/

Homelessness - Annual Homeless Assessment Report ot Congress (2007)
http://www.huduser.org/Publications/pdf/ahar.pdf

Homelessness - Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2005 (US Conference of Mayors, December 2005)
http://www.usmayors.org/uscm/hungersurvey/2005/HH2005FINAL.pdf

Hypertension - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/hyprtens.htm

Hypertension, prevalence - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, AHRQ, December 2004
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st59/stat59.pdf

Hypertension - South Carolina by county - Combined set of impact of chronic disease fact sheets for South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

Immunization - National Immunization Survey (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/data/

Immunization - South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/immunization/survey.htm

Infectious diseases - Global Health Reporting - Kaiser Foundation
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/

Infectious diseases - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/docs/Annual_Report_on_Reportable_Conditions.pdf

Influenza and pneumonia data - American Lung Association (2007)
http://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/TREND_PNEUMONIA07.PDF

Injuries -State-Specific Unintentional Injury Deaths--1999-2004
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5643a4.htm?

Injuries, children - Fatal Injuries Among Children by Race and Ethnicity--United States, 1999-2002
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5605a1.htm?s_cid=ss5605a1_e

Injuries Illnesses, Fatalities (Occupational) - U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/iif/

Kidney disease: African Americans and Kidney Disease Fact Sheet
http://www.nkdep.nih.gov/news/campaign/african_americans.htm

Kidney disease - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/kidbladd.htm

Kidney disease: End stage renal disease - U.S. Renal Data System
http://www.usrds.org/

Kidney disease: Prevalence, 1999-2004
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5608a2.htm?

Kidney disease: Statistics - National Kidney & Urologic Disease Information Clearinghouse
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/

Kidney disease: Statistics - Chronic Kidney Disease in South Carolina (SCDHEC, 2006)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/kidney/FACTckd.pdf

Kidney disease: Statistics, South Carolina (local, regional, state)
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

Data file queries available for the Inpatient Hospital Discharge Reports and Emergency Room Visit Reports

Kidney disease: Statistics - WrongDiagnosis.com
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/k/kidney_disease/stats.htm

Maternal Child Health Data - State Narratives
https://performance.hrsa.gov/mchb/mchreports/States_Narratives/states_Narrative.asp

Mortality - 10 Leading Causes of Death, 2005: All 50 States, Listed by Age-Adjusted Death Rates
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/state_mortality_rank_05.htm

Mortality - Compressed Mortality File: Underlying Cause of Death (CDC)
http://wonder.cdc.gov/mortSQL.html

HIV Disease ICD-10 Group 113-016; Obesity: E66

Mortality Data From the National Viatal Statistics System (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm

Mortality Tables - NCHS
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs.htm

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm

National Center for Health Statistics: Health Data for All Ages
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm

National Center for Health Statistics: Trends in Health & Aging
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/agingact.htm

National Center for Health Statistics - Surveys & Data Collections Systems
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey - Data Tables
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/datatblelink.htm

National Health Interview Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm

Obesity data - adult/child - trends in mean weight, height & bmi, 1960-2002 (Advance Data No. 347, 2004)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf

Obesity data - adult (2005-06) - Obesity Among Adults in the United States--No Change Since 2003-2004 (NCHS Data Brief No. 1) (November 2007)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db01.pdf

Obesity data - adult - State-Specific Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults --- United States, 2005 (MMWR, Sep 15, 2006)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5536a1.htm?

Obesity data - Fact sheets by Surgeon General, USDHHS
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/obesity/

Obesity data, adult - State-Specific Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults--United States, 2007 (MMWR, 57(28);765-768 (July 18, 2008)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/mm5728a1.htm

Obesity data, adult - Obesity/overweight trend 1976-2002 (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/obese/obse99.htm

Obesity data, adult - South Carolina data since 2002 (BRFSS at SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/brfss_index.htm

Obesity data, adult - Trends in Adult Obesity, 1987-2001 (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2004)
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/PrintProducts/PrintProd_Detail.asp?ID=601

Obesity data, childhood - Overweight Among U.S. Children and Adolescents (NHANES, 2002)
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/childhood/prevalence.htm

Obesity data, childhood - Overweight and Physical Activity Among Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation 2005 (USDHHS, 2005)
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/overweight/sitemap.htm

Obesity data, childhood - Overweight and Physical Inactivity Among Rural Children Aged 10-17: A National and State Portrait (SCRHRC, May 2007)
http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/report_by_topic.html

Obesity data, childhood: Prevalence (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/childhood/prevalence.htm

Obesity data, childhood - Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (State data, Table 1)
http://www.cdc.gov/pednss/

Obesity data, childhood - Prevelance 1999-2006 (Youth Risk Behavior Survey)
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/pdf/trends/2005_YRBS_Overweight.pdf

Obesity data, childhood - Role of the Media in Childhood Obesity (Kaiser Family foundation, 2004)
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/7030.cfm

Obesity data - childhood - state data (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/overweight/facts.htm

Obesity data - childhood - state data: Overweight and Physical Activity Among Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation, 2005 (National Survey of Children’s Health)
http://nschdata.org/content/ChartbooksPubsAndPresentations.aspx

Obesity data - childhood - state data trends: Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System annual summary reports
http://www.cdc.gov/pednss/publications/index.htm

Obesity data - childhood - state data trends: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm

Obesity data, elderly (Native American vs. US) (2005)
http://www.med.und.nodak.edu/depts/rural/pdf/fs_obesity.pdf

Obesity data - economic impact data (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/economic_consequences.htm

Obesity data - economic impact data (Milken Institute, 2007)
http://www.chronicdiseaseimpact.com/ebcd.taf

Obesity data - hospitalization data - Obese patients in US hospitals (AHRQ, 2006)
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb20.jsp

Obesity - South Carolina - Moving SC Toward a Healthy Weight (SCDHEC, 2005)
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/chcdp/obesity/plan.htm

Prevalence in Section 1. Burden and Overview of the Problem

Overweight - South Carolina by county - Combined set of impact of chronic disease fact sheets for South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

Osteoporosis: Bone Health & Osteoporosis: A Report of the Surgeon General (2004)
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/bonehealth/content.html

Pneumonia & influenza data - American Lung Association (2007)
http://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/TREND_PNEUMONIA07.PDF

Pregnancy rates, teenage - Alan Guttmacher Institute (Feb 2004)
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/state_pregnancy_trends.pdf

Pregnancy rates, teenage - Teen Births: Examining the Recent Increase (Child Trends, March 2009)
http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends_2009_03_13_FS_TeenBirthRate.pdf

Pregnancy rates, teenage - Vital & Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24, December 2004
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_024.pdf

Pregnancy, birth, and risk behaviors, teenage (National Campaign to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy)
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/default.asp

Prevention Guidelines System - Statistics in Publications
http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/cdcRecommends/AdvSearchV.asp

Reproductive Behavior (Statistics by Topic) - The Alan Guttmacher Institute
http://www.agi-usa.org/sections/pubs.html

Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, Teenagers in the U.S. 2002 (CDC, 2004)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_024.pdf

Sexual Health Statistics for Teenagers and Young Adults in the United States (Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2006)
http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/3040.cfm

SCAN - South Carolina Community Assessment Network (SCDHEC)
http://scangis.dhec.sc.gov/scan/

South Carolina public health data sets: Births, cancer incidence, deaths, fetal deaths, infant & child health, infant mortality, mother's health & lifestyle, population, pregnancy, pregnancy risk

State and county level reports. State-level reports: Asthma, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, diabetes, maternal-child health, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance, Youth Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance. County-level reports: Asthma, chronic disease, diabetes, leading causes of death (mortality rates).

