cdc:82212 Health, United States, 2018 is the 42nd annual report on the health status of the nation, produced by NCHS and submitted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the President and the Congress of the United States. The report includes data from a variety of federal government and private-sector sources, organized around four major subject areas: health statusand determinants (i.e., life expectancy, infant mortality, leading causes of death, overdose deaths, teen births, preterm births, use of tobacco products, obesity, asthma, diabetes prevalence, hypertension, and functional limitations); health care utilization (i.e., childhood vaccination coverage, use of prescription drugs, and unmet medical needs); health care resources (i.e., availability of dentists and use of long-term care facilities); and health care expenditures and payers. For more information about NCHS and its programs, For more information about Health, United States, visit https://www.cdc.gov/nchs. visit https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm. CS312000 factsheet-hus-2018.pdf

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