OBJECTIVES In 2001, the Health Center Growth Initiative was launched to increase access to primary health-care services through the expansion of the health center program. We examined the impact this initiative had on the number and types of patients seen by health centers, as well as the health center characteristics significantly associated with service expansions. METHODS We conducted seco...

Introduction Since 2008, poisoning has become the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States (US); since 1980, the poisoning-related fatality rate in the US has almost tripled.1 Many poison-related injuries and deaths are reported to regional poison centers (PCs) which receive about 2.4 million reports of human chemical and poison exposures annually.2 Federal, state, and local p...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus. Iran is one of the countries affected by the disease. Health center services have a critical role in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study with the aim of providing the functions and services of primary health care was performed by a health center in Iran during the COVID-19 outb...

OBJECTIVE To test the relationship between external environments, organizational characteristics, and technical efficiency in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). We tested the relationship between grant revenue and technical efficiency in FQHCs. DATA SOURCES/STUDY DESIGN Secondary data were collected in each year from the Uniform Data System (UDS) on 644 eligible U.S.-based FQHCs betw...

A survey measuring heights and weights of 1969 schoolchildren residing on the Navajo Indian Reservation was conducted in 1989. The findings were compared with National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reference data and with surveys of Navajo children from 1955, 1968, and 1981. Approximately twice as many children exceeded the 95th percentile of weight-for-age (1 1 .2% of girls, 1 2.5% of bo...

Introduction In 2013, NCHS completed a mortality update for the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) participants for the years 1985 to 2009, with mortality ascertained through December 31, 2011. Due to requirements to protect the confidentiality of the NHIS participants, restricted-use versions of the NHIS Linked Mortality Files were made available only through the NCHS Research Data Center...