Health, United States
Contributors: National Center for Health Services Research
Series: 1975-1976/77, 1979: DHEW publication -- no. (HRA); 1978: DHEW publication -- no. (PHS); <1986>-1992: DHHS publication -- no. (PHS); 1993-<2001>: DHHS pub -- no. (PHS); <2004>- : DHHS publication; DHEW publication -- no. (HRA); DHEW publication -- no. (PHS); DHHS publication
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration, National Center for Health Statistics; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Rockville, Md; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical personnel; Statistics; Medical Statistics; Medical care; Health facilities; Periodicals; Medical economics
Notes: Each issue emphasizes a different health-related topic, sometimes reflected in a distinctive subtitle (e.g. 1998 issue: Health, United States : with socioeconomic status and health chartbook). Subtitle varies according to title of Chartbook, <1996/97>- . Issues for 2002-2007 have subtitle: with Chartbook on trends in the health of Americans.

Issues for 2009- have companion publication titled:  In brief.

Latest issue consulted: 2009, published 2010.

Vols. for 1978- also called 3rd-

Some issues also available via the Internet from the NCHS web site (trend tables in Excel). Addresses as of 3/24/09: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm (current issue) and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/2010/2010.htm (archived issues); current access is available via PURLs.

Also issued on CD-ROM.

Vols. for 1976/77-1981 issued by: the National Center for Health Services Research; v. for 1975-1981 prepared by: the National Center for Health Statistics with the National Center for Health Services Research; 1982- by: the National Center for Health Statistics.

Includes selected highlights, which were also issued separately each year through <2001>, in a publication referred to, and often explicitly called a "Chartbook."

Information in: Health, United States also issued in several other publications or other versions.