National Health Statistics Reports

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.

Background-Administrative data from medical claims are often used for injury surveillance. Effective October 1, 2015, hospitals covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act were required to use the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) to report medical information in administrative data. In 2017, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) published a proposed ICD-10-CM surveillance case definition for injuryrelated emergency department (ED) visits...

Objective-This report examines differences in survey reports of disability between two sets of disability questions, the Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS) developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) and a set of disability questions developed for the American Community Survey (ACS).

Objective-This report presents prevalence estimates of prescription opioid use among U.S. adults with chronic pain.

Objective-This report presents trends in mean weight, recumbent length, height, waist circumference, and body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents in the United States from 1999 through 2018.

Objectives-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, poverty status, education level, employment status, and marital status.

Background-Regular screening tests can lead to early detection of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers, when treatment is likely to be more effective. This study examines and compares sociodemographic, health status, and health behavior patterns of screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer among women aged 45 and over in the United States. Methods-This study is based on data from the 2015 and 2018 National Health Interview Surveys. Women were considered to have received colorectal cancer screening if they reported having one of the following: a) report of a home fecal occult blood test (FOBT) in the past year, b) sigmoidoscopy procedure in the past 5 years with FOBT in the past 3 years, or c) colonoscopy in the past 10 years...

Background-The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Joinpoint regression software is a widely used software program for evaluating trends. In addition to producing model estimates for trend models, this software can search for changes in slope along the trend line. One component of the software, which tests whether line segment slopes are zero, is different from the usual t-test of zero slope that is used in linear models. This report will demonstrate this Joinpoint software procedure through replication using the SAS Institute's statistical software (that is, SAS) and discuss the implications of the different assumptions used by Joinpoint and a typical SAS model for the test of zero slope...