Numerous reports on South Carolina vital statistics and disease rates.

Health Status menu includes data about births and prenatal care, deaths and infant mortality, childhood and adult immunizations, smoking, overweight and obesity rates, mental health, diseases such as heart disease, cancer, strokes, and STDs. Data and information related to HIV/AIDS can be found in the HIV/AIDS category.

STD Surveillance - United States (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/std/stats/

STD Surveillance & Statistics (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/Stats_Trends/Stats_and_Trends.htm

STD Surveillance & Statistics - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.net/hs/diseasecont/stdwk/html/surveillance.htm

Statistical Agencies, Homepages for the Federal (Menu)
http://members.aol.com/copafs/fedlinks.htm

Stroke data - Prevalence of Stroke--United States, 2005 (MMWR 56(19); May 2007
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5619a2.htm?

Stroke data - Statistical reports (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/stroke/statistical_reports.htm

Substance abuse: Cigarette Use Among High School Students--US, 1991-2007 (June 2008)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/mm5725a3.htm

Substance abuse: Cigarette Smoking Among Adults--United States, 2007 (November 2008)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr//preview/mmwrhtml/mm5745a2.htm

Substance abuse, Cigarette taxes by state, 1995-2009 (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5819a2.htm?s_cid=mm5819a2_e

Substance abuse, Cigarette Use: State-Specific Prevalence & Trends in Cigarette Smoking Among Adults...US, 1998-2007 (MMWR, March 2009)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5809a1.htm?s_cid=mm5809a1_e

Substance abuse, Cigarette Use: State-Specific Smoking Attributable Mortality & Years of Life Lost (MMWR, January 2009)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5802a2.htm?s_cid=mm5802a2_e

Substance abuse: Monitoring the Future Survey (NIDA/University of Michigan)
http://www.drugabuse.gov/DrugPages/MTF.html

Substance abuse: Substance abuse in rural and small town America (Carsey Institute, 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/SubstanceAbuse_FinalPDF.pdf

Suicide - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

Suicide - youth - MMWR 53(22, June 21, 2004
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5322.pdf

Tuberculosis Data - American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/data/

Tuberculosis Data for South Carolina - SCDHEC
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/tb/index.htm

Tuberculosis Surveillance Reports - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.net/hs/diseasecont/tb/html/index.htm

Tuberculosis Surveillance Reports - United States
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/surv/surv.htm

Tuberculosis--Trends in Tuberculosis--United States, 2008 (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5810a2.htm?s_cid=mm5810a2_e#fig1

WHO Statistical Information System
http://www.who.int/whosis/

Women's Health Statistics
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/data/women.htm

Women's Health Report Card (National Women's Law Center, Oct 2007)
http://hrc.nwlc.org/

World Health Statistics
http://www.who.int/whosis/en/

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (National Center for Disease Prevention & Health Promotion, CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States
Youth Risk Behavior Trends
Leading Causes of Mortality & Morbidity & Contributing Behaviors by State

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance--United States, 2005 (MMWR report, June 6, 2006)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5505.pdf

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System--South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/state_reports.htm

FUNDING RESOURCES / GRANTSMANSHIP

Foundation Center - your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web
http://www.foundationcenter.org/

Grantwriting Shortcourse
http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Bureau of Primary Health Care Programs
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/bphc/INDEX_1.HTM

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
http://www.cdc.gov/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?

County officials in South Carolina - SC Association of Counties
http://www.sccounties.org/counties/counties.htm

Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

Department of Health and Human Services - Map of regions (2009)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/HHS_Regions_Map.pdf

Division of Tuberculosis Elimination,
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrtion
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/

Maternal Child Health Bureau
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov/

SCAN - South Carolina Community Assessment Network (SCDHEC)
http://scangis.dhec.sc.gov/scan/

South Carolina public health data sets: Births, cancer incidence, deaths, fetal deaths, infant & child health, infant mortality, mother's health & lifestyle, population, pregnancy, pregnancy risk

SCDHEC - Acute Disease Epidemiology
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/acute/links.htm

SC Reportable Diseases by County, 1995-2003

SCDHEC - Bureau of Disease Control
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/index.htm

SC Annual Report on Reportable Diseases (latest available)
List of reportable conditions (current year)
EPI NOTES - Disease Prevention & Epidemiology Newsletter

SCDHEC - Division of Media Relations (News Releases)
http://www.scdhec.net/news/

SCDHEC: Epidemiological Data & Reports
http://www.scdhec.net/hs/epidata/county_reports.htm

State and county level reports. State-level reports: Asthma, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, diabetes, maternal-child health, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance, Youth Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance. County-level reports: Asthma, chronic disease, diabetes, leading causes of death (mortality rates).

SCDHEC - Obesity Prevention & Control
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/chcdp/obesity/plan.htm

SCDHEC - Public Health Nursing
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/proservices/nursing/index.htm

SCDHEC: South Carolina Public Health Statistics and Information Services
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/

SCDHSS - South Carolina Department of Social Services
http://www.state.sc.us/dss/index.html

SC Government
http://myscgov.com/

SC Office of Research & Statistics, Health & Demographics Section
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

State and Local Government on the Net
http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm

Temporary Assistance to Needy Families - TANF
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ofa/

U.S. Department of Transportation Highway Safety Home Page
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

World Health Organization
http://www.who.org/

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY DATA

Center for Studying Health Systems Change (Tracking Data)
http://www.hschange.org/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Research, Statistics, Data, and Systems
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp

Cost - US Health Care Costs (Kaiser Family Foundaiton, 2008)
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358

Cost-Benefit - Prevention for a Healthier America: Investments in Disease Prevention.... (Trust for America's Health, July 2008)
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/prevention08/

Cost-Benefit - The Dollars and Sense of Prevention: A Primer for Health Policy Makers (Center for Studying Health System Change, June 2009)
http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/1066/?id_conf=26

Expenditures 2003 (MEPS)
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/papers/st103/stat103.pdf

Expenditures, chronic disease - An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease (Milken Institute, 2007)
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/chronic_disease_report.pdf

Expenditures, chronic disease - An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease Web site
http://www.chronicdiseaseimpact.com/ebcd.taf

Expenditures - comparison of U.S. spening to other countries: Congressional Research Service Report to Congress (September 17, 2007)
http://www.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34175%5F20070917.pdf

Expenditures - Diabetes - Economic costs in 2007 (ASA, 2008)
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/misc/econcosts.pdf

Expenditures - distribution of US health care costs 2006 (KFF, Jan 08)
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358

Expenditures - distribution, by state, of general fund (KFF)
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Demographics+and+the+Economy&subcategory=State+Budgets&topic=Distribution+of+General+Fund+Spending

