OBJECTIVE This report presents estimates of basic actions difficulty, which includes difficulties related to sensory, motor, cognitive, and emotional or behavioral functioning, in U.S. children aged 5-17 years based on questions from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Selected estimates are shown for the educational and health care service use of children with and without basic action...

BACKGROUND Linking computerized health insurance records with routinely collected survey data is becoming increasingly popular in health services research. However, if consent is not universal, the requirement of written informed consent may introduce a number of research biases. The participants of a national health survey in Taiwan were asked to have their questionnaire results linked to thei...

In this paper we describe two projects at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications of the National Library of Medicine. The first project is a digital atlas for the interpretation of osteoarthritic conditions in the cervical and lumbar spines, using methodology developed by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). The goal of the at...

There are noted disparities by ethnicity, race, age, gender, and socioeconomic status in the reported use of and access to cancer information. Missing from this list of variables that predict these disparities are specific geographic locales, such as Appalachia, a region recognized as a medically underserved, “special population”. Through a secondary analysis of NCI’s 2003 HINTS dataset, we are...

Background: An obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. Proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. Recently, I.R. of Iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. Conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

BACKGROUND We attempted to identify the domain of self-rated health (SRH) that best predicts medical care utilization among Taiwanese adults. In addition, we examined the association between SRH and different measure of medical care utilization. METHODS We analyzed data on 11 987 community-dwelling adults aged 18 to 64 years from the 2005 Taiwan National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). NHIS d...

Asthma is a highly prevalent and disabling disease of childhood. Data from national surveys indicate that 5–11 percent of children and adolescents in the United States— totaling over 4 million persons—have physician-diagnosed asthma (1–4). It is the most prevalent cause of childhood disability, with 1.4 percent of US children having disabling asthma (5). These data leave little room to doubt th...

OBJECTIVES We assessed the comparability of self-reported smoking prevalence estimates from a dual-frame survey with those from two large-scale, national surveys. METHODS The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) obtained self-reported current smoking status via a dual-frame methodology in the fall of 2010. One frame used random digit dialling procedures and consisted of household...

BACKGROUND Health information technology (HIT) is utilized by people with different chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. However, there has been no comparison of HIT use between persons without a chronic condition, with one chronic condition, and multiple (≥2) chronic conditions (MCCs). OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to assess the difference in HIT use between persons wit...