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1 Utah health status update /Utah. Dept. of HealthPeriodic updates of health status information on various subjects.
2 1996 Health Status Survey - Health Insurance CoverageUtah Department of Health, Bureau of Surveillance and AnalysisHealth care in America is financed primarily through a mix of public and private insurance, but many still lack financial access to basic services and financial protection against the high costs of illness. Utah has recently initiated several health insurance policy reforms to expand coverage to uni...
3 Bureau of Epidemiology Annual Report 1997Utah Dept. of Health. Bureau of EpidemiologyAnnual disease reports.
4 Utah health status update: health insurance coverage in Utah /The 1996 Utah Health Status Survey was a random digit dialing telephone survey of over 6,300 households in Utah. It included questions on various aspects of health status, health care utilization, and access to health care. This health status update contains excerpts of a recent report on health ins...
5 Utah health status update: diabetes care in Utah: a 1996 survey of primary care physicians /The mission of the Utah Department of Health Diabetes Control Program includes helping clinicians to improve the care they provide to persons with diabetes in Utah. To guide that effort, a mail and telephone survey of Utah primary care providers was conducted to obtain information on clinicians kno...
6 Leading causes of death by age and sexLiu, Diane; Snyder, Darryl; Shah, Gulzar; Bangerter, Kim; Rolfs, Robert T.This report presents the leading causes of death for men and women in seven age groups (<1 year, 1-14 years, 15-24 years, 24-44 years, 45-64 years, 65-84 years, 85 years and over) during the five-year period, 1991-1995. For selected causes, trends are examined for the ten-year period, 1986-1995, and...
7 Utah health status update: Utahns, age 65-84, by sex, 1994 /About 155,000 Utahns are age 65 to 84; they account for about 30,000 hospitalizations annually and about 5,000 die each year. Nearly all have health insurance coverage (most through Medicare).
8 Utah health status update: leading causes of death in Utah by age and sex /Preventing premature death is one of the most important goals of health care and of public health. Examining the leading causes of death and considering the cost and effectiveness of available prevention methods are, together, a first step toward appropriately allocating scarce health care and publi...
9 Utah's Healthy People 2000 : Health Status Indicators /Utah. Office of Public Health Data.; Utah. Bureau of Surveillance and Analysis.; Utah. Office of Strategic Planning and Evaluation.Assessing the health status of the population is a fundamental responsibility of public health. Such an assessment is an important guide for public health policy development and for evaluating existing public health programs. The 18 Health Status Indicators for the Year 2000 were developed as part o...
10 Utah health status update: Utah's Healthy People 2000 Health Status Indicators /A recent Utah Department of Health report, Utah's Healthy People 2000 Health Status Indicators, reviewed Utah's health status based on the 18 Healthy People 2000 health status indicators. Those indicators were developed to provide a comprehensive and understandable view of community health. This upd...
11 Utah health status update: health plan enrollee satisfaction, 1996 /An important measure of the health care system's performance is how satisfied individual consumers are with their health plans and the care they receive. The Utah Health Data Committee, in partnership with the Division of Health Care Financing (Medicaid) and five Health Maintenance Organizations (HM...
12 Utah health status update: hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions /Rates of preventable hospitalizations can help to identify problems in the primary care delivery system for an area or population. A recent Utah Department of Health report, Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Utah, examined hospitalization rates for eighteen such conditions...
13 Utah health status update: maternal and infant health /The health of women during their reproductive years is important not only for the well-being of those women, but also for the health and well-being of children they may have. Utah s high birth rate and the high percentage of children under age 18 make attention to the health of mothers and potential...
14 Report on Maternal and Infant Health in Utah /Utah. Division of Community and Family Health Services.The importance of healthy habits and lifestyle choices cannot be emphasized enough in promoting healthy childbearing. Healthful habits during the childbearing years improve life-long health and may prevent premature death for women. Daily exercise, well-balanced diet, avoidance of tobacco and alcoho...
15 Utah health status update: unintentional injuries in Utah /Unintentional injuries, formerly called accidents , are the leading cause of death for Utahns from 1 to 45 years of age. Injuries also cause substantial disability, and health care expenditures. The name change, from accidents to unintentional injuries, was a conscious choice made to emphasize thei...
16 Utah health status update: chronic care in Utah /Chronic conditions, those that cannot be cured and often last for years, are an enormous health challenge for Utah and the U.S. As the life expectancy of Americans has increased during the 20th century, these conditions have become the most important causes of death and disability.
17 Utah health status update: health plan performance /This Health Status Update contains highlights from the Utah Health Data Committee s first report on HMO performance. That report is intended to provide consumers, purchasers, and health plans with accurate, comparative, and standardized data to guide choices among health plans in Utah. The performan...
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