Expenditures - Factors Fueling Rising Health Care Costs 2006 (Price Waterhouse Cooper) (2006)
http://www.ahip.org/redirect/PwCCostOfHC2006.pdf

Expenditures - Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending (CBO, Feb 08)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8972/02-15-GeogHealth.pdf

Expenditures - Health Care Costs A Primer: Key Information on Health Care Costs & Their Impact (Kaiser Family Foundation, August 2007)
http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7670.pdf

Expenditures - Medicaid expenditures - federal
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Medicaid+%26+SCHIP&subcategory=State+Medicaid+Spending&topic=State+Medicaid+Spending%2c+SFY2003=State+Medicaid+Spending%2c+SFY2003

Expenditures - Medicaid expenditures - state
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Medicaid+%26+SCHIP&subcategory=State+Medicaid+Spending&topic=State+Medicaid+Spending%2c+SFY2003=State+Medicaid+Spending%2c+SFY2003

Expenditures - Medicare vs. other payers (MEDPAC, June 2007)
http://www.medpac.gov/documents/Jun07DataBook_Entire_report.pdf

DataBook_Entire_report.pdfExpenditures - Out-of-pocket 2003 (MEPS)
http://meps.ahrq.gov/papers/st121/stat121.pdf

Expenditures - public health spending, by state (Trust for America's Health, 2009)
http://www.rwjf.org/publichealth/product.jsp?id=39789

Expenditures - Total state-funded health care expenditures, by state
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgetsry=State+Budgets=Total+State+Health+Care+Spending

Expenditures - United States vs. other countries (KFF, January 2007)
http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm

H-CUPnet - Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (AHRQ)
http://hcup.ahrq.gov/HCUPnet.asp

State, regional & national hospitalization data base; Data on hospital utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes

Health insurance coverage, Children: No Shelter From the Storm: America's Uninsured Children (Campaign for Children's Health Care, September 2006)
http://www.childrenshealthcampaign.org/tools/reports/no-shelter-from-the-storm.html

Health insurance coverage: Cover the Uninsured Week (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
http://covertheuninsured.org/

Health Insurance Coverage - Rural America (Kaiser Foundation)
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/4093.cfm

Health Insturance Coverage - state reform initiatives - State of the States 2007 (Academy Health, 2007)
http://statecoverage.net/pdf/StateofStates2007.pdf

Health Insurance Coverage - women (Commonweatlh Fund, 2007)
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=478513

Health Insurance Coverage - Youth & young adults (Pediatrics Vol. 119 No. 5 May 2007, pp. e1033-e1039 (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-1730)
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/119/5/e1033

Health Insurance Data - Current Population Survey, U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins.html

Health insurance data - One in Three: Non-Elerly Americans Without Health Insurance 2002-2003 (Families USA, June 2004)
http://www.familiesusa.org/

Health Insurance Data - South Carolina
http://covertheuninsuredsc.org

Health Insurance Data - trends by race/ethnicity, 2001-2003, Center for Health System Change (October 2004)
http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/713/

Hospitalizations - National Hospital Discharge Survey - reports (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/listpubs.htm

Hospitalizations - National Hospital Discharge Survey - tables (NCHS)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhdstab.htm

Hospitalizations - Nationwide Inpatient Sample (HCup,AHRQ)
http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/HCUPnet.jsp?Id=9415D3C2547E44A5&Form=SelDXPR&JS=Y=%3E%3ENext%3E%3E&_DXPR=PreRunPCCDCCHospitalizations

Hospitalizations - Preventable (HCUP Fact Book No. 5, 2004)
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Costs+%26+Budgets&subcategory=State+Budgets&topic=Total+State+Health+Care+Spending

Medicaid Chartbook 2004, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/charts/medicaid/InfoMedicaid_schip.pdf

Medicaid/SCHIP, Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/index.cfm

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/

Medicare Advantage Tutorial (Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2007)
http://www.kaiseredu.org/tutorials/medicareadvantage/player.html

Medicare Chart Book 2005 (Kaiser Family Foundation)
http://www.kff.org/medicare/7284.cfm

National Hospital Discharge Survey and Survey of Ambulatory Surgery Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/listpubs.htm

Prenatal Care Statistics - National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/prenatal.htm

Preventable Hospitalizations: A Window Into Primary and Preventive Care, 2000 (AHRQ, September 2004)
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk5/factbk5.pdf

Quality - state scorecard report: Why Not the Best? (Commonwealth Fund Commission, July 2008)
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=692682

Quality - state snapshots from the National Healthcare Quality Report (AHRQ)
http://statesnapshots.ahrq.gov/statesnapshots/index.jsp

Quality - Talking to Consumers About Health Care Quality (AHRQ, CMS, OPM)
http://www.talkingquality.gov/

Quality - What is Health Care Quality and Who Decides? (AHRQ, March 2009)
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/test031809.htm

Quality - National Health Care Quality Report 2008 (AHRQ, 2009)
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhqr08/nhqr08.pdf

South Carolina - Health & Demographics Section, Office of Research & Statistics
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

Data sets include Emergency Room Visits, Inpatient Hospital Discharges, and Ambulatory Surgery

State Scorecard on Health System Performance 2007 (Commonwealth Fund, 2007)
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/statescorecard/

The Uninsured: A Primer -- The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (January 2006)
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/7451.cfm

Uninsured, Health Coverage and the (Kaiser Family Foundation)
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/index.cfm

HEALTH DISPARITIES

African American - "Health Disparities Experienced by Black or African Americans--United States" - MMWR 54(1), 1-3 (January 14, 2005)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5401.pdf

African American - The Health Status of African American Men in the United States (Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2007)
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/upload/7630.pdf

American Indian Health
http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/

American Indian and Alaska Native, A Review of the Quality of Health Care for (Commonwealth Fund, September 2004)
http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=239464

Changing America, Indicators of Social and Economic Well-being by Race and Hispanic Origin (Council of Economic Advisers for the President's Initiative on Race)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/eop/ca/

Closing the Gap: Solutions to Race-Based Health Disparities (Center for Applied Research, 2005)
http://www.arc.org/pdf/264apdf.pdf

Disparities - arthritis - MMWR 54(5), 119-123 (Feb 11, 2005)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5405.pdf

Disparities - Diabetes Mortality Among Persons Aged 1-19 Years--US, 1979-2004; MMWR 56(45), 1184-1187, 2007
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5645a2.htm

Disparities - disability, hypertension, mortality & nationally notifiable diseases - MMWR 54(1), 3-11 (January 14, 2005)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5401.pdf

Disparities - health care - Access Denied: A Look at America's Medically Disinfranchised (2007)
http://www.nachc.com/research/Files/Access_Denied.pdf

Disparities - health care - (Alliance for Health Reform, Nov 06)
http://www.allhealth.org/publications/pub_38.pdf

Disparities - heart disease and stroke risk factors - MMWR 54(5), 113-117 (Feb 11, 2005)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5405.pdf

Disparities - maternal health-related behaviors - MMWR 53(SS-4), 1-16 (2004)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5304.pdf

Disparities, medical care - Key Facts: Race, Ethnicity and Medical Care, 2007 Update (Kaiser, 2007)
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/6069.cfm

Disparities - National Health Care Disparities Report 2008 (AHRQ, 2009)
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr08/nhdr08.pdf

