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• Eight Highest Rated States for Overweight or Obese Youth Also Have High Childhood Poverty Rates
  KIDS COUNT data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that the eight states with the highest rates of overweight or obese youth also have high rates of childhood poverty and usually score low on measures of child well-being. African-American and Hispanic children and youth are more likely than white children to be overweight or obese. Children in households with incomes under 200 percent of the poverty level are more likely than those living in higher-income households to be overweight or obese (38 percent versus 26 percent respectively).
  www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/snapshot.jsp
• Health and Well-Being of Children: A Portrait of States and the Nation 2005
  The National Survey of Children's Health, conducted for the first time in 2003, addresses multiple aspects of child health. The website has national and state level data on physical and mental health, health care, and social well-being. The survey also examined aspects of the family and the neighborhood that can affect children's health. Complimentary copies of the chart book may be ordered as well.
  www.mchb.hrsa.gov/thechild/index.htm
• 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data Available
  The CDC's Behavioral Surveillance Branch has released the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data and prevalence tables. The BRFSS is a surveillance system that includes information on health risk behaviors, clinical preventive health practices, and health care access, primarily related to chronic disease and injury. The BRFSS provides flexible, timely, and ongoing data collection that allows for State-to-State and State-to-nation comparisons. State-specific data, including racial-and-ethnic-specific data from the BRFSS, provide a sound basis for developing and evaluating public health programs, including programs targeted to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health risks. The BRFSS is the largest telephone-based surveillance system in the world, with 303,821 interviews in 2004. The 2004 BRFSS data and prevalence tables are located at
  www.cdc.gov/brfss
• Healthy People 2010 Database
  The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has updated DATA2010, the on-line Healthy People 2010 database. DATA2010 is an interactive database that contains the most recent monitoring data for tracking Healthy People 2010. Data are included for all the objectives and subgroups identified in the Healthy People 2010: Objectives for Improving Health. DATA2010 contains primarily national data. However, state-based data are provided as available.
  wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/
• CDC's Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) Website
  The recently updated website information includes data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) including the "Healthy Days" measures, several new state and community program links, validation study abstracts, and new references that use or discuss the Healthy Days measures. Findings indicate that, during 1993-2001, the perceived physical and mental health of U.S. adults worsened. Also, unhealthy days, activity limitation days, and self-rated health measures showed important differences among socioeconomic and demographic subgroups (e.g., unemployment, low income, lack of education, and chronic illness).
  www.cdc.gov/hrqol/
• Social Explorer
  Social Explorer is an easy to use resource for demographic information. By clicking on maps and selecting demographics you are interested in, you can get demographic information from the national level all the way down to an individual census tract.
  www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx
• State Health Facts
  The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation provides free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data. Recent updates include information on smoking, mental health, and hearing screening, among other topics.
  www.Statehealthfacts.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi