Resources for All States
The following resources provide state-specific information and statistics
focused on specific topics. These resources may be used for grantwriting,
research, and other activities to support rural health and human
services. Please also see the individual state
pages for key resources
specific to each state.
Tools
America's Health Rankings
Web site
Provides data and recommendations related to health risk behaviors and outcomes. Includes state-by-state snapshots.
American Red Cross Websites
Web site
Offers a map of the United States and a list of service delivery units with Web Sites. Users can also search for a local Red Cross chapter by zip code.
America’s Health Rankings: Our Nation At a Glance
Web site
Provides a 2009 health ranking report for each state. Ranking is comprised of 22 individual measures; 16 measure health determinants such as personal behaviors and 6 measure health outcomes.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Database
Provides access to reports, surveys, and fact sheets from the BRFSS, a telephone survey that tracks health risks in the United States. Data is available by state and for the nation.
Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors
Web site
Lists chronic diseases, risk factors, and preventive services by State.
CAH Financial Performance Indicators by State
Web site
State-level reports on the financial condition and performance of Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs).
Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI)
Web site
Designed to inform public health professionals and community members about state- and county-level health status indicators such as: causes of death, tobacco use, diet, physical activity, and drug and alcohol use. Available reports also include Healthy People 2010 targets and information on vulnerable populations, access to care, and much more.
Cooperative Extension System Offices
Web site
A listing of contact information for all USDA Cooperative Extension System Offices in the U.S. These offices provide practical and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.
Economic Impact of Family Physicians by State
Web site
Brief reports on the economic impact of family physicians for each state. Reports include state maps of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs).
Education: The State We're In
Web site
A comprehensive, state-by-state snapshot of education today in America. Seven of the most pressing education issues are explored in reports encompassing all 50 states. Individual state report cards provide a comprehensive look at education in each of the 50 states. Compares performance by ranking states from first to worst.
Farm Rescue and EMS: A State by State Directory
Web site
State-by-state list of farm rescue or response programs, Cooperative Extension Safety Specialists, and State EMS Training Coordinators.
Find Your Local National Safety Council Chapter
Web site
A directory of the National Safety Council's network of state chapters. These local offices conduct safety, health and environmental efforts at the community level, providing training, conferences, workshops, consultation, newsletters, updates and safety support materials.
Foundation Funding Guide: Child and Adolescent Nutrition and Physical Activity
Web site
Lists state and national foundations with an interest in child and adolescent nutrition and physical activity.
Health and Well-Being of Children: State-Level Data
Web site
State-level data on children's health status, health care access, safety, child care and other issues related to children's well-being.
Health Care Status Quo in Your State
Web site
Provides a map and a list of states that users can select to access the report on the state of health care and the state's need for health care reform.
Health, United States: State Data
Web site
Provides access to data from the Health, United States publication available by state. Includes data on births, deaths, health status, personnel, facilities, health care expenditures, and health care coverage.
Healthcare for Homeless Veterans Programs by State
Other
Serves as a directory of programs that address the healthcare needs of homeless veterans. Organized alphabetically by state and includes the District of Columbia. Listings offer the program name, location, full address, and phone number.
Hospital Service Coordinator Directory
Web site
Lists, by state, the Hospital Service Coordinators' name, affiliated VAMC (VA Medical Center) with their address, telephone, and fax numbers.
Housing Authority Websites
Web site
Provides lists of state and regional housing agencies.
HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse
Web site
Reporting and mapping tools providing access to HRSA program information, related health resources, and demographic data for reporting on HRSA activities. The data includes grants, scholarship and loan programs, designation of underserved areas, and service demonstration programs and integrates these with data acquired from external sources. Includes "HRSA in My Neighborhood" feature which provides quick access to a summary of HRSA's activities on a particular address. Internet Explorer 6.x is required.
KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
Web site
Provides child well-being data by state and county.