Disparities - neonatal mortality - MMWR 53(29), 655-658 (July 30, 2004)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5329a2.htm

Disparities - by state - Key Health and Health Care Indicators by Race/Ethnicity and State (Kaiser, 2007)
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/upload/7633.pdf

Disparities - Rural: Health Disparities: Rural-Urban Chartbook (June 2008)
http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/report/(7-3)%20Health%20Disparities%20A%20Rural%20Urban%20Chartbook%20-%20Distribution%20Copy.pdf

Disparities - Rural - sources for data
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/disparities/faq.php#supporting

Disparities in tuberculosis - MMWR 53(25), 556-559 (2004)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5325.pdf

Ethnic and Racial Minorities - USDHHS
http://www.hhs.gov/specificpopulations/index.shtml

Minority Health - Kaiser Family Foundations
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm

Office of Minority Health - Data/Statistics
http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/sidebar/datastats.htm

Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care Reference Library - Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_reflib.asp?id=329&parentid=67&rID=1

"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare: Closing the Gap" (Healthcast, Oct 10, 2003)
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail=989

Racial & Ethnic Populations (CDC Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities)
http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/Populations/populations.htm

Demographics, leading causes of death, high prevalence health issues, health disparities, health statistics, brochures, and slides

Rural - U.S. Rural Soldiers Account for Disproportionately High Share of Causalties in Iraq and Aphganistan (Carsey Institute, 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/RuralDead_11-8final.pdf

South Carolina's Health Disparities 1990-2001 (SCDHEC Bureau of Epidemiology)
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epi/health_disparities_slides.htm

Tribal Health Disparities & Resources - Rural Assistance Center
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/tribal/tribal_health.php

Tutorial (online): Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
http://www.kaiseredu.org/tutorials/race-ethnicity/cayatutorial2.html

UC Atlas of Global Inequality
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/home.html

Understanding & Eliminating Health Disparities in Blacks in South Carolina - County by County Profiles (Medical University of South Carolina)
http://www.musc.edu/healthdisparities/health_disparities/health_disparities.htm

HEALTH EDUCATION

Adult literacy: Clear and Simple: Developing Effective Print Materials for Limited Literacy Adults
http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancerinformation/clearandsimple

Adult literacy: National Assessment of Adult Literacy (home page)
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/

Diabetes: Education Programs (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/edu.htm

Diabetes Resource Links - Agenet
http://www.agenet.com/diabetes_web_sites.html

Health Literacy: National Assessment of Adult Literacy
http://nces.ed.gov/naal/

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit: Obtaining Baseline Measures, Setting Targets, and Measuring Progress
http://www.healthypeople.gov/state/toolkit/default.htm

Healthy Roads Media
http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/

Health education materials in multiple languages

Literacy - Health Literacy Resources (HRSA, Rural Health Policy)
http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/policy/RHCHLR.htm

Practical Guidelines for the Development of Printed Cancer Education Materials for African Americans
http://www.texascancercouncil.org/pgpcemaa/cover.html

Practical Guidelines for the Development of Printed Cancer Education Materials for At-Risk Hispanics
http://www.texascancercouncil.org/hispanic/pg01.html

Plain Language Action Network: About Plain Language
http://www.plainlanguage.gov

Literacy and Health for Life: National Literacy and Health Program, Canadian Public Health Association
http://www.nlhp.cpha.ca/

Teaching Tips Index - Honolulu Community College
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Animal-Borne Epidemics Out of Control: Threatening the Nation's Health - Trust for America's Health, August 2003
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/files/Animalreport.pdf

Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions Under Public Health Surveillance
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/casedef/index.htm

Disease Outbreak News - World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (NIH)
http://science-education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/diseases/default.htm

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, What Are They? (ProMED)(Definition and tables)
http://www.fas.org/promed/about/index.html

Epidemic, outbreak, pandemic: Health Terms Matter, NPR Morning Edition (April 27, 2009)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103516794

Foodborne Illnesses, Diagnosis & Treatment - AMA
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3629.html

Foodborne illnesses - Surveillance data, 1996-2008 (CDC, 2009)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5813a2.htm?s_cid=mm5813a2_e

Global Health Facts (Kaiser Family Foundation)
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/bytopic.jsp

HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, H1N1 Flu, Avian Flu, SARS, Yellow Fever, Diphtheria, Measles, Polio

HIV/AIDS and the South Carolina Law (Young Lawyers Division of the SC Bar, 2000)
http://www.scdhec.net/health/disease/docs/HIVaids.pdf

Immunizations Coverage Data: International (WHO)
http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/countryprofileselect.cfm

Immunization Coverage Data: South Carolina (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/immunization/survey.htm

Immunization Coverage Data: United States (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/stats-surv/imz-coverage.htm#nis

Infectious diseases data, international (Gates & Kaiser Foundations site)
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/

Infectious diseases data, preventable: International (WHO)
http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/countryprofileselect.cfm

Infectious diseases data, South Carolina by county (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/acute/links.htm

Infecious diseases data, United States (CDC)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/summary.html

Infectious Diseases Society of America
http://www.idsociety.org/

Influenza - ethical concerns (MedScape PH & Prevention, May 6, 2009)
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702371?src=mp&spon=42&uac=20616HZ

John Snow site - UCLA Department of Epidemiology
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

National Center for Infectious Diseases - CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
http://www.nfid.org/

Notifiable infectious diseases - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/acute/links.htm

Notifiable infectious diseases - United States
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/dphsi/phs/infdis.htm

Quarantine and Isolation: Lessons Learned from SARS
http://www.louisville.edu/medschool/ibhpl/images/pdf/SARS%20REPORT.pdf

Quick Reference Diseases Chart for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - Professional version
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/diseases/disease-chart-hcp.htm

Quick Reference Diseases Chart for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - Public version
http://www.cdc.gov/nip/diseases/disease-chart-public.htm

Reportable conditions: List of reportable conditions by state (Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists)
http://www.cste.org/dnn/programsandactivities/publichealthinformatics/statereportableconditionsqueryresults/tabid/261/default.aspx

Surveillance Systems Monitoring Infectious Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/osr/site/surv_resources/surv_sys.htm

Vaccines & Immunizations
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

LEADERSHIP AND TEAM BUILDING

Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
http://www.keirsey.com/

Leadership without easy answers, A conversation with Ronald A. Heifetz The Healthcare Forum Journal, 38(4), July-Aug 1995
http://www.well.com/user/bbear/heifetz.html

Team Building, a list of WWW links, assembled by Carter McNamara, copyright 1999
http://www.mapnp.org/library/grp_skll/teams/teams.htm

Team Building: Developing a Productive Team, Nebraska Cooperative Extension
http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/misc/cc352.htm

LEGISLATIVE-RELATED WORLD WIDE WEB SITES

Elected officials by zip code - South Carolina state and national
http://www.scstatehouse.net/cgi-bin/zipcodesearch.exe

Federal Web Locator
http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html

GPO Access - Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips - U. S. Government Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

Search the GPO suite of full-text databases: Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, U.S. Code, Economic Indicators, GAO Reports, et al.

