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Title: The Cost of Health Care in Report of the year 2000 Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care to Governor Angus King Summary: An analysis of health care costs, factors that contribute to the rising costs, and some potential approaches to stabilize costs. Contains written summaries as well as charts and graphs of relating to the above mentioned topic areas. The information is statewide and does not break any of the data into smaller regions.
Title: Profiling Uninsured Persons in Three Maine Counties Results of a Household Survey (August 2000) MaineHealth Access Project - Sponsored by MaineHealth and DHS Summary: The study reports findings from a
random phone survey designed to develop a demographic profile of the uninsured
population and to estimate the rate of health insurance coverage in
Title: A Primer on Health Care Coverage
in The Summary: The document summarizes an assessment
of the health care needs of Uses data and written summary to answer
following questions. How do most
Title: Asthma Status Report (Maine 2002) 35 pages Summary: Contains data around a number of
different topics related to Asthma in
Title: Women and Cardiovascular Health:
An Action Plan for Summary: Made through a collaboration
of the Maine Women's Health Campaign and the Maine Cardiovascular Health
Council, this document aims to improving the cardiovascular health of women
in
Contains US census data. There is also
a link for State and County quick facts which contains statistics on
http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup/88167692
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet US Census Bureau Basic Fact Finder Contains popular tables and maps for the
Title: Project of Summary: Provides data on social economic,
physical and educational wellbeing of children in
Title: Summary: population based sample survey
administered to http://www.state.me.us/portal/living/health_safety/children.html This page has a number of links to sources
of child health data for the state of
http://www.state.me.us/dhs/bohodr/prams.htm PRAMS is an on-going, population-based surveillance system designed to identify and monitor selected maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after pregnancy among women who have recently given birth to a live infant. Data collected monthly from women using a mail/telephone survey.
http://www.healthweb.state.me.us/report_births.asp Neonates born in Shows number of babies born in
Forum on Child and Family Statistics This web site offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
Connects you to the entire Maine Kids Count 2002 Data Book as well as the 2001 and 2000 editions. Contains data from national state and county level. The book is in PDF format.
http://www.aecf.org/cgi-bin/kc2002.cgi?action=profile&area=maine 2002 Kids Count Data Book Online Has some of the data from the 2002 Kids Count Data Book. Compares state and national data.
Title: Healthy Maine 2001 a Report Card on Maine's Leading Health Indicators 21 pages Contains
Title: Health Planning Report for Northern, Eastern and The Summary: Document shows results of a Health
Care Needs and Service Planning study for northern, eastern and central
Title: Community Health Profiles (2000) 22-23 pages per county The ten counties of southern, central and
western Summary: Different section for each of
the 10 counties. Each section contains introduction, demographic
information, data from the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
Indicators and a community resources section. The
Health , disease and risk behavior data binder Binder containing health, disease and risk
behavior data in four major documents. Community Health Profile 2000,
Healthy Horizons Community Health Profile, Getting Healthy's Community Health
Profile and the Health Planning report for Northern, Eastern and
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/justiceresearch/databook.htm/htm Maine Crime and Justice Databook (**Site was not working***)
http://www.state.me.us/dps/cim/crime_in_maine/cim.htm Statistics on Crime in
http://www.maine.gov/portal/education/k12.html State of
http://www.state.me.us/education/data/homepage.htm Maine Department of Contains statistics in the areas of staff, pupils, financial and other resources.
Title: Directory of Economic Development
Programs & Services in Summary: This is a directory of the services
of
Title: Mid-Maine Community Assessment Task Force Citizen Survey (August 21, 2001) 35 pages Final Results and Analysis: By Mark H. Kavanaugh Summary: A community phone survey of 184 citizens from the greater Waterville/Skowhegan areas. Survey asked questions around the topics of employment, financial status, education level, availability of services, environment, availability or the arts, recreation. Shows charts and graphs of the results.
Title: Measures of Growth (2001) 28pages Performance Measures and Benchmarks to Achieve Sustainable Long Term Economic growth for Maine Seventh report of the Maine Economic Growth Council (prepared by the Maine Development Foundation) Summary: Contains data on over 58 different
economic related issues in the form of graphs and written summaries.
Compares
Title: Sustain Focuses on issues concerning the sustainable
development of Contains a wide variety of statistical
information that relates to economic for both
http://www.state.me.us/spo/economics/ The State Planning Office
http://www.state.me.us/spo/economics/economics/megraph.php The State Planning Office spreadsheet resource
http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/neei/neei.htm The Federal Reserve Bank of
Provides access to current labor market and demographic statistics.
Title: Summary: (project was done in response to
reported cancer cluster) Purpose of the assessment was to identify health
issues that might be of concern to
http://www.state.me.us/dhs/bohodr/brfsspge.htm (BRFSS Data) The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS) collects, analyzes and disseminates data from an ongoing
telephone survey of
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm A very wide variety of national data on different health topics are available.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/states/index.htm Links to State Profiles Select a state to access information such as fact sheets, funding, legislation, reports, state-based programs and projects, statistics, and data. Contains statewide information.
The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation - State Health Facts Online Contains a very wide variety of health
data. Majority of the data is from 1999 and it compares the
http://www.emh.org/community/index.htm Looks at a variety of health data from seven
different
Maine Heart Health Database Directory
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/01news/hus01.htm Health and Human Services Issues Report on
Community Health in Rural, Urban Areas Central Maine Regional Information/Sponsored
by the
Governor’s Children’s Cabinet Maine Marks For Children, Families and Communities - Leading by Results February 2001 Maine Marks is a set of social indicators
that reflect the wellbeing of
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HRQOL/ Health Related Quality of Life Data from the CDC Annual Trend Data Nation wide or by state for 1993 - 2001
Compiled 2/3/03 by David Pied, Health Educator, Community Health Improvement, MaineGeneral Health.
http://www.healthweb.state.me.us/report_inpatient_percentage.asp 1998 Hospital Inpatient Discharge and Patient Population Summary Shows total discharges, total patients and % unduplicated for all Maine Hospitals in 1998
Contains links to MaineHealth, MaineGeneral Health and Eastern Maine Health homepage and data charts.
http://www.kff.org/content/2002/4007/ The Kaiser Commission of Medicaid and Uninsured / Health Insurance in US: 2000 Data Update This chart book provides year 2000 data on health insurance coverage, with special attention to the uninsured. It includes trends and major shifts in coverage and a profile of the uninsured population.
http://www.maine.gov/bds/osa/data/pdrug_alpha.xls Treatment Data Systems (TDS) Admissions by Primary Problem Contains admissions data for drug use in
http://www.maine.gov/bds/osa/data/datastats.htm Contains prevention and treatment data,
Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey (MYDUS), Safe and
http://enigma.portlandwebworks.com/maineosa/survey/home.php Shows results of the Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey (MYDUS) Data can be viewed for the state as a whole, by region (the state gets broken into 3 regions) or by county. |