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Notice to Readers: Publication of Health, United States, 2001
with Urban and Rural Health Chartbook
CDC has published Health, United States, 2001 with Urban and Rural
Health Chartbook, the 25th edition of the annual report on the nation's health. This
report includes 148 trend tables organized around four broad subject areas: health status
and determinants, health-care use, health-care resources, and health-care
expenditures. Disparities in health by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status are presented
in several tables.
This year's report also includes the Urban and Rural Health
Chartbook. Communities at different urbanization levels differ in their
demographic, environmental, economic, and social characteristics, and these
characteristics influence the magnitude and types of health problems that communities face.
The chartbook presents population characteristics, health risk factors, health
status indicators, and health-care access measures for residents of counties grouped by
five urbanization levels (from the most urban to the most rural). Of U.S.
residents examined, those who have the best health measures are residents of fringe
counties of large metropolitan areas. In comparison, the urbanization level associated
with adverse health measures is less consistent. Residents of the most rural counties
fare worst on some measures (e.g., motor vehicle traffic-related injury mortality)
and residents of the most urban counties fare worst on other measures (e.g., homicide).
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