SC - Election Calendar 2002 & Candidate and Party Web Sites
http://sciway.net/gov/sc-elections.html

SC Government
http://myscgov.com/

SC Legislature Online
http://www.scstatehouse.net/

SC Legislature Online - bills introduced
http://www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/legpage.html

State and Local Government on the Net
http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html

THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Net
http://thomas.loc.gov/

U.S. Code Search
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

White House, Welcome to
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

MIGRANT FARM WORKERS

Association of Farm Worker Opportunity Programs
http://www.afop.org/

Background Information -- Florida Association of Community Health Centers
http://www.fachc.org/Mig_background.htm

Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network Home Page
http://www.cmfn.org/

Demographics: Farm Workers - National Agricultural Workers Survey, 2001-02
http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/report9/toc.cfm

Demographics: Hispanics in South Carolina: Where Are They Located (2004)
http://ifs.sc.edu/PDFs/Hispanics%20in%20South%20Carolina.pdf

Demographics: Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Demographics Fact Sheet (2000)
http://www.ncfh.org/docs/fs-Migrant%20Demographics.pdf

Demographics: Profile of Hired Farm Workers, 2008 (USDA)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR60/

Demographics/Employment: Findings from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (1997-1998 (March 2000
http://www.dol.gov/asp/programs/agworker/naws.htm

Facts About Farmworkers
http://www.ncfh.org/docs/fs-Facts%20about%20Farmworkers.pdf

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.
http://www.farmworkerhealth.org/

Farmworker Justice Fund Inc.
http://www.fwjustice.org/

Health: Hispanic Health Needs Assessment (National Alliance for Hispanic Health, 2001)
http://www.hispanichealth.org/hhna.lasso

Health care: Immigrants in the U.S. Health System (Center for American Progress, June 2007)
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/pdf/immigrant_health_report.pdf

Health Issues, Mexico-United States Migration (October 2005)
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/dcdc/COBBH/docs/MIGRATION%20AND%20HEALTH%20REPORT2005.%20Conapo%20%20UC.pdf

Health: South Carolina Statewide Hispanic Health Needs Assessment (2001)
http://ifs.sc.edu/PDFs/HHN%20Report-full%20report.pdf

Immigration: LWVUS Immigration Study background papers
http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=LWVUSImmigrationStudy

Immigrants Changing Rural America (Rural Monitor, Spring 2006)
http://www.raconline.org/newsletter/pdf/spring2006.pdf

Labor & Employment Laws, Guide to (Commission for Labor Cooperation (2004)
http://www.naalc.org/migrant/english/index.shtml

Migrant Clinicians Network
http://www.migrantclinician.org

Migrant Health Program
http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/migrant/

Migrant Health Program - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.gov/omh/

National Alliance for Hispanic Health
http://www.hispanichealth.org/

National Center for Farmworker Health
http://www.ncfh.org/

National Council of LaRaza
http://www.nclr.org/

New Immigrant Settlements in Rural America: Problems, Prospects, and Policies (Carsey Institute, 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/Immigration_Final.pdf

Office of Migrant Education
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/ome/index.html

Pesticide Programs, Office of, EPA
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/

Telamon Corporation - serving farm workers & other low income families in SC
http://www.telamon.org/

PERODICALS - ANNUAL

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics)
http://www.childstats.gov

America's Children 2008, The State of (Children's Defense Fund, 2009)
http://www.childrensdefense.org/child-research-data-publications/data/state-of-americas-children-2008-report.pdf

America's Health: State Health Rankings - United Health Foundation
http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/

Child Health USA
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/mchirc/chusa/

Child Maltreatement Reports
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm

Health, United States (Most recent issue back to 1993)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

Health, United States - state data
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/state.htm

Healthy People Living in Healthy Communities: A Report on the Health of South Carolina's People and Environment
http://www.scdhec.gov/administration/library/ML-006048.pdf

South Carolina Annual Report on Reportable Conditions (SCDHEC)
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/docs/Annual_Report_on_Reportable_Conditions.pdf

South Carolina Detailed Morbidity Statistics
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

South Carolina Infant Mortality and Selected Birth Characteristics
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

South Carolina Maternal and Child Health Data Book
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

South Carolina Teen Pregnancy Data Book
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

South Carolina Vital and Morbidity Statistics
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

South Carolina Vital Records Health Atlas
http://www.scdhec.net/co/phsis/biostatistics/index.asp?page=pubreps

State of the South
http://www.mdcinc.org/knowledge/

World Health Report
http://www.who.int/whr/

Vital and Health Statistics Series
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/ser.htm

PERIODICALS - JOURNALS

Advance Data from Vital Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/ad/ad.htm

Current Population Reports
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/popula.html

Emerging Infectious Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasrlink.htm

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports - South Carolina
http://www.scdhec.net/hs/diseasecont/stdwk/html/surveillance.htm

Life Tables
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/lftbls/lftbls.htm

MMWR Recommendations and Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_rr.html

MMWR Summary of Notifiable Diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/summary.html

MMWR Surveillance Summaries
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_ss.html

MMWR Weekly (Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Review)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Monthly Vital Statistics Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/mvsr/mvsr.htm

National Vital Statistics Reports
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm

Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/

PERIODICALS - OTHER

Closing the Gap, Newsletter of the Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov/omh/sidebar/omh-publications.htm

Epi Notes - Newsletter of SCDHEC Bureau of Disease Control
http://www.scdhec.gov/health/disease/index.htm

Immunization Newsbriefs
http://www.infoinc.com/imnews2/

Infectious Disease News (Slack Newsletter)
http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/

Infectious Diseases in Children (Slack Newsletter)
http://idinchildren.com/

Vital Statistics of the United States, 1997, Part I, Natality
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/natality/natab97.htm

PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS

An Ounce of Prevention....What are the Returns? (2nd ed.), 1999, CDC, Epidemilogy Program Office, Prevention Effectiveness Branch
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/prevent.htm

Bad Bug Book: Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

Put Prevention into Practice: Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services (USDHHS, PHS, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ppipix.htm

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (3rd ed.), U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/cps3dix.htm

Guide to Community Preventive Services
http://www.thecommunityguide.org/default.htm

PUBLICATIONS - REPORTS

Burden of Diabetes in South Carolina 2003
http://www.scdhec.gov/hs/epidata/Centered/PDF/diabetes/2003%20Burden%20report%20final%20version.pdf#xml=http://www.dhec.sc.gov/cgi-bin/texis.exe/Webinator/search/xml.txt?query=office+of+primary+care&pr=www&prox=page&rorder=500&rprox=500=500&rwfreq=500=500&sufs=1&order=r&cq=&id=413403bba

Disease-Specific Estimates of Direct and Indirect Costs of Illness and NIH Support, FY 2000 Update - USDHHS
http://ospp.od.nih.gov/ecostudies/COIreportweb-about.asp

From Generation to Generation: Health and Well-being of Immigrant Children
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6164.html

Health, Nutrition and Population - The World Bank Group
http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp/

Healthy People 2010
http://www.healthypeople.gov/

Healthy People 2000 Reviews
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hp2k/review/review.htm

Hispanic - The New Latino South: The Context & Consequences of Rapid Population Growth (Pew Hispanice Center, July 2005)
http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/50.1.pdf

Kaiser Family Foundation - Various Health-Related Reports
http://www.kff.org/

No Time to Lose: Getting More from HIV Prevention (Institute of Medicine, 2001)
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309071372/html/

Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being, Federal Interagency Forum on Aged-Related Statistics
http://www.agingstats.gov/Agingstatsdotnet/Main_Site/

Snapshots of America's Families III: 2002 results
http://www.urban.org/content/Research/NewFederalism/NSAF/Snapshots/Snapshots.htm

A national survey of America's families by the Urban Institute. Issues covered by the survey include: economic security, health and health care, child well-being, and family environment.

