National Health Statistics Reports

Objective-This report provides a descriptive analysis of a sample of adult patients who visited the emergency department (ED) for nonfatal opioid overdose (NOO), using restricted-use 2016 National Hospital Care Survey data linked to the 2016-2017 National Death Index and the 2016-2017 Drug-Involved Mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

Objective-Linking data is a powerful mechanism to provide policy-relevant information. The National Center for Health Statistics' Data Linkage Program produces linked mortality files (LMFs) for research by linking data from the National Center for Health Statistics' surveys, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), to mortality data from the National Death Index. Assessing the accuracy of the linked data is an important step in ensuring its analytic use. This report compares the cumulative survival probabilities estimated with the 2006-2018 NHIS LMFs to those from the annual U...

Objective-This report presents estimates for selected health conditions and health care use among American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) adults by tribal land residential status.

Objective-In addition to health insurance coverage options available to the general population, veterans may have access to Tricare, a healthcare program for uniformed services members and retirees, and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care. This report measures the financial burden of medical care among veterans aged 25-64 and examines how that burden may vary by health insurance coverage.

Objective-This report describes emergency department (ED) visits related to mental health disorders among adults and assesses differences in mental health-related ED visit characteristics by race and Hispanic ethnicity.

Objective-This report presents national estimates of people living in families having problems paying medical bills by selected sociodemographic and geographic characteristics, including sex, race and Hispanic origin, family income, health insurance coverage status, education level, urbanization level, region, and state Medicaid expansion status.

Objective-This report presents national estimates of selected fertility measures for men and women aged 15-49 in the United States in 2015-2019, based on data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Overall estimates for 2015-2019 are compared with those for 2011-2015.

Objective-The United States Department of Agriculture's MyPlate is based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and serves as the primary educational tool to communicate federal dietary guidance. This report presents the percentage of adults who have heard of MyPlate and who have tried MyPlate along with their associations with self-rated diet quality.

Objective-This report presents national estimates of different types of health insurance coverage and lack of coverage (uninsured).Estimates are presented by selected sociodemographic characteristics, including age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, family income, education level, employment status, and marital status.

Objective-This report presents state, regional, and national estimates of the percentage of people who were uninsured, had private health insurance coverage, and had public health insurance coverage at the time of the interview.

Objective-To assess final estimates of physician experiences related to COVID-19 and to compare preliminary estimates used in NCHS early-release dashboards with final estimates in this report.

Objective-This report describes emergency department (ED) visits made by adults with selected chronic conditions associated with severe COVID-19 illness.

This report demonstrates the use of National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) data to describe characteristics of patients experiencing opioid-involved hospital encounters with co-occurring disorders, defined as lifetime diagnoses of both a substance use disorder (SUD) and a selected mental health issue (MHI), that is, diagnosed at any point in the past or during the present encounter.

Objective-This report examines differences across two different sets of measures used to assess anxiety and depression in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

Objective-This report demonstrates use of three National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data systems to study differences in health by sexual orientation. Sexual orientation differences in a broad selection of health indicators were examined using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), and National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

Objective-This report presents national estimates of telemedicine use for U.S. children in the 12 months before the interview, and because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Objective-This report presents state, regional, and national estimates of the percentage of people who were uninsured, had private health insurance coverage, and had public health insurance coverage at the time of the interview.

Objective-This report presents national estimates of different types of health insurance coverage and lack of coverage (uninsured). Estimates are presented by selected sociodemographic characteristics, including age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, family income, education level, employment status, and marital status.

Objective-This report demonstrates the ability of data from the National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) linked to the National Death Index (NDI) to provide information on inpatient hospitalizations and in-hospital and post-acute mortality among patients hospitalized for a specific condition, in this case pneumonia.

Objective-This report demonstrates the ability of the National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) to examine delivery hospitalizations involving severe maternal morbidity (SMM). These data are unweighted and not nationally representative, so the results are intended to illustrate the unique capability of NHCS to track patients across hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits rather than provide nationally representative estimates of these outcomes.