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Figure 1-2 (See p. 4 in your text.) Public health achievements of the twentieth century and their effect on the leading causes of death and overall life expectancy of Americans The http://www.cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a series of reports on great public health achievements of the twentieth century; these reports and supporting material can be accessed from the CDC Web site http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm Celebrating a Century of Success. Data on the life expectancy and leading causes of death among Americans is available from the http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Look especially in the NCHS journal http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm National Vital Statistics Reports and the annual NCHS publication http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/hus.htm Health, United States. For information on life expectancy and quality of life around the world, visit the Web site for the http://www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization (WHO); check the most recent edition of their annual http://www.who.int/home/reports.html World Health Report series. Table 1-1 (See p. 5 in your text.) Leading Causes of Death in the United States Data on the leading causes of death among Americans is available from the http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Look especially in the NCHS journal http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm National Vital Statistics Reports. To see how the United States compares to other countries, visit the Web site for the http://www.who.int World Health Organization (WHO); check the most recent edition of their annual http://www.who.int/home/reports.html World Health Report series. For information on key health behaviors among Americans, visit the site for the http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which gives prevalence data for such behaviors as exercise and tobacco use for states and for the nation as a whole. Table 1-2 (See p. 6 in your text.) Actual Causes of Death Among Americans, 2000 Read the abstract of the study published in the Journal of American Medical Association at http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/10/1238. Figure 1-3 (See p. 6 in your text.) Quantity of life versus quality of life http://www.healthypeople.gov/ Healthy People 2010 is available online in a searchable format. Information on the life expectancy of Americans is available from the http://www.cdc.gov/nchs National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Look especially in the NCHS journal http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm National Vital Statistics Reports and the annual NCHS publication http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hus/hus.htm Health, United States. For information on life expectancy and quality of life around the world, visit the Web site for the http://www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization (WHO). Figure 1-4 (See p. 9 of your text.) Distribution of the U.S. population View the U.S. Census Bureau's data on the estimates of population by race, age, sex, and a variety of other categories at http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPeople?_sse=on. |