State and couny reports on asthma, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance, cardiovascular disease, chronic diseases, diabetes, maternal/child health

WHO report on global surveillance of epidemic-prone infectious diseases
http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/surveillance/WHO_CDS_CSR_ISR_2000_1/en/

Women's Health USA 2002
ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/mchb/whusa02.pdf

Young Adults in South Carolina
http://www.scyoungadults.org/

PUBLICATIONS - OTHER, INCLUDING WORLD WIDE WEB SITES

Emerging Diseases, Internet Sites for
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/execsum/sites.htm

Healthfinder, Your Guide to Reliable Health Information - USDHHS Search Engine
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Health Professional Shortage Areas
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/

ICD Codes: ICD-10-CM Index, Tabular List (WHO)
http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/

ICD Codes: ICD-9 and ICD-10 comparability tables
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_02.pdf

ICD Finder Keyword Search - CDC Wonder
http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/cgi-bin/asp/ICDfinder.asp

Immunization Information, National Network for
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/about/index.cfm

Leading Health Indicators - Healthy People 2010
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/LHI/

MedWebPlus - catalog of online and print medical publications
http://www.medwebplus.com/

PubMed - National Library of Medicine
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

State Health Facts Online - Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?

Suicide Prevention Resource Center
http://www.sprc.org/index.asp

RURAL DATA

Seeking Rural Health Data: A Tool Kit
http://rho.arizona.edu/Resources/Toolkit/default.html

Access to Care Among Rural Minorities (Internet Explorer only)
http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/index6.html

Agriculture Fact Book (USDA)
http://www.usda.gov/factbook/

Agriculture - Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/statsfr.html

Census of Agriculture
http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/

Demographic and Economic Profile: South Carolina (Metro/Nonmetro; RUPRI, 2006)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/SouthCarolina.pdf

Demographics - Changing Demographic Profile of Rural America (Southern Rural Development Center, 2006)
http://srdc.msstate.edu/pcrs_issuebriefs/kirschner.pdf

Demographics - Demographic Trends in Rural & Small Town America (Carsey Institute, 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_Demographics.pdf

Demographics - Demographic Trends in Metro vs Nonmetro Counties, 2000-2007, (RUPRI, August 2008)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/race_ethnicity.pdf

Demographics - Hispanics - A Profile of Latinos in Rural America (Carsey Institute, Winter 2008)
http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/SaenzRuralLatinoFS08.pdf

Demographics - Place Matters: Challenges & Opportunities in Four Rural Americas (Carsey Institute, 2008)
http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/Report_PlaceMatters.pdf

Demograhics - Population Dynamics are Changing the Profile of Rural Areas (April 2007)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/April07/Features/Population.htm

Profiles of America: Demographic Data and Graphic Builder (US & States; USDA))
http://maps.ers.usda.gov/Profiles/index.aspx

Demographics - Race and Ethnicity in Rural America
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/RaceAndEthnic/

Demographics - Rural Population & Migration (USDA Economic Resarch Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Population/

Demographics - Rural Population Change & Net Migration
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Population/popchange/

Rural population data from Census 2000 Summary File 1, Table P2. Urban & Rural
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPageServlet?_program=DEC&_submenuId=datasets_1&_lang=en&_ts=

On the Data Sets menu, select "Census 2000 Summary file 1"
On the menu on the right side of the page, click on "Enter a table number" and type "P2"
Proceed to select specific geographic area for which rural population information is desired

Disparities - Rural - data sources
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/disparities/faq.php#supporting

Disparities - Rural - Health Disparities: A Rural-Urban Chartbook (SCRHRC, June 2008)
http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/report/(7-3)%20Health%20Disparities%20A%20Rural%20Urban%20Chartbook%20-%20Distribution%20Copy.pdf

Economic trends: Rural America in Deep Downturn (RUPRI, March 2009)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/RUPRI%20Rural%20America%20in%20Deep%20Downturn.pdf

Employment - Farm Labor Data & Charts - USDA, National Agriculture Statistics Service
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Farm_Labor/index.asp

Employment - Farm Labor Report (updated annually)
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1063

Fact sheets on rural health (SC Rural Health Research Center)
http://rhr.sph.sc.edu/factsheets.html

Farms, Land in Farms, and Livestock Operations
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1259

Geospatial Data Warehouse (HRSA)
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/default.aspx

Health care - Rural-Urban comparison of access, use & expenses 2004-06 - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (April 2009)
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/meps/chbook13up.htm

Health Disparities in Rural Communities: An Introduction (NRHA, May 2006)
http://www.nrharural.org/advocacy/sub/policybriefs/HlthDisparity.pdf

Health insurance - 2007 Health Insurance Survey of Farm Ranch Operators, Brief 3 (Sep 08)
http://www.accessproject.org/adobe/issue_brief_no_3.pdf

Health insurance - 2007 Health Insurance Survey of Farm & Ranch Operators, Brief 2 (Dec 07)
http://www.accessproject.org/adobe/issue_brief_no_2.pdf

Health insurance - The Causes and Consequences of Rural Uninsured & Underinsured (Center for Rural Affairs, April 2009)
http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Causes-and-Consequences-of-Rural-Uninsured.pdf

Health insurance - Rural Residents More Likely to be Underinsured (2006)
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/Publications/rural/pb33.pdf

Health Insurance as a New Indicator of Farm Households' Well-Being (Amber Waves, April 2008)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/April08/Findings/HealthInsurance.htm

Health, United States With Urban & Rural Chartbook
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus01.pdf

Health, United States, 2004--Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan data tables
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/metro.htm

Home ownership in 2000 - rural vs. urban - USDA (2004)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Amberwaves/April04/Findings/RuralHomeownership.htm

Injuries - Childhood Agricultural Injuries, 2009 Fact Sheet
http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/proxy/MCRF-Centers-NFMC-NCCRAHS-ChildAgInjuryFactSheet022009.1.pdf

Injuries and Fatalities on U.S. Farms
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/summaries/aib739.htm

Maps - Defining Rural America
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/maps.html

Maps - Rural Indicators Map Machine - USDA/ERS
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/RuralMapMachine/

Maps - Rural Populations and Health Care Providers: A Map Book
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/mapbook2003/index.html

Maps - State Maps Showing RUCA Codes Aggregated into Four Categories: Urban, Large Rural, Small Rural, and Isolated, by Census Tract (WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, 2003)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwruca/ruca1/NationwideTract/ustract.htm

Poverty, Income, Welfare--Rural (USDA)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/incomepovertywelfare/

Poverty - [Rural] Poverty Well-Being (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Browse/view.aspx?subject=RuralEconomyPovertyWell-being

Rural America at a Glance - Series of Data Brochures (USDA)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ruralataglance/

