Responses to Recent Health Policy Data Requests
As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, the National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information that is often used to help guide actions and policies to improve the Nation’s health. In carrying out our responsibility to share fully our data and analyses, we are making available summaries of staff responses to recent requests for data on health, determinants of health, health care access and use, and other topics of current interest.
Topics of Interest:
Data Releases
- Number of births with natality data completeness as a percentage of provisional monthly count: United States and each state, January-November 2021 and 2022, provisional and percent change in births 2021-2022 [PDF – 236 KB] (1/2023)
- Provisional number of deaths among pregnant females, by underlying cause of death — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2021 [PDF – 77 KB] (10/2022)
- Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program assistance, visits, and activities in residential care communities [PDF – 59 KB] (12/2021)
- Number, crude and age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, hydrocone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone, by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services region: 2018 [PDF – 115 KB] (5/3/2021)
- Percent of drug overdose deaths by quarter, by sex, age, and race and Hispanic origin: United States 2019-Q1 through 2020-Q3 [PDF – 26 KB] (4/14/2021)