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Notice to Readers: Publication of Health, United States, 2004 with
Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans
CDC has published Health, United States, 2004 with Chartbook on Trends in the Health of
Americans, the 28th edition of the annual report on the nation's health. The report includes 153 trend tables organized around four subject areas: health status and determinants, health-care use, health-care resources, and health-care expenditures. Information regarding racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health is presented in several tables.
The 2004 chartbook included in the report assesses the state of the nation's health and how it has changed over time,
both positively and negatively, by presenting trends and current information on selected determinants and measures of health status. Determinants of health include demographic factors, health-insurance coverage, health behaviors, and preventive health care; measures of health status focus on trends in mortality and limitations of activity caused by chronic health
conditions. Although the health of persons overall in the United States has improved, the health of certain populations has lagged behind. This year's chartbook also includes a special section on prescription drugs, which have become an increasingly
important component of health care.
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