Rural America At A Glance
Rural Broadband At A Glance
Rural Children At A Glance
Rural Education At A Glance
Rural Employment At A Glance
Rural Hispanics At A Glance)
Rural Transportation At A Glance
Rural Poverty At A Glance

South Carolina Rural Health Report
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/rural_health.asp

State Fact Sheets - Metro/Nonmetro Population, Employment & Income; Farm Characteristics
http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/

RURAL DEFINITIONS

Federal Definitions (Rural Policy Research Institute, April 2007)
http://www.raconline.org/pdf/CommonRuralDefinitionAppendix.pdf

Choosing Rural Definitions: Implications for Policy (RUPRI, March 2007)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/RuralDefinitionsBrief.pdf

Defining the "Rural" in Rural America (in Amber Waves, June 2008)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June08/Features/RuralAmerica.htm

Counties by Rural/Urban Continuum Codes (Population Reference Bureau, Rural Families Data Center)
http://www.prb.org/rfdcenter/USACountiesBealeCodes2003.pdf

County Typology Codes (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/TypologyCodes/

Rural Urban Commuting Area code definitions (WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, 2006)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwruca/travel_dist.html

What is Rural? (USDA National Agricultural Library)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/what_is_rural.shtml

RURAL HEALTH AGENCIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

AAFP Rural Family Practice Community
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/membership/ruralcommunity.html

Capital Hill Rural Health Round Table
http://rhr.gmu.edu

Frontier Education Center: National Clearinghouse for Frontier Communities
http://www.frontierus.org/index.htm

National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
http://ruralcommittee.hrsa.gov/

A 21-member citizens' panel of nationally recognized experts that provides recommendations on rural health and human services issues
to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; chaired by former South Carolina Governor David Beasley.
Provides an annual report of recommendations regarding three key rural health issues.

National Farm Medicine Center
http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/nfmc/default.aspx?page=nfmc_welcome

National Rural Health Association
http://www.nrharural.org/

North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/Rural_Program/

Office of Rural Health Policy
http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/

Rural Assistance Center
http://www.raconline.org/

The Rural Assistance Center (RAC) was established in 2002 as a rural health and human services "information portal"
to help rural communities and other rural stakeholders access the full range of available programs,
funding, and research that can enable them to provide quality health and human services to rural residents.
To accomplish this, RAC gathers and streamlines information from myriad sources and provides
easy access to that information. Check out the "Recent News" section for up to the minute news related to rural health and other rural issues!

Rural Information Center
http://www.nalusda.gov/ric/

Rural Policy Research Institute
http://www.rupri.org/

Rural School and Community Trust
http://www.ruraledu.org/

South Carolina Rural Health Research Center
http://hadm.sph.sc.edu/rhr/

WORKFORCE DATA AND RURAL HEALTH PRACTICE TRENDS

Allied Health Professions: Salaries, Rural vs. Urban (U North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2009)
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/pubs/report/FR96.pdf

Facts About ...Rural Physicians
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/phy.html

Family Practice Physicians, Rural (AAFP)
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/membership/ruralcommunity/ourruralcommunity.html

Health Manpower Supply (Scroll down to 6th category)
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu//research_programs/Rural_Program/maps/maps.html

Health Workforce Information Center
http://www.healthworkforceinfo.org/

Minorities in the Health Professions, Missing Persons (Sullivan Commission, 2004)
http://www.sullivancommission.org/

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis - Bureau of Health Professions
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/

National Center for Health Workforce Analysis: Reports - Bureau of Health Professions
http://www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/default.htm

National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet)
http://www.3rnet.org/aboutus

Nursing Workforce: "A Profile of the South Carolina Nursing Workforce, 2003" SC Office of Research & Statistics
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/manpower/nurs/2003Nursing.pdf

Nursing Shortage (Kaiser Family Foundation (July 2008)
http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?id=138&imID=1&parentID=61

Physician Incomes in Rural and Urban America - Center for Studying Health System Change (January 2005)
http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/725/

Physician Supply & Demand: Projections Through 2025 (AAMC, 2008)
http://services.aamc.org/Publications/showfile.cfm?file=version122.pdf&prd%5Fid=244&prv%5Fid=299p&pdf%5Fid=122

Physician Supply Distribution in Rural Areas of the United States in 2005 (Nov 2007)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwrhrc/uploads/RHRC%20FR116%20Fordyce.pdf

Physician Workforce, Rural: Graduates 1988-1997 in rural practices in 2005 (U of WA, October 2008)
http://depts.washington.edu/uwrhrc/uploads/RHRC%20FR113%20Policy%20Brief.pdf

Primary care professionals--Trends, Projections (GAO, Feb 08)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08472t.pdf

Primary care workforce shortage: Access Transformed (National Assoc of Community Health Centers, August 2008)
http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/ACCESS%20Transformed%20full%20report.PDF

Public health workforce: Public Health Workforce Shortages Imperil Nation's Health (Center for Studying Health Systems Change (2008, April 16)
http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/979/

Rural Populations and Health Care Providers: A Map Book (2002)
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_programs/rural_program/mapbook2003/

Shortage Designation: HPSAs, MUAs, & MUPs (HRSA)
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/index.htm

Shortage - What Works: Healthing the Healthcare Staffing Shortage (PriceWaterhouseCooper, July 2007)
http://pwchealth.com/cgi-local/hregister.cgi?link=reg/pubwhatworks.pdf

South Carolina, Trends in the Supply of Licensed Health Professionals in
http://www.ors2.state.sc.us/

State of the Health Workforce in Rural America (WWAMI, 2003)
http://depts.washington.edu/wwamiric/location_profession.php?location_id=8&profession_id=3

State Health Workforce Profiles - Bureau of Health Professions
http://www.bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/profiles/

Workers Who Care: A Graphical Profile of the Frontline Health and Health Care Workforce (RWJ, Nov 06)
http://www.rwjf.org/files/publications/other/workers_who_care.pdf

RURAL HEALTH PROGRAMS/BENEFIT PROGRAMS

Benefit programs, low-income--by state
http://www.cbpp.org/1-14-04tanf.htm

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/

Children's Health Insurance Program (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/chip.asp

Critical Access Hospitals (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Certificationandcomplianc/04_CAHs.asp

Critical Access Hospitals: Frequently Asked Questions (Rural Assistance Center)
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/hospitals/cah.php

Federally Qualified Health Centers
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/clinics/index.html

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) Center (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/center/fqhc.asp

Federally Qualified Health Center Fact Sheet (DHHS, April 2008)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/fqhcfactsheet.pdf

Federal Programs Meeting the Health Care Needs of Rural Americans, Selected (Capital Area Rural Health Round Table, 2001)
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/chpre/ruralhealth/briefspublications/papers/Fed_Programs_Paper_2001.PDF

Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FoodNutritionAssistance/

Food Stamp Program
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/

Food Stamp Program - Rural America Depends on the Food Stamp Program to Make Ends Meet (Carsey Institute, 2005)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/Carsey_Brief%20Food%20Stamps.pdf

Health Center Program (HRSA)
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/

Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) & Physcian Scarcity Area Incentive Bonus (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid)
http://www.cahabagba.com/part_b/enroll_update_your_records/hpsa_psa.htm

Health Professional Shortage Area - search engine
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/index.htm