Local Community Resource Finder
Database
Provides an interactive map and database searchable by state and type of health and community resource. Categories include resources for youth and children, families, the military, and for veterans. Resulting lists include the name of the resource, its location, website and phone number. Also contains resources in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Medicaid Benefits: Services Covered, Limits, Copayments and Reimbursement Methodologies for 50 States, District of Columbia and the Territories
Database
State-by-state information on Medicaid benefits, searchable by state, benefit, and type of health care provider. Lists coverage for various services including dental, mental, and public health, Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and long term care services.
Medicare Certified Rural Health Clinics
Web site
Provides a list of all RHCs in each of the 50 states. Includes provider number, name, address, city-state-zip, phone number, and county.
MedlinePlus Go Local
Web site
Offers information about health services in local geographic areas, including hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, support groups, health screening providers and many others.
Mesothelioma & Asbestos Exposure Risks by State
Web site
Offers information about sites of potential asbestos exposure in the United States. Users can select a state from a map or an alphabetical list.
National Association for State Community Services Programs State Contacts
Web site
Provides contacts for state community services programs funded through the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program (DOE/WAP).
National Association of State Offices of Minority Health Directors
Web site
Lists contact information for directors of state offices of minority health.
National Guard: State Web Sites
Web site
Offers a map and a list of links to National Guard sites representing each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
National Healthcare Quality Report State Snapshots
Web site
Health care quality report for each state, based on the National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report.
National Substance Abuse Index
Web site
Provides a directory for resources related to dealing with addiction. Provides drug climate information for each state.
OAS States in Brief Reports
Web site
Contains reports that summarize the substance abuse and mental health issues within the designated state. Includes the prevalence of substance use and abuse, treatment resources, mental health indicators, and SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) grant funding. Browse by state or topic to access reports.
Office of Rural Health Policy Grants by State
Web site
State-by-state list of Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) grants. Includes information on funding awards for outreach grants, State Offices of Rural Health, the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program, and other grants funded by ORHP.
Oral Health Resources
Web site
Contains articles, fact sheets, and publications on oral health and water fluoridation. Includes state-by-state reports.
Premiums versus Paychecks: A Growing Burden for Workers
Web site
State-specific reports examine what rising health care costs and stagnant earnings mean for working families.
RUPRI State Profiles
Web site
Profiles of each state, with statistics describing the state's population, poverty, employment and other topics.
SBA State Economic Profiles
Web site
A tool that contains documents profiling the economic condition of small businesses in the United States, for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories.
State Data Center Program
Web site
Official sources of state-level demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. Includes links to each state data center.
State Department of Transportation Directory
Web site
Directory of state transportation web sites.
State Fact Sheets
Web site
Statistics on population, educational attainment, employment, income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each state.
State Health Facts Online
Database
The latest state-level data on demographics, household income, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation. Individual state profiles and 50-state comparisons. Includes statistics by state on medical malpractice and Medicare.
State Medicaid Fact Sheets
Web site
Allows you to customize your Medicaid fact sheet by comparing your state to the United States or to any other state.
State Profiles of Medicaid and SCHIP in Rural and Urban Areas
Web site
Provides state-level data from a range of sources on Medicaid and SCHIP, with an emphasis on program characteristics relevant to rural areas.
State Profiles of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Medicaid
Web site
Consists of a summary of each state's coverage of behavioral health in Medicaid and in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
State Profiles: Reforming the Health Care System
Web site
Compiles data from each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands into a full report on demographics, expenditures and financing, health status, utilization and quality of services, resources available, medicare, medicaid, health coverage and the uninsured, plus key trends. Data is current as of 2005, and individual reports are also available from this website for each of the fifty states.
State Scorecard 2009
Web site
An interactive U.S. map to view state-specific rankings and results compared to benchmarks, and to view the number of lives and dollars each state could save by achieving benchmark levels of performance.
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
Database
Locates drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs in each state as well as state substance abuse agencies.
Suicide State Data Fact Sheets
Web site
Individual state data fact sheets that include statistics on deaths by suicide, estimated hospitalized attempts, and data on medical costs, work loss costs, gender, race/ethnicity, age and method of suicide in the U.S.
Title V: A Snapshot of Maternal and Child Health
Web site
Presents data on maternal and child health from the 59 States and Jurisdictions that receive Title V Block Grant funds from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Regions
Web site
Displays a color-coded map showing the ten designated HHS regions in the United States and Territories. Includes links and contact information for each region.
USA Counties
Web site
Features county-level data. Demographic, economic, and governmental data are presented for the purpose of multi-county comparisons or single county profiles.
VA Facilities Locator & Directory
Web site
Offers a storehouse of facility and key staff information within 1347 VA facilities, maintained on a regular basis by editors and administrators nationwide throughout the VA network. Categorizes information for browsing by state and administration, as well as by viewing through an interactive map of the United States. Links to various VA services and policies are also available.
VA State Summary Fact Sheets
Web site
Provides links to each of the 50 states. Each state's page offers statistics related to veterans and their health care.
Why We Need Health Reform: State-by-State Fact Sheets
Web site
Provides state-by-state fact sheets showing the need for health reform in every state.
Maps & Map Collections
Food Stamp Program Map Machine
Interactive
Geographic coverage: United States
Interactive, web-based mapping utility that illustrates program participation and benefit levels down to the county level. Shows per capita participation, per capita benefits, changes from year to year, and more. The map's tools allow you to call up tabular data for the county, State, or Nation.
RAC Maps
Interactive
Geographic coverage: United States
National maps on a variety of rural health and human services topics. Maps can be customized to focus on a specified state or county and to show additional labels, boundaries and data, for use in grant applications, reports and other publications.
Summer Food Service Program Map Machine
Interactive
Geographic coverage: United States
Interactive mapping utility which integrates three different types of information--Census data, SFSP participation records, and Common Core Data--and provides visual displays of SFSP sponsors and sites in geographic relation to concentrated areas of child poverty. Also provides all the underlying data in tabular format for more in depth analysis. Displays maps and data for the entire Nation or a particular State, county, or neighborhood.
Documents, Reports and Other Publications
Almanac of Hunger and Poverty in America
Sponsoring organization: Feeding America
Provides national and state statistics on hunger and poverty. Includes an overview of federal nutrition programs.
Date: 2007
Grading the States: A Report on America's Health Care System for Serious Mental Illness
Sponsoring organization: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Overview of the characteristics of a high quality state mental health system, with policy recommendations. Provides a comprehensive grading of state adult public mental healthcare systems for each state. Includes discussion of states' rural mental health needs.
Date: 03 / 2006
Health in the Americas: United States of America
Sponsoring organization: Pan American Health Organization
Reports on the health status of persons living within the 50 States. Also includes social, political, economic, environment, and demographic information. Data is presented by age, race, and gender using narrative, charts, and graphs.
Date: 2007
Kids Count Data Book, 2008
Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends on the conditions of America’s children and families. Includes graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles.
Date: 06 / 2008
Profiles of Progress: State Health IT Initiatives
Sponsoring organization: National Association of State Chief Information Officers
Offers a compendium of Health Information Technology (HIT) efforts that focuses on measures state governments have initiated or endorsed through legislation, executive order, or by engaging in public/private or non-profit partnerships with outside organizations.
Date: 11 / 2006
Shortchanging America's Health: A State-By-State Look at How Federal Public Health Dollars Are Spent, 2006
Author(s): Jeffrey Levi, Laura M. Segal, Chrissie Juliano, Michael J. Earls
Sponsoring organization: Trust for America's Health
Reviews key health statistics and a range of federal public health funds that each state receives.
Date: 06 / 2006
State Handbook of Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Indicators, Seventh Edition - 2008
Author(s): David Baer
Sponsoring organization: AARP Public Policy Institute
Provides information about state economic, demographic, and fiscal conditions. Data available on topics related to population, poverty rates, per capita state personal income, state and local revenues, expenditures, tax rates, and property tax relief programs.
Date: 2008
State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Provides information on fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption, policy, and environmental support within each state. Addresses issues associated with nutritionally underserved areas.
Date: 09 / 2009