Medicaid at A Glance (Kaiser, Nov 2008)
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7235_03-2.pdf

Medicaid - South Carolina eligibility
http://www.dhhs.state.sc.us/InsideDHHS/Bureaus/BureauofBeneficiaryandSystemsSupport/other92732003.htm

Medicaid - Disproportionate Share Hospital Program (National Health Policy Forum, September 2004)
http://www.nhpf.org/pdfs_bp/BP%5FMedicaidDSH%5F09%2D14%2D04%2Epdf

Medicaid and Its Importance to Rural Health (RUPRI, May 2006)
http://www.rupri.org/Forms/IssueBrief.pdf

Medicaid at a Glance - Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2006
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7235.cfm

Medicaid Financing 101 Briefing - Kaiser Family Foundation, April 19, 2004
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/041904_kff_medicaid.pdf

Medicaid and Long Term Care - Kaiser Family Foundation, May 2004
http://www.kff.org/medicaid/7089a.cfm

Medicaid - Understanding Medicaid - Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2005
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1373

Medicare (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/medicare.asp

Medicare At a Glance (Kaiser, Nov 2008)
http://www.kff.org/medicare/upload/1066_11.pdf

Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital Fact Sheet (April 2008)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/2008_mdsh.pdf

Medicare - Guide "Talking About Medicare & Health Coverage" (Kaiser, 2004)
http://www.kff.org/medicare/7067/?CFID=14594040&CFTOKEN=29215463

Medicare Information for HPSAs and Physician Scarcity Areas (PSAs) (Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/providers/bonuspayment/

Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment Fact Sheet (2009)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/AcutePaymtSysfctsht.pdf

Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, Health Centers Grants for
http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/cfda/P93246.htm#i33

Migrant Health Program
http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/migrant/

MUA/MUP Search Engine
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/index.htm

Prescription Assistance, Partnership for
https://www.pparx.org/Intro.php

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America’s pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that’s right for them.

Rural Health Clinic Fact Sheet (2007)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/rhcfactsheet.pdf

Rural Health Clinics
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/clinics/index.html

Rural health clinics - Starting A Rural Health Clinic: A How To Manual (USDHHS, 2004)
http://www.raconline.org/pdf/rhcmanual1.pdf

Ryan White Program for HIV (Kaiser, Feb 2009)
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/7582.cfm

Shortage Designation Branch, Bureau of Health Professions, HRS, USDHHS
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/databases/newmua/

Sole Community Hospital Fact Sheet (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, April 2008)
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/2006sch.pdf

TANF Program (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/opa/fact_sheets/tanf_factsheet.html

Telehealth - The FCC's Universal Service Program for Rural Health Providers (Federal Communication Commission)
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/usp_RuralHealthcare.html

WIC Program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/

RURAL - OTHER - PUBLICATIONS AND WEB SITES

Amber Waves (magazine): The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/Allissues/

EMS report - Rural and Frontier Emergency Services: Agenda for the Future
http://www.nrharural.org/EMSagenda/EMS_Book_9_17A.pdf

Farm Policy, Farm Households, and the Rural Economy: Overview (USDA Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/Adjustments/overview.htm

Farm Safety
http://www.nclabor.com/osha/etta/indguide/ig10.pdf

Harvesting Health - National Farm Medicine Center
http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/nfmc/harvest.htm

Health care, rural - Hard Times in the Heartland, Health Care in Rural America (USDHHS, 2009)
http://healthreform.gov/reports/hardtimes/ruralreport.pdf

Health care reform - Top 10 Rural Issues for Health Care Reform (Center for Rural Affairs, Feb 2009)
http://files.cfra.org/pdf/Ten-Rural-Issues-for-Health-Care-Reform.pdf

Health: Essential Resource for Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Self-Sufficiency (March 2006)
http://fsos.che.umn.edu/img/assets/16501/March_Health_PolicyBrief.pdf

Health: Essential to Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Economic Well-Being (March 2006)
http://fsos.che.umn.edu/img/assets/16501/March_Health_FactSheet.pdf

Health, United States, 2001, With Urban and Rural Chartbook
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/hus.htm

Hispanics - New Patterns of Hispanic Settlement in Rural America (USDA Economic Research Service, May 2004)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/rdrr99/

Information for Rural Practitioners
http://www.ruralfamilymedicine.org/information_for_family_practice_.htm

About Rural America - sociocultural factors
Rural Health Issues - bibliography on various issues
Rural Community & Health Information Resources
Clinical Topics - agromedicine

Institute of Medicine Rural Health Report: Next Steps in Legislation and Programs (RUPRI, 2006)
http://www.rupri.org/healthpolicy/pubs/p2006-1.pdf

Low Skill Workers in Rural America Face Permanent Job Loss (Spring 2006)
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/documents/Displaced_workers_spring06.pdf

Mental Health and Rural America, 1994-2005 (2006)
ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/ruralhealth/RuralMentalHealth.pdf

National Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
http://research.marshfieldclinic.org/children/

Research - Database for Rural Health Research in Progress (Maine Rural Health Research Center)
http://www.rural-health.org/

Rural America: Challenges and Opportunities
http://www.blackhealthcare.com/BHC/CBHP/References/Ch2NINR.htm

National Institute of Nursing Research. (1995, October). Chapter 2: Rural America: Challenges and opportunities. In Community-based health care:
Nursing strategies (NIH Publication No. 95-3917). Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Rural Health Care: Innovations in Policy & Practice (Grantmakers in Health, March 2009)
http://www.gih.org/usr_doc/Rural_Health_Care_March_2009.pdf

Rural Health & Human Service Issues, The 2006 Report to the Secretary
http://ruralcommittee.hrsa.gov/nacpubs.htm

Rural health care issues - Top 10 Rural Health Care Issues (Agri News, April 2009)
http://webstar.postbulletin.com/agrinews/295942155926021.bsp

Rural health clinics & community health centers, a comparison (June 2006)
http://www.ask.hrsa.gov/downloads/fqhc-rhccomparison.pdf

Rural health clinics: Resources and News (Healthcare Business Specialists)
http://www.ruralhealthclinic.com/news.htm

Rural Health Research Findings - Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
http://www.ahcpr.gov/research/ruralix.htm

Rural Healthy People 2010
http://srph.tamhsc.edu/centers/rhp2010/

Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Tracking Project
http://www.rupri.org/rhfp-track/

Rural medicine - award winning article, ACP Observer, Nov 1999
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov99/hardtimes.htm

Rural Welfare Issues - Welfare Information Network
http://www.welfareinfo.org/rural.htm

Safety - National Ag Safety Database
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/

Safety Net, Supporting the Rural Health Care - Urban Institute, March 2000
http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?NavMenuID=24&template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=6464

Report of a study of the rural health care safety net based on case studies in rural communities in Alabama, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas & Washington

Transportation: Highway Safety, Federal & State Efforts to Address Rural Road Safety Challenges (GAO, May 2004)
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04663.pdf

Transportation Needs in Rural Communities (March 2004)
http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/transportation/issuenote.html

Understanding Rural America - USDA, Economic Research Service, February 1995
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/resources/backgrnd/understd.htm

What's different about rural healthcare? (NRHA)
http://www.ruralhealthweb.org/go/left/about-rural-health